Talk about advantages and disadvantages of working in the environment of cultural diversity.
You can answer the following questions as cues:
* What are the advantages of cultural diversity?
* What are the disadvantages of cultural diversity?
* What is your opinion about cultural diversity?
Useful languages:
Useful vocabulary | Useful structures |
• increasing creativity, increasing adaptability, understanding more, work effectively • different language, different culture, different work style, discrimination | • Cultural diversity helps improve... • Another advantage is... • However, ... • ...may cause discrimination with others. • Cultural difference will also affect... • In my opinion, ... • As far as I am concerned, ... • I think... |
Complete the notes:
Structures of the talk | Your notes |
What are the advantages of cultural diversity? | __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ |
What are the disadvantages of cultural diversity? | __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ |
What is your opinion about cultural diversity? | __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ |
Now you try!
Give your answer using the following cues. You should speak for 1-2 minutes.
1. Cultural diversity helps improve...
2. Another advantage is...
3. However,...
4. Cultural difference will also affect...
5. I think...
Now you tick!
Did you ...
q answer all the questions in the task?
q give some details to each main point?
q speak slowly and fluently with only some hesitation?
q use vocabulary wide enough to talk about the topic?
q use various sentence structures (simple, compound, complex) accurately?
q pronounce correctly (vowels, consonants, stress, intonation)?
