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Chocolate · Anmeldungsdatum: 20.09.2011 Beiträge: 8

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Bitte um Hilfe. Kann mir bitte jem. diese R. C kontrollieren auf Inhaltliche sowie auf grammatikalische Fehler wäre sehr dankbar.

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With more World Travelers, the ? Ugly American ? Has Rivals

Every summer, people all over the world become acquainted again with a deep truth spoken by the actor and comedian Steve Martin. He was speaking for tourists everywhere, not just to France, when he said : ?? Boy, those French, they have a different word for everything!?? That people from different countries observe different customs - not only of speaking, but eating, sleeping, gesturing, counting change, observing boundaries of personal space, tipping cab drivers, standing in lines, avoiding certain topics of conversation at dinner as unbearably disgusting - is a truism on probably can never be reminded of to often.
Especially this year, according to statistics complied by Ney York City. The dollar is cheap. The shopping is endless. And about seven million visitors are expected in the city - the highest number since before 9/11 - mainly from Britain, Ireland, France, Spain, Scandinavia and Germany. Expedia, the only travel service, conduced a survey of tourist board around the world that rated the British tourists as the most obnoxious. Some people in world tourism say that the Chinese, the newest wave of the world travellers, are even more so. So is it time, at last, for retiring the term ??ugly American ?? from the dictionary of foreign phrases? The answer according to experts in the field of tourism anthropology, is a possible yes. Nelsen H H. Graburn, a professor of anthropology at the University of California Berkely, said of his graduate students recently asked tour guides in China to rate the tourists from various Western countries. ?? The told her that Israeli, French and America tourists could be the most difficult.?? Professor Graburn said, ?? but that was disgusting they American was that they could be loud and demanding, and than they would invariable apologize and give them big tips.?? To be an ugly tourist is to?? have an overall lack of understanding that there is such a thing as culture difference,?? wrote Professor Inga Treitler, the secretary for the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, in an e- mail message. Valene Smith, an anthropology professor at California state University at Chico who pioneered the academic study of tourism and travel in the 1970s, said that the tourists most likely to be deplored by their hosts these days are the Chinese. ?? The behave as they would at home,?? she said.?? There is a lot of pushing and shoving.?? Last summer tourists descended on the small German city of Trier to visit the birthplace of Karl Max. ?? It was quite mess,?? Professor Smith said.

Only 4 words

1) What should travellers always be aware of?
different customs abroad

2) Why do many European want to visit New York?
cheap dollar, endless shopping

3) When did tour guide appreciate about Americans?
horrible behavior

4) What characterize an ??ugly tourist???
understanding od cultural difference

5) What do the Chinese do when abroad that might annoy people?
pushing and shoving

Reasons to be playful
German are beginning to enjoy gaming

?? What is wrong with Germans? ?? asks Gerhard Florin. European boss of Electronic Arts, the world?s largest games- maker, as he laments his compatriots lack of enthusiasm for video games. Game consoles are twice as popular in France and Spain, and around four times as popular in America and Britain, as they are in Germany. Whatever the reason, it is not technophobia: German are keen users of mobile phones and broadband internet connections. The ailing German economy is partly to blame, say Nick Parker, an independent game analyst, but the main reason are cultural. German spend less than other on other forms of entertainment too. In 2003, the went to the cinema an average of 1.8 times, compared with 2.8 visits per person in Britain, 2.9 in France an 3.4 in Spain, according to figures from screen Digest, a marked research firm. Similarly, Germans spending on DVDs $ 1.7 billion in 2004, . compared with $ 3.4 billion in Britain, which has a much smaller population. Germans have a different attitude to entertainment, sys Mr. Florin. They feel they need excuses even for going to a football match.
More important is the unusually tight control that German parents maintain over their children?s consumption of media and technology, says Mr. Parker. An industry - rule thumb, he says, is that a 12 year old German boy is as media- savvy as a nine-year old British boy. Selling more games, then, involves changing the attitudes of parents. ??We have to convince German mothers that playing games instils necessary life skills,?? he says.
That could be tricky. The educational value of the internet is obvious; that of gaming, less so. Even in game - made America, the idea that it might be educational ( by promoting strategic thinking for example) is not taken very seriously. Yet there are sign of change. In 2002, Electronic Arts overhauled its German marketing strategy in an attempt to convince opinion- formers of the merits of gaming. Sales of Sony?s PlayStation 2 console grew there last year 11%, faster than anywhere else in Europe except Switzerland. The proportion of homes with PlayStation rose from 6% to 8%. Raising to popularity of gaming in Germany to the levels seen in America and Britain could increase sales of games software $2 billion a year. No wonder Mr. Florin is keen for his countrymen to become more playful

Only 4 words
How does the attitude of German to video games differ from that of other nationalities?
Main reason cultural
Name two things that German use which show that they are not afraid of modern technology .
a) mobile phones
b) broadband internet connection
What shows that they German?s attitude to entertainment is different to that of other Europeans?
Less time of entertainment ?/ feel they need excuses?

For what reason are German children less experienced in the use of media than their Britain and American peers? Tight control

According to Mr. Parker, what must mothers in German be persuaded to believe?
Educational value of games

How do American react to the idea that you could learn something by playing video games?
Not taken very seriously
What do opinion makers have to become aware of?
Educational value

Honking Horns, Car Exhaust And Still, She reads out Loud

BEIJING - On most weekday mornings, as a honking swarm of suburban commuters merges onto the clotted beltway here known as Third Ring Road, Ouyang Junying stands besides the rush hour traffic, opens a book and reads. Out loud. It is one of the worst traffic snarts in the city, with exhaust and noise ring in to the air, but Ms. Ouyang has been going there for almost five years. She is studying English and believe the distraction help her concentrate.
It is also the reason she has become an unlikely sort of celebrity, a mysterious siren of the morning rush hour. For tens of thousands of motorists arriving daily from the northeastern suburbs, she is the Girl Who Reads Out Loud.
She reads, Beijing stares. And wonders: Who is this young woman? Why is she reading in such a terrible spot? Is reading her only reason for being there? ??It is like a stage,?? said Yin. Yan , who drives past while taking her daughter to school. ?? Drivers like me have nothing to do but look at this girl. They, of course, will judge her.??
Beijing has long tolerated, even celebrated, certain types of exhibitionists, with the city?s many parks filled with people practicing taichi or ballroom dancing. White 15 million people living in cramped quarters, the parks serve as the city?s collective background. But Ms. Ouyang does not like them.
?? If I study in a park, people always watch me,?? she said. ?? They are so curious. I don?t feel comfortable. But if cars pass me. I don?t care.??
The daughter of a farmer in rural Hebel Province. Ms. Ouying 29, came to Beijing in 1995. Without connections or wealth, she turned to English for the same reason that many other ambitious a young Chinese do - the possibility a job at a multinational corporation and a chance to make more money and to travel, or even live, abroad.
Like many others, she has taken an English name, Joy. Her first job in Beijing was as a hotel receptionist, where she studied English with other younger workers or alone.
She comes to the Third Ring Road because it is so close to her apartment. She stars at her book, rarely looking up, with her back to the people peering at her. Word about her spread so widely that a Beijing television station last year featured her as a model of hard work. But many people in her audience question the movie of someone who puts herself e on such public display. ?? Some people will say, ? This girl must have some purpose to study here because so many foreigners come down this road,? she said. ?? But I don?t care what they think. I knew what I?m doing.??

Ouyang reads out loud next to a busy street. T
She thinks the heavy traffic around helps her to focus more clearly. T
Ouyang does not like reading in parks because she feels observed. T
A Beijing television presenter said Ouyang worked to hard. F
Ouying is worried for a position with a foreign business. Ng
Ouyang very much enjoys teaching English. Ng x

Chocolate · Anmeldungsdatum: 20.09.2011 Beiträge: 8

Würde mich wirklich sehr freuen, wenn mir jem. sagen würde, ob ich die Fragen von diesen 3 reading comprehension richtig beantwortet habe. bitte

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