Developing intercultural communicative skills

Activity 2. Guess the distinctive collocations and idioms noted in Nigeria


Example Provide Meaning
Senior
Wash mouth
Morning meal
Baby lawyer
Hear French
Declare a surplus
Take in
Give me chance/ way
I am not financial


Activity 3. Find out the meanings of Nigerian words.

1. 
   Bush meat: ‘We will hunt some bush-meat’
   
2. 
   White-cap chiefs: senior chiefs in Lago whose rank is shown by the white cap
   
3. 
   Environment: ‘This environment is nice’.
   
4. 
   At now: ‘They have not arrived at now.’
   
5. 
   Off-head
   
6. 
   To take the light
   
7. 
   Social wake-keeping
   
8. 
   To wet: ‘I will wet my plants’
   
9. 
   Globe: ‘Can you change the globe, please!’
   
10. 
    To land one’s speech
    
11. 
    Juju music
    

Lesson 13
English as a foreign language (e.g. Uzbekistan and other CIA countries)

Handout 2. Find equivalent of these proverbs and sayings in Uzbek.
Don’t take gold, take knowledge; knowledge is gold.
Everything will end.
Do not say "Gop" until you have jumped over the barrier.
A man who doesn't want to be a general is a bad soldier.
Knowing many languages allows one to have many keys to open doors.
The eyes are afraid of, but the hands do.
East or West, home is best.
For me, it's not enough to be able to do forty professions.
Morning is wiser than evening.
One head is good, two are better.
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
Without labour you'll not get fish from the pond
Without labour you'll not get fish from the pond.
Not all shining things can be golden.
Promise little, but do much
Live and learn.
Speech is silver, but silence is gold.
Man proposes, God disposes.
As known, everyone chooses the company and friends where he feels
Money isn't everything.
First think, after speak.
Without working you can't catch a fish from the pond.
Experience can be deceptive or all that glitters is not gold.
Spring ice is deceptive, and a new friend is insecure.
There is no place like home.
If you live in the forest, you'll pray to the stubs.
Your tongue is your enemy.
Have breakfast yourself; share lunch with your friend; and give dinner to your enemy.
Don’t choose a house—choose neighbors. Don’t choose a path—choose traveling companions.
Where there is water, there is life.
A word said is a shot fired.