Select a frame or named type of talk from your community, such as gossip, flirting, teasing, eating a family dinner, attending class or an interview, then try to discover all of the assumptions about communication related to the frame. What are the informal rules that a person is expected to follow related to that frame? What types of people can or cannot participate in this kind of frame? Find someone from a different culture and compare what you found about your frame with a similar frame from their culture. Discuss how these similarities and differences may create misunderstandings.