Learning another language is becoming aware of another culture, and foreign language competence is a means not only to acquire knowledge about and skills of efficient cross-cultural communication but also a means of presenting our own culture to the world. The book presents the material (texts, communicative tasks, vocabulary development activities) for the development of intercultural skills on various cross-cultural topics: culture shock and learning to survive in a new culture, social etiquette, cross-cultural interaction, cultural similarities and differences, cultural stereotypes, ethnic jokes. The focus is on the presentation of national identity, values, cultural peculiarities in the English language.