Unit 09. Natural Disasters. Lesson 4. Communication

Unit 10 COMMUNICATION Period 87.. Reasons for communication breakdown A.. Woman: If you go down the corridor, you will see a sign saying Entrée… Man : What does entrée mean?. I’m afra

Unit 10

COMMUNICATION

Period 87 Lesson 4: COMMUNICATION

New words:

- Language barrier (n)

- Cultural difference (n):

- Communication channel (n)

- Shrug (n) :

- Glance (n)

Check –up vocabulary

Communication

glance Language barrier

3

4

Reasons for

communication

breakdown

A Language barrier

C A lack of communication channels

B Cultural differences

Activity 1 Match the possible reasons with the examples

1 Woman: If you go down the corridor, you will see a sign saying

Entrée…

Man : What does entrée mean? I’m afraid I don’t understand.

2 In Sweden people call each other by their first names and this does

not mean a lack of respect.

3 I can’t contact him by mobile phone – the network signal is so weak

here.

4 We haven’t heard from him It takes several weeks for the post to

arrive in that area.

5 What is he texting here ? I can’t understand this crazy shorthand!

6 In some countries, yellow roses mean happiness and friendship but in

Russia, if you send someone yellow roses it mean a separation

Activity 1 Match the possible reasons with the examples

A

B C

C

A

B

If you don’t understand body language, communication breakdown may happen.

Activity 2: What do they mean?

I don’t know I’m angry Sorry, I need to go now

I’m happy It’s wonderful!

I’m so excited!

9.00a.m March 23

I wanna c u 2nite

<3

WBY?

Using abbreviations for online chatting and texting

Activity 3 Can you decode the following abbreviations

in texting / chatting style? Work in groups

1 Where r u? We r @ Lotte on 2/F

Where are you? We are at Lotte on the second floor

4 Pls call me rite bck Thx

2 I’ll b 5 mins late CUS

I will be 5 minutes late See you soon

3 Wanna c a movie this wkd?

Do you want to see a movie this weekend?

Please me right back Thanks

5 Hi! Wot RY doin 2nite?

Hi! What are you doing tonight?

6 Did u c it? LOL.

Did you see it? Laugh out loud!

Reasons for communication

breakdown

Language barrier

A lack of communication channels

Cultural differences

Abbreviations for online chatting

and texting

Body language

Communication breakdown

Homophones Unclear information

Activity 4 Work in group For each communication breakdown mentioned above, think of a future

technology idea that will help avoid it

Example : Language barrier

We will use an app on a smart phone to

automatically translate what we are saying into

the language of the listener.

HOME WORK

- Learn by heart the new words and the

reasons for communication breakdown

- Redo all exercises

- Prepare unit 10 Skills 1

Goodbye !