1.

Answer the following questions

a) Internationalism

b) Because they created their own sub-culture

Because they are constantly moving.

c) Person that move to other places.

Person that moves into another culture.

d) With other TCKs

e) They know more countries and cultures.

f) Because they involve in three cultures: their parents, the place where they live and the mix of both.

2. Find the word in the column on the right that could meaningfully replace each of the words on the left.

a) 14 15

b) 15

c) 2 10

d) 6

e) 8

f) 13

g) 4 2

h) 9 1

i) 1 3

j) 7

3. Scan the text to find whether the following sentences are true or false.
 a) False, Third Culture Kids are not a new phenomenon.

b) True, they often relocate to new homes or country.

c) True, they are exposed to new cultures and to other people in the community who also move constantly.

d) True, the question ‘’Who I am?’’ is frequently asked by TCK.

e) I don’t know False, they position themselves by integrating a huge pool of values.

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5. Draw a chart and sort the sentences numbered 1-30 below into three categories.
 relationships quickly – they cut through
mobility – TCKs
many of the initial levels of diffidence know

when forming relationships. 11 They live an airport better than

more in the present, more for the most people.

moment. 13 They make great 6 They have

difficulty
culture bridges - they have multiple
with commitment
frames of to

people, places,
schools,

or school
systems as

these constantly
change.

10 They feel
different

from others, which

Advantages of TCKs Challenges of is
TCKs
difficult in forming peer

relationships.
3 They adapt quickly to unfamiliar 1 A crisis of identity –
12 Loss of
countries and people. ‘’Who I am?’’ relationships,

4 They converse well with adults. 8 loss of community

or
2 A life filled with high
They stablish
reference. 20 A school is equal to a newcomers into a

privileged lifestyle – loss of their world. community.

their socioeconomic 18 A feeling of 16 TCKs often

become
lifestyle tends to be
powerlessness that too observant and
at a higher standard they
due to the
have no control sensitive.
over
advantages of
17 They are
events and that politically
relocations or the these are
astute – TCKs
expatriate status often taken out of tend to
their
offered by some read the newspaper
hands anyway by and
companies. the
watch the news
inevitability of the more

often than other

move.
children.
21 They have
19 They prefer to
problems with

decision making.22 socialize with

other
Rootlessness and
TCKs as they enter
restlessness can be

a problem. 24 The
adulthood and often
elusive concept:
become expatriates
‘Where is home?’
25 The frequent
themselves.
necessity of
23 They speak
changing countries more

and homes.26 The than one

language –
sense of
often they speak
belonging three

everywhere and or four.

nowhere. 28
27 They are great
Travelling is way of

life - many holidays

debaters. They are
are often

aware of the

background of
political
taken outside the decisions and

home country. implications for the

29 An uncertain people concerned.

cultural identity.

When returning to

their ‘passport’

country, they are

misunderstood by

their fellow

countrymen.