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Working Abroad
Working Abroad - site content (c) BBC 2004
WORKING ABROAD
CONTENTS
General
Introduction
Cultural Differences
Why work abroad
First Impressions
2
2
3
4
Language
Introduction
Misunderstandings
Accents
Tone, volume and
stress
Richard’s tip
5
5
6
7
Body Language
Introduction
Why it is important
Finding out the rules
Proximity
Richard’s tip
10
10
11
12
13
9
Time
Introduction
A theory of time
Getting time wrong
Richard’s tip
14
14
16
16
Status
Introduction
Chris’s experience
Maralde’s experience
Adam’s experience
Federico’s experience
Richard’s tip
18
18
19
20
21
23
Relationships
Introduction
Can I work abroad
Stereotypes and other issues
Sources of help
Richard’s tip
24
24
26
27
28
Federico
The person
The job
The experience
29
30
32
Adam
The person
The band
The experience
34
34
35
Maralde
The person
The job
The experience
37
38
38
Chris
The person
The experience
40
40
Andre
The person
The job
The experience
42
42
44
Richard Cook
The person
Richard’s tips
46
46
Vocabulary
General
Language
Body language
Time
Status
Relationships
47
48
49
50
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GENERAL
1) Introduction
'Working Abroad' is for those of you who've always wanted to get out of your chairs and go
and do something else instead.
Each unit on the left explores different issues connected with working abroad and by clicking
on the photographs on the right, you can find out about people's personal experiences .
There are also vocabulary pages, exercises and quizzes to help you develop and test your
English.
For a more detailed guide to the site, click on the link below. Or go to the next page to hear
our interviewees introduced themselves.
This site is based upon a six part radio series. You can access the programmes by using the
links on the left.
Eight people, all of whom were working abroad, were interviewed for the series. You can find
out more about five of them by clicking on their photos on the right.
But for now, listen to four of our interviewees introduce themselves. Can you identify what
jobs they each do?
Answer
Adam - a musician
Chris - a doctor (a clinical fellow)
Maralde - a financial analyst
Federico - he didn't mention what job he did
2) Cultural Differences
Living and working abroad would be really easy if everyone spoke the same way and behaved
in the same way. But, as soon as you leave your own culture it quickly becomes clear that
things are not the same.
There are small and large differences between cultures. And how well you are able to deal
with these differences will affect how good your experience will be.
THINK
What sort of things do you think might be different between two cultures?
Transcript
When people go into another cultural environment some of the things that can be different
for them are such things as the verbal communication style, that can be radically different.
And we're not just talking about a different language but literally the way that we use verbal
communication.
Secondly, the non-verbal communication, body language, the gestures and the things that we
do as part of our communication.
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Things like time. Do we see time as a linear process with a fixed series of events following
each other, or is time something much looser, much more flexible?
3) Why work abroad?
As we've seen, there can be many things that make working abroad difficult, things like
language differences and time. So why do you think that people do it?
Professor Petruska Clarkson believes that people may go abroad because they are unhappy
where they currently are. But she also has two other reasons.
Listen to the audio and work out what Professor Clarkson's other reasons are.
Transcript
People are curious, or they might feel I don't know very much what to do and I want to have
the equivalent of a gap year . I want to experience other cultures and then once you know,
you've had some familiarity working in a foreign culture you can think about whether you
want to go back to own.
Another reason for going is where people really want to go and improve themselves .
Where the situation that they are in in their countries may not give them the scope for their
ambitions and of course many people do go and work abroad for those reasons - to find a
place where they can fulfil themselves
Answers
people are curious and they also want to improve themselves
Professor Clarkson gave three reasons why people go to work in different countries. First,
that they are unhappy where there are. Two, that they are not sure what they want to do and
are curious about other cultures and three that they want to improve themselves.
Listen to four of our interviewees. For each person decide which one of Professor Clarkson's
reasons is their reason for moving abroad.
Transcript
Chris
I always had a dream to come over to the UK, to work in this country and to benefit. That's
the reason for me to live in Europe and to experience that to the full.
Maralde
I always wanted to work in a multicultural environment and that really made me come to
Paris and apply for a job, like really living here.
Federico
I decided to come to Germany because I wanted to fully develop my international experience
that I started in London. I didn't want to go back to Argentina right at this moment. I
thought that the best thing was to fully develop that experience.
Adam
I work here in England because I need money to live here and for equipment for my band. I
spent my money for my band, so I need money only for this yeah.
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Answers
Chris said that he always had a dream to visit England (curiosity and to improve himself)
Maralde said that she wanted to work in a multi-cultural environment (this was for Maralde's
own benefit, although it might not improve her - so Maralde's reason doesn't fit in with
Professor Clarkson's)
Federico said that he wanted to fully develop his international experience (to improve
himself)
Adam said that he wanted money to support his band (it would be possible to argue then that
this was to improve himself and his band)
4) First Impressions
Whatever the difficulties working abroad might cause, there are millions of people working
abroad right now, experiencing and enjoying life in a different culture. But what's it like the
first time you arrive in a new country?
Listen to our interviewees to hear their first impressions of life abroad. As you listen try to
answer these three questions.
1. What was the difficulty in France?
2. Which person learnt about what food the British ate?
3. Is non verbal communication more important in northern or southern Europe?
Transcript
Maralde
I arrived here and I just wanted to call my parents and say that I had arrived. So I tried to plug
in my telephone and realised that they have got a completely different system and I wouldn't
have thought this because we are like neighbouring countries. So I really supposed it was
exactly the same.
Adam
In the beginning it was really difficult to feel this place like London, understand the culture
what English people eat, what they're talking about.
Chris
The non-verbal communication in Southern European countries is certainly much more
important than in Northern European countries and there you wouldn't keep that much of a
distance between a person, for example, as you do in Germany
Answers
Maralde (person 1) couldn't plug her German telephone into the French phone system
Adam (person 2) learnt about what food British people ate
Chris (person 3) said that non-verbal communication was more important in southern
Europe.
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LANGUAGE (002)
1) Introduction
This unit explores verbal communication and language; the words we use, how we use them
and how we say or write them.
To be successful you need to both understand what you are being told and to know that
people understand you.
Over the next few pages, you'll find out about some of the more common ways in which
language creates difficulties and hear some advice on how to overcome them.
ACTIVITY
Listen to our interviewees' experiences. What did one interviewee have to do in a canteen
apart from speak French?
Transcript
Andre
As soon as you start working with refugees languages stops being the barrier because
everyone has a difficulty in communicating themselves.
Maralde
At the canteen you have to speak French or just point, otherwise you won't get what you
wanted.
Emma
Some of them good because they are English, some of them from other countries they speak
quite good and they speak quite quick, so I can't understand properly everything.
Answers
point
Maralde said that she had to point at things in the canteen to get what she wanted
2) Misunderstandings
So verbal communication is all about the words that you say, write and read. And it's easy to
get this wrong.
Most misunderstandings happen because people use the wrong word or mispronounce
particular sounds. We then think that they mean one thing when, in fact, they mean
something else.
ACTIVITY
Maralde and Emma have had some language misunderstandings. As you listen to them
explain, try to answer these questions:
What was the name of Maralde's t-shirt and what did it mean in French? What were the two
words that Emma mixed up?
Transcript
Maralde
I think the funniest one that sort of happened to me was when I, one day, wore my TATE
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