综合英语4-unit2

invasion” than those who are not used to
crowding.
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Different cultural ideas of personal space
Latin Americans commonly put a hand on their conversation partner's shoulder while speaking, esp. when both participants are of the same sex.
-- Five.
Can you play the process? -- Yes!
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Para 1
Which word in the paragraph can vividly summarize the process?
-- Slinky
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Slinky
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Para 1
Why does the writer tell his experience at the bank?
which the people in line, though reluctant,
had to give away their personal space to the
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Para 1
How many people at least are described here?
What's the function of the following sentences?
-- Examples to illustrate the topic sentence.
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Para 3
How many examples are there?
What are the occasions?
freak out an American man, who might want
to slap his conversation partner on the arm
or back – an action a Latino would find
10 startling or threatening.
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Different cultural ideas of personal space
The British keep a big distances when they talk to each other.
The Arab kept moving forward, while the Briton kept backing away to establish the distance at which he felt most comfortable.
Asians tend to keep much more distance between each other than Westerners do.
The perception of personal space is very strong in Japan. Crossing between two people or intruding into another's space to move through a crowded room is seen as ruder than in other cultures.
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Different cultural ideas of personal space
In Germany, Austria, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, the buttock slap is given as a sign of insult. "buttock pat," used in American sports as a sign of encouragement.
Lightning zigzagged across the sky.
adv. The path ran zigzag up the hill.
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Zigzag
那个醉鬼歪歪倒倒地沿街走去。 -- The drunken man zigzagged down the
street.
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Jostle
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So...
People need personal space
to feel comfortable.
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Personal Space
In 1966 Anthropologist Edward Hall identified four
different zones of personal space Americans like
The people sitting close to me were wedging me into the corner.
be wedged (in) between two persons
wedge a window to prevent it from rattling
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Wedge
我被紧紧夹在两个乘客中间下不了公共 汽车了
-- I was so tightly wedged between two other passengers that I couldn't get off the bus.
她的箱子里再也塞不进别的东西了。
-- She couldn’t wedge another item into her suitcase.
other similar “shared places” tend to
reduce personal space. People who
routinely find themselves in such
situations tend to have smaller personal
space and more tolerance for “space
The result was a comical chase around the party hall, the Briton backing away with the Arab in pursuit.
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Different cultural ideas of personal space
vi. vt. push, elbow, or bump against (someone) roughly, typically in a crowd
jostle one’s way jostle against sth. Synonym: bump, push, shove, thrust, press
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A Bus in Wuhan
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Zigzag
n. adj.
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Zigzag
vi. move forward by going at an angle first to one side then to the other
We are zigzagging up the hill.
The motor bike was zigzagging in and out of the traffic.
我终于挤下了车。 -- I finally jostled my way off the bus.
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Carve out
establish or create something through painstaking effort
He carved himself out a nice position in the business.
-- Yes!
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Para 2
What definition does the author give to "personal space"?
-- The last sentence.
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Para 3
What's the topic sentence? -- The first sentence.
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Different cultural ideas of personal space
The closest distance between two people in a conversation takes place in Middle Eastern. They even push and shove each other.
He carved out a career for himself.
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… riders are no longer taking pains to carve out little zones of space …
--… subway passengers are no longer trying to establish some personal space between them …
to keep around them
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How would you feel if you were in any of these situations?
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So...
“Space invaders” make people feel
uneasy.
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Shared places
Elevators, buses, theaters, and many