6. Read the text once again and answer the questions.

1. What is culture according to Gary Wederspahn definition? Do you agree with it? If not say why?

2. What is “understanding foreign culture”?

3. What is being narrow-minded according to the text and what do you think of it personally?

4. Can people predict and expect their behavior?

5. Why culture is often compared to an ice-berg?

6. Give some examples of cultural behavior.

7. What are the main steps of culture analysis?

8. What makes you aware and more sensitive to differences?

9. How should the culture be treated?

Writing

Make up the summary of the text

Grammar spot

1. An adjective is a part of speech, which modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying words. An adjective usually precedes the noun or the pronoun which it modifies. In the following examples, the highlighted words are adjectives:

• Some people can be regarded as right and wrong in different societies.

Mr. Smith demonstrated rather irritating manners.

Understanding culture is also a real challenge for international businesses.

The colors of the picture are dark and dank.

You become aware of a particular behavior but have not yet tried to do it yourself?

Cultural conditioning is present in every culture, but the specific behaviors that people have, the precise content of their conditioning, is different from group to group.

• Some nouns, many pronouns, and many participle phrases can also act as adjectives. In the sentence “Eleanor listened to the muffled sounds of the radio hidden under her pillow, for example, both highlighted adjectives are past participles.

• Grammarians also consider articles ("the," "a," "an") to be adjectives.

• Adjectives can be simple, compound and derivative. Simple adjectives have no suffixes.

For ex.: small маленький, short короткий, red красный, black черный.

• Derivative or compound adjectives have either suffixes or prefixes or both. The most widely spread are negative prefixes: un and in. They give an opposite meaning to the word: happy- счастливый, unhappy- несчастный, known- известный, unknown-неизвестный,legal-законный, illegal незаконный и.т.д.

• Some adjectives end in –ed and have the same form as the past participle of a verb (e.g. thrilled, relieved, terrified). They are used to describe people’s feeling. The adjectives normally follow be or other verbs like feel, seem, look etc.)

She was excited going to the theatre.

The both looked astonished, when they heard the news.

He seemed to be very depressed.

2. Find out different types of adjectives in the text and make up 10 sentences with them. Unit 3. What is to be a Man of Culture?

Lead-in

• What does it mean to you “being a cultured person?”

• When and where you realized that you belong to the cultural society?

• Who helped you to develop your personality culturally? Parents? Teachers? Some other people?

• How often do you visit exhibitions? Go to the theatre, to the concerts? What is your favorite genre of music?

• Who is your favorite writer? Do you like reading? Which books do you prefer to read-electronic or paper ones?

• Do like watching films? What are your favorite ones?

Reading and understanding

1. You are going to read several texts which contain some tips how to become a person of culture. Before reading analyze what you already know (K) and what you want (W) to know on this issue. After reading decide what you learnt (L) and fill K-W-L chart.

What do I KNOW (K)	What do I WANT to know (W)	What did I LEARNT (L)