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Business Cultural Intelligence Guide

The document discusses a reading lesson about cultural intelligence in business. It explains what cultural intelligence is and how understanding different cultures can help businesses improve awareness within multicultural teams to make them more effective. The lesson includes a reading passage, vocabulary exercises, comprehension questions, and a discussion question.

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Business Cultural Intelligence Guide

The document discusses a reading lesson about cultural intelligence in business. It explains what cultural intelligence is and how understanding different cultures can help businesses improve awareness within multicultural teams to make them more effective. The lesson includes a reading passage, vocabulary exercises, comprehension questions, and a discussion question.

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CAREER READINESS

Reading Lesson

B1+ Business: Cultural Intelligence in Business


Summary: The text explains what cultural intelligence is and how business can improve multicultural
awareness within their teams to make the team more effective.

Time: Approximately 40 minutes.

Skills: Reading, Writing, Speaking

Language focus: Vocabulary

Materials needed: One worksheet per student

Reading
Have students read the text and answer the question.

Key:
Cultural intelligence is understanding the way different cultures interact. The type of problems created by not being
aware of the cultural difference among employees are related to physical space and touch, greetings and gestures,
attitudes to time management, hierarchical relationships, and ways of working.

Vocabulary

Key:
1. c 2. a   3. b   4. c   5. c

Comprehension

Key:
1. with different kinds of people    2. how close you stand    3. the kind of offense it is easy to avoid
4. what other people need to know    5. methods you don’t normally use can be successful

Thinking
Teacher ’s notes

Have students respond the question in small-group discussion or in writing.

Extension
Ask students to think about other cultures that they know and what they would like to borrow from those cultures and
implement in their own, e.g. being as punctual as British people.
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