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. How do you think people should respond to cultural differences?
2. That's something I've had to think about quite a lot.
3. People from different cultures may have different attitudes towards family, time, politeness, food and personal space.
4. I think cultural differences should be approached with curiosity rather than suspicion.
5. I agree that learning about other cultures can reduce misunderstandings.
6. I don't agree that people from different cultures always misunderstand one another.
7. But isn't it also important to recognise that individuals don't necessarily behave according to cultural stereotypes?
8. If we assume that everybody from a particular culture behaves in the same way, we're likely to misunderstand individuals.
9. When you talk about cultural differences, are you mainly thinking about differences in behaviour?
10. Perhaps schools and workplaces could provide more opportunities for people from different backgrounds to meet and work together.
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