BRGIDGING THE CULTURE GAP

Bridging the culture gap
Summary
Title
Welcome to San Francisco
Vocabulary
New words
Language Focus: Modal verbs
Note
Note
Summary
Writing
Speaking: giving talks and presentation
Communication skills at work
Welcome to San Francisco
What do you know about San Francisco?
Why don’t we take a trip to this beautiful country?
Read the description of San Francisco. Add information to this table:
Vocabulary
American English –British English
Downtown/city centre
Shopping mall/shopping centre
Pavement/side walk
Flat/apartment
Elevator/lift
Taxi/cab
Freeway/motorway
Gas/petrol
American English and British English spelling is sometimes different
American English:
Center
Traveling
Color
Practise

Can you find any other
example of AmE
spelling in the San
Francisco text?


British English:
Centre
Travelling
Colour
Practice
New words
Peaceful
Cosmopolitan
Extensive
Stunning
Skyscraper
Elocution
Boom

Language Focus:
Modal verbs





What else must I be careful about?

I must go now!




Do I have to be on time
for everything?
You have to be on time for meetings and business appointments.




Do I need to know about
American popular culture?

You need to think clearly and carefully.


You mustn’t ask questions that are too personal.
You don’t have to arrive exactly on time for parties and social occasions.


You needn’t worry. In American business culture, they stick to the rules.
“Need”: modal verb
You don’t need to spend a long time on social formalities.
“Need”: ordinary verb
Note:
Must usually expresses the personal opinion of the speaker about what is necessary or obligation.
Have to usually expresses general obligation outside the control of the speaker, or an obligation based on a rule or law.
Need to is used in both contexts to express necessity.
Note:
Mustn’t is used to express a necessity or obligation not to do something.
Don’t have to is used to express the personal opinion about not to do something.
Needn’t is used to express no necessity or obligation to do something.

Writing
Task1:
Describe your town or city.
Task 2:
Give your opinion of the advantages and disadvantages of call centres and international outsourcing.
Speaking :
giving talks and presentation
What do you need to do to give a successful talk or presentation?

Good preparation?
Be confident?
Nonverbal
communication?
Content?
Communication skills at work
Giving talks and presentation:
Preparation
Signposting language
Delivery

Preparation: six key points
Objectives
Audience
Content
Organization
Visual information
Practice
Signposting language
I’m going to talk about…
First, second, third, finally…
Let’s start with…
Is that clear?
As you know that…
That’s a good point.
Thanks for your attention………..
Delivery :key points
Nerves...
.......
Practice
Give your talk or
presentation to
the rest of the class
on a topic of your choice.
Thanks for your attention!