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Have You Ever Been
Culture Shocked?

Culture shock can be
described in 4 stages

• The honeymoon
• The crisis
• The recovery
• The adjustment

You too will experience
culture shock

• Near universal experience
• With understanding
comes control

fIGure 13.7
slides with space for Listener’s notes

thesis and Main points The thesis of a speech, as explained in Chapter 11, is your sin-
gle most important concept, your main or central idea. The thesis of a speech of description
simply states what you’ll describe in your speech:
The child acquires language in four stages. For an excellent special occasion
There are three steps to purchasing stock online. speech take a look at “A Speech
of Dedication” at tcbdevito
Four major events led to the Arab Spring. .blogspot.com.
The main points of a speech of description are the major subdivisions of the thesis. You
derive your main points from your thesis by asking strategic questions:
What are the four stages in child language acquisition?
What are the three steps to purchasing stock online?
What events led to the Arab Spring?