Freshman English Reading A: Greetings gestures・挨拶のジェスチャー

Hello!

How are you? Today, let's look at greetings (挨拶) in a different way - gestures for greetings. 

Look at the picture above. It shows some different greetings that people say in different languages. But how do people show what they feel when they meet people for the first time? 

Activity

Look at these pictures below. They show different gestures for greetings in different cultures. Look at these and talk about what people in which cultures would do when greeting people. 

例：This first one is easy! This is what people in Japan would do.

Now try these! What countries or cultures would people make these greetings gestures in? Quiz each other on these!

Have fun guessing with these! See you next time!

Images: Top - By Epson291 at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6047519/Bow – screenshot taken from https://thetruejapan.com/useful-phrases-for-meeting-people-in-japan/Cheek kiss - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2913072/US-Secretary-State-John-Kerry-visits-Paris-terror-attacks.html/Thai wai - by my wife, permission granted for publication under a free license (PD) - Photo taken by Bualong Sebulke, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1523095/Namaste - by Saptarshi Biswas - Oberoi Employees_Rishi (23), CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7308021/Handshake - By Angélica Martínez - Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26395042/Hug - By Tyler McCulloch - I'm so happy man. Uploaded by Skeezix1000, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9650816/Maori hongi - screenshot taken from original photograph on http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2013/08/maori-elders-explain-meaning-of-hongi.html
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