1. Which countries have you visited as a tourist? Which countries would you like to visit?
2. What famous attractions have you seen?
3. Which was your favorite, and why?
4. Have you ever had a holiday that was “different”?
Writing
Describe different types of holidays.
Project work
Surf the Internet. Choose any country, city or any interesting place and make fact file of this place. Make presentations.
Internet resources:
http://www.globaldetail.com
http://www.euromonitor.com
http://www.peopleandplanet.net/section
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/uk.html
Lesson 2.Business trip
Warm up
I. Discuss with your partner.
· How often do you go to business trip?
· Is it difficult to live and work abroad? What is your opinion?
· What sort of things do you think might be different between two cultures?
· How often do you have to travel for professional purposes?
· Who organizes your travel arrangements?
· Has there ever been a major problem with your travel arrangements?
II. Business travel quiz
1. The best thing about business trips is that they are a good opportunity to:
a) get away from the usual work routine and meet new people
b) do new business
c) get away from family problems
2. Visiting foreign companies is a chance to:
a) Sample new food, learn about another culture, and see things from another perspective
b) promote your own company
c) put stereotypes to the test
3. Before going on a trip I usually:
a) read guide books on the area I’m going to visit
b) learn a few key words in the local language
c) fill my laptop with all the data I need to do business successfully
4. When I’m away I ring home:
a) at least every day
b) once during the trip
c) never
5. When you go on a business trip what do you miss most?
a) your partner
b) colleagues
c) TV
d) food
6. When on business expenses do you ever:
a) buy your hosts a lot of gifts?
b) go to expensive restaurants?
c) exaggerate your expenses a little so that you can buy a few extra things?
Reading.
I. Skim the text to grasp the general idea. Think of the most suitable heading. Scan the text paying attention to the words in bold.
Living and working abroad would be really easy if everyone spoke the same way and behaved in the same way. But, as soon as you leave your own culture it quickly becomes clear that things are not the same. There are small and large differences between cultures. And how well you are able to deal with these differences will affect how good your experience will be.
When people go into another cultural environment some of the things that can be different for them are such things as the verbal communication style that can be radically different. And we're not just talking about a different language but literally the way that we use verbal communication.
Secondly, the non-verbal communication, body language, the gestures and the things that we do as part of our communication.
Things like time. Do we see time as a linear process with a fixed series of events following each other, or is time something much looser, much more flexible?
Whatever the differences working abroad might cause, there are millions of people working abroad right now, experiencing and enjoying life in a different culture. But what's it like the first time you arrive in a new country?
People are curious, or they might feel I don't know very much what to do and I want to have the equivalent of a gap year. I want to experience other cultures and then once you know, you've had some familiarity working in a foreign culture you can think about whether you want to go back to own.
Another reason for going is where people really want to go and improve themselves. Where the situation that they are in their countries may not give them the scope for their ambitions and of course many people to go and work abroad for those reasons - to find a place where they can fulfill themselves.
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