Cultural Differences
Matching Exercise
Match each utterance with its conversational function.
- Asking someone for their opinion about a topic
- Delaying strategies
- Presenting a number of arguments
- Giving your opinion about a topic
- Agreeing
- Disagreeing
- Countering
- Logical argument
- Clarification
- Expressing solutions and alternatives
1. If we assume that everybody from a particular culture behaves in the same way, we're likely to misunderstand individuals.
2. I agree that learning about other cultures can reduce misunderstandings.
3. How do you think people should respond to cultural differences?
4. But isn't it also important to recognise that individuals don't necessarily behave according to cultural stereotypes?
5. I think cultural differences should be approached with curiosity rather than suspicion.
6. When you talk about cultural differences, are you mainly thinking about differences in behaviour?
7. That's something I've had to think about quite a lot.
8. Perhaps schools and workplaces could provide more opportunities for people from different backgrounds to meet and work together.
9. I don't agree that people from different cultures always misunderstand one another.
10. People from different cultures may have different attitudes towards family, time, politeness, food and personal space.