1. The Toolkit for Culture and Communication
VIDEO
INTRODUCTION
BY DR. CAROL ARCHER
If you wish to use the introduction by Dr. Archer, it is suggested that you
prepare the students beforehand. Immediately below are some exercises to
prepare the students for Dr. Archer's introduction. For these beginning levels
you may choose to simply use the introduction of the culture bump guides, beginning
followed by the Spaceship Perception exercise, the Asian classroom
and the map matching exercise.
Vocabulary Words
Toolkit - A box for tools.
Dad - father
Tools - Things that help a person to do a job.
Master Mechanic - a person who is very good to work on cars or trucks
Ivy -A type of vine or plant.
Craft - a job
Module - a chapter
On a daily basis - each day
Stumbling block to - problems
Expert guides - professional leaders
To acquire - to get
To invite - to ask someone to do something or to go with you
Childhood - the time of being a child
Knowledge - what you know
Journey - to go somewhere
Create - to make, to build
Encounter - to meet
Relationship - to know another person very well
Skill - to do something well
Alone - by yourself

2. Choose one of the vocabulary words above to match each picture

3. The Video: A Summary
In the video, Dr. Archer talks about the Toolkit for Culture and
Communication. She says the Toolkit is like the Toolkit of her father.
Her father was a Master mechanic. He worked on cars and went to
many places in his car. This Toolkit is your Toolkit. You use this
Toolkit to understand other cultures and to live better in the United
States or other countries. You learn to understand your "culture bumps"
(when your culture is different from American culture or other people's
culture.). You learn what to do when you have a culture bump. You
learn to understand yourself and to help yourself feel better. You learn
how to make friends from all cultures. In the video, you have expert
guides to help you learn these things. The expert guides are Mazen
from Syria, Buki from Venezuela, Eric from Taiwan, Josh from the USA,
Katie from Korea and Jama from Somalia.
Now, read along as your teacher reads the introduction first. Listen for
the vocabulary words. ALTERNATE: Write the vocabulary words on cards and
have students raise the card as they hear it used.
Here are more vocabulary words: