Lead-in Activities Tips In America,a person's success is based on how much money he makes.And Americans are not afraid of showing their confidence. To most Chinese,it'd be the responsibility of the company to decide the salary according to the employee's performance. THIS MAY BE DUE TO CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
Lead-in Activities In America, a person’s success is based on how much money he makes. And Americans are not afraid of showing their confidence. To most Chinese, it’d be the responsibility of the company to decide the salary according to the employee’s performance. Tips THIS MAY BE DUE TO CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
Lead-in Activities Read Discuss Case Study Read the following cases on cultural gaps,and then discuss with your partners what could be the problem and what you would do in the situation. Case 1 Dear Jim, Last night I invited my Western friend Jane home for dinner.My family prepared meal in honor of our guest,with lots of local Chinese specialties.However, soon after the meal began,we all noticed that Nancy wasn't eating very much,so we encouraged her to eat more
Read the following cases on cultural gaps, and then discuss with your partners what could be the problem and what you would do in the situation. Lead-in Activities Case Study Case 1 Dear Jim, Last night I invited my Western friend Jane home for dinner. My family prepared meal in honor of our guest, with lots of local Chinese specialties. However, soon after the meal began, we all noticed that Nancy wasn’t eating very much, so we encouraged her to eat more. Read & Discuss
Lead-in Activities Each time we urged her to eat more,she would comment on how wonderful all the food was,and would eat a little bit more,but she still didn't eat very much. We have trouble understanding why Jane was so reluctant to eat anything.Was the problem that Westerners don't like Chinese food?
Lead-in Activities Each time we urged her to eat more, she would comment on how wonderful all the food was, and would eat a little bit more, but she still didn’t eat very much. We have trouble understanding why Jane was so reluctant to eat anything. Was the problem that Westerners don’t like Chinese food?
Lead-in Activities Case 2 Dear Jim, I graduated from university several years ago and now I am a university English teacher.Last week my department sent me to the airport to meet a visiting American professor.When I met him at the airport he had two heavy suitcases and some smaller bags.He was an older man,in his sixties I think,and we couldn't find a luggage cart,so I wanted to help him with his luggage.Several times I offered to take one of the heavy suitcases from him and each time he
Dear Jim, I graduated from university several years ago and now I am a university English teacher. Last week my department sent me to the airport to meet a visiting American professor. When I met him at the airport he had two heavy suitcases and some smaller bags. He was an older man, in his sixties I think, and we couldn’t find a luggage cart, so I wanted to help him with his luggage. Several times I offered to take one of the heavy suitcases from him and each time he Case 2 Lead-in Activities
Lead-in Activities insisted that he could carry the suitcase,so at one point when we stopped and he put the suitcase down, I just picked one up.When I picked up the suitcase he said "I can handle these myself,"but I thought he was just being polite so I went off toward the van with the suitcase.However,when we got to the van he seemed annoyed with me,and he hardly spoke at all to me the whole way to our school. Why did he get upset with me?Was it wrong to try to help him with his luggage?
insisted that he could carry the suitcase, so at one point when we stopped and he put the suitcase down, I just picked one up. When I picked up the suitcase he said “I can handle these myself,” but I thought he was just being polite so I went off toward the van with the suitcase. However, when we got to the van he seemed annoyed with me, and he hardly spoke at all to me the whole way to our school. Why did he get upset with me? Was it wrong to try to help him with his luggage? Lead-in Activities