Rebecca Fong

Societies and cultures establish rules about how 1.____________ you can stand to people in different situations. There are rules about how close you can stand to someone if you're very familiar with them or how 2.__________ it's polite to stand away from them if you need to keep a 3.___________ distance. And these are very different rules from culture to culture. So Middle Eastern and Hispanic cultures tend to stand the 4. ____________ distance apart when they're having conversations, whereas Scandinavians or Scottish people stand relatively 5. _____________ apart.

Some research shows that English people usually stand or sit about six to ten inches 6. _____________ apart than Dutch people do and in the Netherlands English people are seen by Dutch people to be quite 7. ___________ whereas the English apparently see the Dutch as pushy and 8. ______________.

Mahmood Jamal

I do feel that in tropical climates the body and emotions are 9. __________. When I used to return to Pakistan after having lived in London for a while I used to suddenly emotionally open up I noticed that people were much 10. _____________ - they'd hold your hand, they'd touch you, you'd sit very close to each other, you are not afraid to talk in an 11. _______________ way, so you are 12. ___________ you are emotionally alive. And when I used to come back to Heathrow I had to shut down all those systems and kind of put myself in that kind of straightjacket of being very calm, not being too 13. __________ to somebody, standing too 14. ___________ to them and not talking too loudly.

SPEAKING

Exercise 7. In pairs take turns to tell each other about:

- what non-verbal communication is and why it is important;

- the use of gestures or hand movements in different cultures;

- maintaining eye-contact;

- greetings;

- keeping distance;

- touching.

Guided Practice

Time and Space in Different Cultures

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