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
All rights reserved on original hongi image to the copyright holder(s). I do not own the rights to the image. Uploaded for classroom purposes only.
All rights reserved on original hongi image to the copyright holder(s). I do not own the rights to the image. Uploaded for classroom purposes only.
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