1 salad 木须肉 steak What’s different?

2 salad 木须肉 steak Cultural Difference

3 Planning a Visit to Miami Charlie Steve Paul Questions before listening? Who? When? Where? What? Why? How?

4 Planning a Visit to Miami

5 Miami Beach is a strip of miles of fine golden sand with emerald waters. People flock to Miami for business, sun, sand, beaches, and entertainment - this place really rocks!

6 Planning a Visit to Miami Charlie Steve Paul Reach agreement?

7 They are talking about how…

8 Charlie Steve Paul Planning a Visit to Miami Flying is too expensive.

9 Charlie Steve Paul Planning a Visit to Miami

10 Charlie Steve Paul Planning a Visit to Miami can’t fall asleep too uncomfortable

11 Charlie Steve Paul Planning a Visit to Miami won’t go by bus seats: too small Room: not enough for my leg

12 Charlie Steve Paul Too old to take on a long trip Rent a car? Too expensive Share the expense Won’t cost too much

13 Charlie Steve Paul How long? On the road 2 or 3 days Too much time spend in car Enough time? New semester to start Take turns driving & sleeping

14 Charlie Steve Paul A good place: Very comfortable Wear casual clothes Inexpensive Good food At home Terrible!

15 What’s in the different Culture?

16 obese huge size/very fat pay more for one more seat false diet/unhealthy junk food

17 They can travel by…

18 They can travel by…  driving one’s own car  renting a car  Make a reservation  Take a shuttle bus to the company at airport  Pick up the car at the parking lot  Drive the car with the help of GPS  Return the car in 5 minutes

19 share the expense 2 or 3 days on the road take turns driving and sleeping The new semester is going to start on Jan. 15.  winter vacation (from Christmas to Jan. 10 around)  summer vacation (from the early June or July to early September)  spring break (early March)

20 What Friendship Means to Americans? Listening Task 2

21 What Culture? Americans are always talking. Silence makes most Americans uncomfortable. Talk about the weather > encounter a lapse in conversation. Americans are friendly to everyone Don’t mistake friendliness for friendship. Don’t mistake friendliness for physical attraction. Friendly but not necessary interested in dating you.

22 A Dialogue Listening Task 3

23 Be yourself and act naturally. Arrive the host’s home on time or a few minutes later. Bring a small but not expensive gift. Get Americans to talk about themselves, if you don’t know what to say. What’s cultural?

24 BIG family FAT food GREEK lifestyle

25 Toula Portokalos is 30, Greek, and works in her family's restaurant, Dancing Zorba's, in Chicago. Toula met Ian Miller, a high school English teacher; they date secretly for a while before her family finds out. All her father Gus wants is for her to get married to a nice Greek boy.

26 Toula’s family keeps their Greek way of life.

27 Toula’s family keeps their Greek way of life.

28 When the two cultures encountered, …

29 Father’s speech at the reception party

30 Melting Pot Salad Bowl Mosaic

31 Assimilation segregation in housing and schools socioeconomic inequality prejudice Intermarriage 4 dimensions

32 ♪ all the ingredients are mixed together. ♪ Yet they never lose their shape, form or identity. ♪ Together, however, the ingredients make up a unity. ♪ They may be covered with the same dressing, but the green vegetables, tomatoes, lettuce and eggs can all be seen for what they are.

33 Immigrant populations within the United States are not being blended together in one "pot", but rather they are transforming American Society into a truly multicultural mosaic. We are fruit!

34 learning a foreign language is understanding the cultural difference.