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A Brief Introduction Course: Intercultural Communication Textbook: Intercultural Communication in English (Revised Edition), by Xu Lisheng, Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2010. Teaching aim of this term: To make students understand the relationship between language and culture to foster intercultural communication awareness and develop intercultural communicative competence and to comprehensively improve the overall capacity. Requirements for the course: We won’t just focus on the textbook; we shall add many other related materials. So the requirements are: before class -- prepare the lesson; during the class -- take part in the discussion and case study; take notes very carefully; after class -- finish the exercises; review what’s learned. Your final score: class presentation + homework + class performance = 40% term exam = 60% Introduction: Intercultural Communication Cross-cultural Communication Class Presentation: Topics for presentation (as a reference) Names Addressing Expressing Thanks and Responses Family Life Friendship Social Interaction Terms of Color Idioms Introduction Conversation Telephone calls Facial expressions Eye behaviors Gestures Posture Time Space *Attention: the topics chosen shall be around communication across cultures, not just about culture itself. Unit One Communication Across Cultures Warm Up Please read the folk tale, then answer the questions: Why is it difficult to explain to a blind person what colors are? Do you sometimes find it hard to make yourself properly understood by others? If you do, why do you think it is hard? Reading Read the article of “Intercultural Communication: An Introduction” and answer the questions? ( Supplement: What is intercultural communication (IC)? What do you know about it? Definition IC is concerned with communication among people from different cultural backgrounds. Intercultural communication refers to communication between people whose cultural perception and symbol syst