The Toolkit for Culture and Communication

VIDEO

INTRODUCTION

BY DR. CAROL ARCHER

If you wish to use the introduction by Dr. Archer, it is suggested that

you

prepare the students beforehand. Immediately below are some exercises to

prepare the students for Dr. Archer's introduction. For these beginning levels

you may choose to simply use the introduction of the culture bump guides,

beginning

followed by the Spaceship Perception exercise, the Asian classroom

and the map matching exercise.

Vocabulary Words

Toolkit - A box for tools.

Dad - father

Tools - Things that help a person to do a job.

Master Mechanic - a person who is very good to work on cars or trucks

Ivy -A type of vine or plant.

Craft - a job

Module - a chapter

On a daily basis - each day

Stumbling block to - problems

Expert guides - professional leaders

To acquire - to get

To invite - to ask someone to do something or to go with you

Childhood - the time of being a child

Knowledge - what you know

Journey - to go somewhere

Create - to make, to build

Encounter - to meet

Relationship - to know another person very well

Skill - to do something well

Alone - by yourself

Choose one of the vocabulary words above to match each picture

The Video: A Summary

In the video, Dr. Archer talks about the Toolkit for Culture and

Communication. She says the Toolkit is like the Toolkit of her father.

Her father was a Master mechanic. He worked on cars and went to

many places in his car. This Toolkit is your Toolkit. You use this

Toolkit to understand other cultures and to live better in the United

States or other countries. You learn to understand your "culture bumps"

(when your culture is different from American culture or other people's

culture.). You learn what to do when you have a culture bump. You

learn to understand yourself and to help yourself feel better. You learn

how to make friends from all cultures. In the video, you have expert

guides to help you learn these things. The expert guides are Mazen

from Syria, Buki from Venezuela, Eric from Taiwan, Josh from the USA,

Katie from Korea and Jama from Somalia.

Now, read along as your teacher reads the introduction first. Listen for

the vocabulary words. ALTERNATE: Write the vocabulary words on cards

and

have students raise the card as they hear it used.

Here are more vocabulary words: