Guest Contributors

In this section you can access all the blog entries from our Guest Contributors, including their biographies and video interviews. You can get involved in discussions raised by the Guest Contributors, add comments and ask them questions.

Barry Tomalin blog 9: teaching the body language  
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Body language is an important aspect of intercultural communication and using video allows you to observe the body language in action.  I classify body language as follows.

Barry Tomalin Blog 8 Stereotypes and generalisations  
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How do you guard against stereotyping other cultures? Stereotyping fixes a person  according to a particular cultural type.

Barry Tomalin blog 7: my country's 'number one'  
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Ths is an activity designed by Ben Hammond at International House, London, who teaches Contemporary British Culture.

Blog 6: village life in Britain (activity for schools)  
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Prompted by her local village photo calendar, Diana England from IH in Torres Vedras in Portugal has come up with this idea for teaching about village life and local customs in the UK.

Barry Tomalin blog 5: cross-cultural vs inter-cultural, the four questions activity  
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Do you teach cross-cultural awareness or inter-cultural communication? Is there a difference? In my view there is.

Barry Tomlin blog 4: creating critical incidents  
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Day 3 of the intensive Business Cultural Trainers Certificate and we all agree that creating critical incident scenarios is an excellent way of increasing cultural awareness and because critical

Blog 3: business cultural warm-ups  
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Day 3 of our culture blog and Day 1 of the three day intensive Business Cultural Trainers Certificate at IH London.
Barry Tomalin blog 2: a cultural activity  
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DELIGHTS AND SURPRISES

Barry Tomalin blog 1: bring a souvenir to class  
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MAKE CULTURE REAL. BRING A SOUVENIR TO CLASS.

My plans for the month ahead  
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This is just to say I am really looking forward to meeting and discussing with you all on the net during this month.

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