Reading across the Curriculum

Video Worksheet

Culture Shock Travel Trips

Watch the video Culture Shock Travel Tips and answer the following
questions.
Write your answers in the spaces provided. For the multiple-choice
questions, choose the best answer and blacken one circle only.

1 How do people usually feel when they have a culture shock?

A. B. C. D.

2 There are different greetings around the world. Where can you see people do
these things? Put a tick (✓) in the correct box.

Dubai Kenya France

a. friends kissing on one another’s cheek

b. the ‘jumping dance’

c. men touching noses

3 Which of the following is something you CANNOT give as a gift in Finland?

A. B. C. D.

4 What happened to Hailey when she was in the US?

A. She was lost while taking public transport.

B. Strangers often talked to her on the train.
C. She learnt how to make new friends.
D. She couldn’t cross her legs on public transport.

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5 Complete the sentence using one word only in the blank.

If you are travelling on the train in the UK, you can leave your

______________ behind for others.

6 Bonus question
Is there anything that Chinese cannot give to other people as gifts? Name one
such thing and explain why.

______________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________

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Culture Shock Travel Tips

Answer Key

1 B
2

3 C
4 B
5 newspaper

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