Empty Seat
Cultural meetings
English as a work Language
Useful terms
100

It is a type of transport that has four wheels and can carry many passengers.

What is a bus?

100

It is unspoken language you show with your body.

What is body language?

100

It is the first language you learn from your parents.

What is a Mother tongue/first language/native language?

100

It is something we use to speak to each other.

What is language?

200

It is something you sit on in a bus.

What is a seat?

200
It is a special suit that everyone must wear at some jobs. 

What is a uniform?

200

It is the language you learn when moving to a new country.

What is a second language?

200

Is a word that describes if you are properly dressed and speak respectfully to others. 

What is formal behaviour?

300

It is a person who is on the bus, but not driving.

What is a passenger?

300

People will think you are poor or homeless.

What happens if you eat in a public park in Japan?

300

It is a language you learn in a country where it is not normally used.

What is a foreign language?

300

You show a relaxed attitude to speech and dress codes.

What does informal mean?

400

No, the other passengers pretended not to notice.

Did the other passengers help the crying woman?

400

It is a person who is learning a trade through practice in a workplace.

What is an apprentice?

400

It is a common contact language.

What is a lingua franca?

400

It is if you show proper politeness to you elders. You have to give it to receive it. 

What is respect?

500

We don't know.

Why was the woman crying.

500

They are unwritten rules to how we should dress and behave in different situations.

What are social codes?

500

Because of power: military, science, economy, culture, technology

Why is English the Global lingua franca?

500

Everyone has it. It is our common history, traditions, ways of doing things. It is different from place to place.

What is culture?