Rules:

recip*ity rule- respond

agreement rule - agree or risk comple*ty

context rule- use as greeting, as ice-breaker for further talk, as "default" to fill gap

Rules are conventions not laws

- Not like grammar rules.

- Not all English people follow these rules.

- Avoid stereotypes (of "them" and "us")

Learning culture= discovering beliefs, values and behaviors of "others" and comparing/ contrasting with "ours"

Teaching cultures= teaching "how to discover others' values, beliefs and behaviors

and how to compare/contrast with ours

and how to analyse and critique our and their cultures