● 如何讚美人 Practice complementing each other. In what situation do you find it easy to compliment your friend?  Please choose one of the following situations to practice giving compliments.  

● In what situation is it not ok to compliment others? Explain why.

 

Complimenting one’s appearance	Complimenting one’s learning attitudes or methods	Complimenting one’s way of making friends
Complimenting one’s English or Chinese	Complimenting one’s dancing or other skills	Complimenting one’s dorm or home

 

Situation not good for compliment

When you are jealous	When your friend is too proud	When you may sound flattering
When there is a conflict of interest	When some one else disagrees with you	When your compliment may be misunderstood

 

Ref.

1.Learn from the ways Dean, Cooper and Doug compliment each other. For instance, they show that they like each other genuinely, and they have something positive to say about each other. 

2.Mutual Complement:

3.describing their attitudes towards knowledge and learning

Dean: Big Brother is fantastic! He knows everything.  Doug: That’s because he really wants to learn.

1.ii. describing what they produce.

Doug: Big Brother is even more talented.  The multimedia learning programs and materials he wrote were wonderful. Dean: They have a talent for music and art. Look at this stone.  The way they painted it makes it look like a real stone.

 

1.Refocusing your complement on others:

Cooper: I didn’t know that you’re so talented! Dean: That’s really nothing.  I am really grateful to have these students in my life.

 

● 校園/台灣文化 About campus/Taiwan’s culture: Aboriginal cultures

Take a look at these two websites—

3.台灣原住民文化園區http://www.tacp.gov.tw/home02_3.aspx?ID=$3071&IDK=2&EXEC=L and

4.台灣原住民人物列表

and describe your experience with the aboriginal cultures in Taiwan. 

 

● 贈禮與文化差異 –

● Take a look at this page (Soft Skills: Cultural Differences in Gift Giving), and discuss what gifts to provide to different types of people (e.g. business co-workers, clients, teachers, parents, siblings, classmates, a stranger from another culture who helped you) and/or in different occasion (wedding, parties, graduation, birthday, etc).

● Have you ever got any creative ideas of giving gifts?