Developing intercultural communicative skills

GUIDELINES FOR TEACHER-MADE MATERIALS
Worksheets and work cards should:

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  Be neat, clean with level lines of neat writing. clear margins, Afferent components well-spaced.
  
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  Begin with short and clear instructions and appropriate, in the learners’ mother tongue. Usually including an example.
  
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  Be clear and attractive to look at: have a balanced and varied layout, using underlining and other forms of emphasis to draw attention to significant items, possibly using color and graphs illustration.
  
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  be clearly do able by the learners on their own;
  
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  (optionally include a self-check facility
  

GLOSSARY
cultural adjective WAY OF LIFE
1. relating to the habits, traditions and beliefs of a society
The USA is often accused of cultural imperialism.
Australia has its own cultural identity , which is very different from that of Britain.
cultural diversity/differences
cultural heritage (= ways of living and thinking that have existed for a long time in a society)
culturally adverb
a culturally diverse society
culture noun WAY OF LIFE
1. [ C or U ] the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular time
youth/working-class culture
She's studying modern Japanese language and culture.
lifestyle noun [ C ]
someone's way of living; the things that a person or particular group of people usually do
He doesn't have a very healthy lifestyle.
She needs a pretty high income to support her lifestyle.
an alternative lifestyle
westernized , UK also westernised adjective
having a culture like North America and western Europe
As the political emphasis shifts, Bulgaria will inevitably become more westernized.