504 Absolutely Essential Words -Word Review 4 (page 79), Lesson 25
exhibit
Every month our museum puts its valuable exhibits outside to show ordinary people the importance of historical objects.
Emily exhibits her knowledge of social media and programming to her classmates, so they will be aware of such things as “trojan viruses”.
harvest
Our workers only harvest the most ripe mangos and bananas for fruit rolls.
In ancient times, many cultures had gods or goddesses of harvest; in many cases, goddesses of harvest were also goddesses of motherhood.
panic
Final exams are very overwhelming for many students, some of them even have panic attacks during it.
Little reasons can become the root of a big panic among ordinary people.
ambush
His body was ambushed after a planned assassination by the government.
A big rocket launcher “Katyusha” was hidden in the ambush for a long while, it was clearly used many times.
plea
The defendant himself pleaded guilty to domestic abuse of 4 children and a CP in his computer disk.
He made a plea for mercy in court after the judge confirmed his guilt.
detour
Bob made a detour in the road after he saw the big traffic that was ahead of him.
In Yerevan many road constructions are going on and hopefully we have many detours so we can always arrive at our destinations
delinquent
My delinquent uncle will be out of prison in these few days, but I feel like it will be a disaster for our family.
In Florida, a young delinquent tried to sneak into a closed café but miserably failed and was stuck in the dishwasher until morning.
reject
Our partner company rejected our offer after finding out that their nemesis company works with us too.
Our all furniture was a reject by my dad’s company, so he brought them home and now we use them.
sneer
My younger siblings sneer at our parents often when things don’t go their way.
She looked at me with a sneer of disgust after I told her my preferences for women.
scowl
My mom usually scowls when she can’t see the scene from afar.
After a long day with her unbearable students, she stamped into her room with a scowl on her face.
25 lesson exercise
Objective Advanced – Getting to know you…
1. Learn the new words and do ex. 1 on page 10.
2. Read the text “Culture Shock” on page 12 and do ex. 2 on the same page.
1/ Because she only knew the stereotypical part of England’s culture, that certainly was a part of the culture, but in reality, the whole culture didn’t only consist of stereotypes and same-looking people as he imagined and the whole concept of that seemed like an exploration of an “iceberg”.
2/ To try new things, being interested in the culture by doing research on the internet, meeting new people and going out with them, and being ready for changes in the environment.
3. In 200-250 words or more, prepare your personal statement on the topic below:
culture shock for me in short
This general topic always will be incredibly important for its always will been the reason for tension between countries and human kind in general the way somebody spends their own life conforming to their own culture and understanding the world around them with these specific ideologies being the main form of perceiving the world so now when someone is placed in an environment in a culture where it might challenge their specific values and views will be a bit catastrophic so it becomes a very hard thing to digest for most people and fear takes over and in recent years we have had a great growth in exploring culture but at the same time this became a lot more damaging because of the fact that it was presented in this scientific and factoid nature of being this very special thing that that only happens in this part of the world so in a sense it makes it seem unworldly even though its literally on our world so even exploring the topic doesn’t seem to help my main form of a solution is that we try and understand the concept of culture for ourselves and what it means to us not what it cane be and is.
What is culture shock, do you think? Have you ever experienced this?
not really in my life it never played a big role for me it never matter if i was eating something unique looking or talking to someone who wasn’t from the same country i was from it never was weird nor shocking
Have you ever visited or lived in a foreign country? If so, what cultural differences did you notice?
I lived in cyprus and generally european countries differ from most others but in this case cyprus was very boring so were the people the heat would seemingly be the thing which would cause this boredom because all you could do is try to constantly cool yourself.
What might a visitor to your country perceive to be the biggest cultural difference?
the people because the people of Armenia are quite unique i find every interaction with stranger memorable because of how different it is every time and also the art and poetry is something peo[ple coming should take notice of.
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