“Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian and it is all organised by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the cooks are English, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, and it is all organised by the Italians”.
Well, here I’m posting to you a National Stereotypes Exercises extracted from Taboos and Issues Book .
Taboos and Issues is a photocopiable resource book for teachers. It contains 40 discussion lessons, which give students the opportunity to talk about more controversial issues. Each lesson consists of two pages of texts, language workd, discussion questions and activities.
The topics covered in Taboos and Issues are those which occur daily on TV and in our newspapers, but which do not normally appear in teaching materials.
This exercises is about national stereotypes, you can download the pdf file at the end of this post and so the key answer.
Enjoy it!
Click here to download PDF – Taboos and Issues – National Stereotypes Exercise