It is sometimes difficult to motivate Japanese students to learn English because it is not connected with their everyday life or interests. One method found to be effective at the college level in Japan is to teach students about other cultures in English by preparing slide programs with narration, vocabulary lists, and exercises, supported by background readings with their own exercises. Possible topics for the slide presentations include famous or interesting places, aspects of daily life, ceremonies, and other visually interesting aspects of another country. Background reading should be interesting and relate to the slides, but it need only overlap, not correspond exactly to the narration. Vocabulary lists are developed from the text, possibly with the spelling-check feature of a computer program. Some useful learning activities are skimming, charting, organization, cloze, outline, dictation, correction, and pause and intonation exercises to be used with the readings and narration. A wide variety of followup activities can be used, such as student-prepared slide presentations, visits to famous places in the students' own country, or photograph albums. (MSE)