1. Click here to download nine definitions of intercultural encounter by different authors.

2. Read them carefully. What do the definitions have in common and in what ways do they differ from one another? Click here for a commentary.

3. Cut out the nine definitions and organise them in a diamond shape, like the one you can see on the left, ranking them according to their usefulness for the (inter-)cultural work you are engaged in. Put the most useful at the top and the least useful at the bottom.

4. Click here for a commentated example against which you can compare your own ranking.