Culture and Teaching:
International Etiquette
Presented By:
Our Goal and Purpose
• Bring awareness of other cultures to
promote respect through mutual
communication that will lower
misunderstanding.
• Meanwhile, learn various activities to apply
in the classroom.
Pre-Task
• Unscramble the letters to make a word:
ITTTUQEEE
Online Stopwatch: http://www.online-stopwatch.com/
Pre-Task
What do you think
the word could be?
Pre-Task
Answer:
ETIQUETTE
Pre-Task
Answer:
ETIQUETTE
Pre-Task
What do you know about
“International Etiquette?”
Pre-Task
Transition
Transition
• We will now take a quiz online
• This will be done with all of us together
• We will be able to check our
understanding of etiquette in different
parts of the world
Online Quiz: http://www.fekids.com/img/kln/flash/DontGrossOutTheWorld.swf
International Etiquette
Let’s begin our tasks!
~ Physical Contact ~
Physical Contact
Physical Contact
Taiwan
Western Countries
Greeting
Waving hands
Nodding
Say, “Ni –Hao”
Ask, “Have you eaten?”
Shaking hands
Hugging
Kissing
NZ – ‘Hongi’
Signs of affection
Praising
Patting your
head/shoulder
Embracing in arms
(young)
Holding hands (young)
Hugging
Kissing
Hi-Five
Saying, “I love
you!”constantly
Physical distance
Keeping an appropriate
distance
Keep a boundary
between people.
Eye contacts
Students are expected to Students are expected to
show respect and
look at the teachers as a
gratitude to teachers at
way of showing respect.
all time.
Physical Contact – Activity/task
• Showing posters or pictures of people greeting/signs
of affection/physical contact/eye contacts of
different countries.
• Role-play : Divide teachers into 4 groups and each
group will show various ways of manners in Taiwan
or in the western countries.
~ Personal Relations ~
Personal Relations
Taiwan
Western Countries
Inside the work
environment
• Polite and respectful
between colleagues.
• Friendly, more layback and relax.
Outside the work
environment
• Still polite and
keeping personal
privacy
• Keeping privacy for
personal and social
life
Family tie
• Close-bond
• Family/relatives live
close by
• Loose-bond
• Children are expected
to move out when
they enter college
Personal Relations –
Activity/Task
Making your own Van Diagram
Characteristics of the
personal relations in
Taiwan
Things that
are in common
Characteristics of the
personal relations in
the western countries
~ Family Structure ~
Family Structure
• Who is in your family?
• order of importance, or in charge
• Have students write down the family
members in their house.
• Then use the family member names to
place them on the board.
Family Structure
• Now use the other paper and do the same
for what you think is the typical American
family.
• Order of importance
• Show the word extended on board to
show what Americans call the family and
what they call extended family.
• Discuss changes in American family due
to divorce (50%+), single parent families,
etc.
~ Family Background ~
Family Background
• Family Background
• In Taiwan, China and Taiwan
• Hakka is a place or tribe in China so that
counts as China.
• Aboriginal counts as Taiwan.
• Growing trend of Taiwanese marrying
Indonesian
Family Background
• Hand out maps.
• Have students place the letters for the
appropriate people to show where they
might have come from.
• W-white B-black L-latino M-Middle
Eastern
• A-asian
• After they have filled out map, show ppt
showing where they might have come
from.
Where are your ancestors
from?
w
w
w
w
A
L
w
M M
B
w
A
W
A
L
A
w
B
L
~ Meal Manners ~
Meal Manners
• Get together with your group and make a
list of at least 3 kinds of food that you like
from Taiwan.
• Compare the foods you like
Meal Manners
• Now, make a list of at least 3 kinds of food
if you were from the country in your name
tag
• When finished, get the envelope and
check the foods you listed with the ones
printed on your page
Food: http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/blogs/80dishes
http://www.factmonster.com/science/food/around-world.html
Meal Manners
Meal Manners
• Let’s watch a very short video about a
Foreigner who visits an Asian family for a
meal.
• Discuss all the differences between
cultures according to what you see in the
video.
Youtube Video: http://youtu.be/bdeFdFEbuqk
Meal Manners
• This is an interesting site where you can
find one of kind facts about food around
the world.
Fun Facts: http://stuffucanuse.com/strange_food.htm
~ Traveling ~
Traveling
Traveling
• Take a few minutes with your group to
discuss how your “country” would handle
things in each type of transportation
• What do you think would be the proper
reaction? Why?
~ School Environment ~
School Environment
• Let’s watch a video about different schools
and student in different parts of the world
Youtube Video: http://youtu.be/TPZylMTIx0o
School Environment
TAIWAN
OTHER
School Environment
• Q&A
• Which of these things
mentioned do you think would
be most beneficial to apply in
your school/all Taiwanese
schools?
Fun Facts: http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-education-around-world
Transition
• Let’s watch a short video to summarize
everything we’ve said today.
• Any final thoughts?
Youtube Video:
International Etiquette
Time to wrap it up!
Post-Task
Post-Task
• There is now a Final Assessment
• Simply asks about the different topics we
discussed
• It is a great way to measure everyone’s
performance and comprehension
Thank you for
your time!