HSBC funny culture ads

HSBC is a British-based multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Below is the link to the series of HSBC ads about culture:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAEKUX2eV4jJEqwQnxJjXjlz09G7GGk7f

WHILE YOU WATCH

Watch the ads and match the lines in the tables below making up as many sentences as it’s possible:

 

Dos and don’ts	Gesture, symbols, behaviour	Countries
It’s polite to … It’s impolite / rude to … It’s common / acceptable to … It’s a sigh of good luck to … It’s a sign of bad luck to … It’s a sign of death / funerals to … It’s a custom to …	to give chrysanthemums to show soles of the feet to show the palm of the hand to fall asleep on the shoulder of a stranger to clean the plate to buy a drink to buy an expensive gift to give / to present a gift to … to have a meeting standing up to save time to take (the) time to contemplate what is being discussed the source of pride to take any accident very seriously	Asia Brazil China England France Germany Greece Italy Japan USA

 

AFTER YOU WATCH

 

Can you give any other examples of cultural pitfalls one can face while travelling or doing business abroad?

Просмотр и обсуждение фильма “28 days”

Фильм на англ. языке можно скачать здесь https://yadi.sk/i/28_uF3SsuxPps

Или качайте с любого торрента.

Обязательное условие – смотрим фильм на англ. яз. (можно одновременно с англ. субтитрами или с рус.)

Задания по фильму ниже …

 

BEFORE YOU WATCH

C More information: translate the original Twelve Steps published by Alcoholics Anonymous:

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

C Read the short storyline of the film you’re going to watch:

 

After getting into a car accident while drunk on the day of her sister's wedding, Gwen Cummings is given a choice between prison or a rehab center. She chooses rehab, but is extremely resistant to taking part in any of the treatment programs they have to offer, refusing to admit that she has an alcohol addiction. After getting to know some of the other patients, Gwen gradually begins to re-examine her life and see that she does, in fact, have a serious problem. The path to recovery will not be easy, and success will not be guaranteed or even likely, but she is now willing to give it a try.

SERENITY GLEN REHABILITATION CENTER

 

Days

WHILE YOU WATCH

j People in rehab:

Staff
Evelyn - psychiatrist	Betty	Cornell Shaw

 

k List here the rehab dos and don’ts rules for patients:

 

l Collect as much information as you can about the rehab patients:

· kind of addiction

· relation among the family members

· the reasons they became addicted

 

 

Patients
	Gwen Cummings
	Andrea
	Daniel
	Bobbie Jean
	Oliver
	Gerhardt
	Roshanda
	Eddie Boone

C Find more details about the group:

· inside group atmosphere

· little amusing games

· free time spending

 

m Chant: Put the jumbled lines into the correct order in order to compose three chants:

Jumbled lines	Chant 1
You can keep your drugs and your whiskey sours. Together, we're better! Hey, hey, what do you say? No drugs! Yay, God! Hey, hey, what do you know? Sober is the only way! We're better together! We got us a higher power! Pills and booze have got to go!
Chant 2
Chant 3

Pray: Fill in the gaps:

 

God, grant me the __________ to __________ the things I cannot __________ the __________ to change the things I can and the __________ to know the __________. It works if you __________ it. It's __________ it!

accept change courage difference serenity wisdom work worth

 

n List here all the therapeutic tools you saw in the film:

 

 

 

AFTER YOU WATCH