Finally, Sandra in Latvia brings us back to the IH Business Cultural Trainers Certificate and how you market yourself as a business cultural trainer.

'On November 1st I'm presenting 'Mind the Gaffe' at the London Language Show at Olympia, London.The London Language Show is an annual three day trade show in which teachers of all languages, i.e.

Thanks to the Saarbruechen teacher's day in Germany last week for a useful activity called cultural brainstorm. It's simple. Each student has to prepare a question about British culture.

'Europe at Work' is a major new video resource resource for teachers of English in Business and you can access it at www.eiworkplace.net.

On the IH Business Cultural Trainer's Certificate we recommend a number of resources for cultural research and teaching. Here they are. What resources have you found useful?

One of the three 'legs' of culture is 'cultural knowledge.', basic information about the culture of the country you are studying. The others are values and behaviour.

This is an activity for raising empathy. Empathy is the ability to put yourself in the other person's position so that you can appreciate their situation.

This is partly an answer to DIM's blog where she said she had taught some idioms to her group

Angela Daniel made me think. How do you get cultural information across to students so that they absorb it and remember it?

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