Current and innovative instructional materials and techniques for developing intercultural understanding in international business administration students are discussed, drawing on a seminar on French business language instruction. A group of classroom activities concerning the adoption of English words into the French language, which can be adapted in foreign language or cross-cultural education, are described. Two preliminary activities demonstrate that intercultural understanding is a two-way process, often requiring some historical knowledge. Following these activities, students are given a current events exercise to reinforce the constant necessity for intercultural understanding. In this exercise, articles written from both American and French points of view are examined, and the issues are debated. Three activities based on the articles' lexicon follow. The French article on which the activities are based, and related English articles, are appended. (MSE)