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English 1, 2
English 3, 4
IES 1, 2
General

Course descriptions

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John Holstein
Robert MacPherson

• pp 55-57
• pp 61-66
• pp 69-72

• Introduction to English 3
• Homework for Unit 1
• Efficient Reading
• Using Structure for Efficient Reading
• Getting Your Point Across
• The Dictionary, the BNC, and Lexical Features
• Resourcefulness in Finding Accurate Word Usage: Possibility
• Word Forms Exercise Answers
• Defining features of thesis statements
• Word Usage Exercise Sample Answers
• Word Usage Exercise Comments
• Population Update: Common problems
• Designators for Urban Demographics
• DRS Exercise Answers

ARTICLES

• China can teach Africa about population zeal (2007)
• Rapid Urbanization in Korea (2004)
• The City as Hope and Horror (TIME essay by Pico Iyer; 2004)
• World Slums: Home to 1 out of 3 (2006)
• Demographic Changes (Click on the link for "Demographic Changes.")(2006)
• The Effects of Global Graying (2004)
• Silver Services for Seniors (Korea, 2004)
• Census: World Population Growth Slowing (2004)
• The Causes and Effects of Global Graying (2004)
• Low Birthrate Causes Alarm (Korea; 2004)
• Baby Blues Hit Korea (2004)
• Population Aging Alarm (Korea; 2005)
• Aging Population Means Labor Shortage (Korea; 2005)
• Korea to Enter Lower Growth Era Because of Aging Population (2004)
• Korea's National Pension Plan (2006)
• Aging Asia (2006)
• A Double Whammy: Low Fertility and Aging (Korea; 2006)
• Low Fertility in Korea (2006)
• Silver Industry Booms; Baby Sector Busts (Korea; 2007)
• South Korea: Lowest Birthrate in the World (2006)
• Heed the warning from Korea's Population Clock (2009)
• Birthrate up, breaking 6-year trend (Korea; 2007)
  

• Word Forms Exercise Answers
• Comments on the Unit 2 Word usage Homework
• Awareness
• DRS Exercise Answers
• 'Female' or 'Woman'? Is a rose really a rose by any name?
• Bi-Directional Topic Sentences

ARTICLES

• BBC Interview with Rasha Al-Sabah (January 2002) (No script available. You'll need RealOne Player. Download it FREE from www.real.com.)
• "Seeing Clearly" (Newsweek article about the historical development of the muslim veil)
• Who is Head of Household?
• Interview with Head of UNIFEM's Arab States Office, Dr Haifa Abu Ghazaleh
• Corporate Korea corks the bottle as women rise
• Aging Asia: Very Old Idea This article addresses the problems of both aging Asian populations and women's rights.

• DRS Exercise Answers
• Word Forms Quiz Answers
• Word Forms Review
• Example of good 3-step answers
• Script: "Insomnia: More Than Just an Inability to Sleep" // "Non-somniacs"
• Yun-deok's diagram of the Dreams Lecture
• Baseball

ARTICLES

• Audio: "Sleep" (supplentary listening from Listening Focus)
• Audio: "Napping dreams" (from When Do Fish Sleep?)
• Link to "Lucid Dreaming" (http://www.lucidity.com) Scroll down the home page to find some very interesting articles.
• Audio: Interview on Sleep and the Sleep Cycle
• Finding the Right Combination for a Good Night's Sleep
• Oh, for the Arms of Morpheus
• Sleep Therapy
• When the Brain Disrupts the Night
• Siesta Time
• Better in Bed
• The Night Shift
• In Search of Sleep (Several articles about sleep from a Newsweek special edition on sleep)

• DRS Exercise Answers
• Word Forms Exercise Answers
• Word Usage Exercise Comments
• Lexicals Game Grid
• Polishing the Thesis Statement
• Introductory Techniques
• Because and the Comma and Koko

ARTICLES

• Questioning Talking Apes
• Chimps - Short term memory better than Humans (2007)
• Koko's Web Site
• Animal Intelligence (Nightline mp3 file)
• Animal Intelligence (the script for the Nightline audio)
• Do Only Humans Have Culture? (Newsweek article)
• Do Animals Have Souls?
• Inside the Animal Mind
• Lessons from a Bird Brain
• Talk with the Animals (from Animal Wise Radio; mp3 file)
• Some apes, birds can think ahead, studies show
• God and Gorillas
• Read BBC's "Cost of Bushmeat" and watch BBC world video on bushmeat trade.(Find the text string "Read..." in the box on the right, and click the links there.)

• DRS Exercise Answers
• Decisive or Decided?
• Act or Action? Act or Behave?
• Word Forms Exercise Answers
• Follow through and its prepositions
• Keep and its prepositions
• Word Usage Homework
• Dr. Simon and Rodney White
• Would the author of "How to Get a Job" hire Rodney?
• Baseball

ARTICLES

• Resumes, Cover Letters, Interviews

English 4

Unit 6

• Introduction to English 4
• Homework for Unit 6
• DRS Exercise Answers
• Word Forms Exercise Answers
• Word Usage Exercise Comments
• Misleading surveys and polls
• Interactive Word Forms Quiz
• Interactive Lexicals Flash Cards
• You're in Charge Unit 12 Exercise 7

ARTICLES

• Japan
  • In Japan, the Social Safety Net Fails
  • Part-time Worker Trend Worries Japan
    
  • Japanese Workers Find There Are No Guarantees
  • Update from Kobe
  • The Problem of Perceived Diligence
  • Japanese Ask, "Why Change?"
  • Japan's X Generation
  • Japanese Workers Are All Work, LIttle Play
  • Japanese Youth Showing Different Work Attitude
  • Toyota: Suicide and worker depression at the world's most profitable manufacturer
  • Wave of retiring workers could force big things
  • Managing the Nintendo Generation
• Korea
  • South Korea pushes to dissolve 'the old way' of business culture
  • Labor Disputes Imperil Foreign Investment in South Korea
    
  • Nobody Wants the 3-D Jobs (Korea)
  • Koreans Work Less, Earn More
  • Workers Reluctant to Assume Higher Posts
  • College Students Prefer Public Jobs
  • Frenzy for Public Jobs Prevails
• USA
  • Sick of Work
  • NOT the Continent That Knows How to Relax

• Word Forms Exercise Answers
• DRS Exercise Answers
• Interactive Word Forms Review

ARTICLES

• Inside Iraq's Unusual Surveillance Game
• One student's Korean Space
• Full-bodied Greetings (Gary Rector)
• Brazilian Body Language
• Decoding Body Language
• Winning the Body Language Game (Body language at the employment interview)
• Body Language Speaks Volumes About Bill Gates
• Body Language Speaks Volumes
• The Power of Body Language (video)
• Body Language Essentials for Business (video)
• Decoding Body Language

• Baseball
• Lexicals Puzzle Answers
• Interactive Word Forms
• Word Forms Exercises Answers
• Agree on, or agree with?
• DRS Exercise Answers

ARTICLES

• Without Words: Body Language and Selling
• How to Sell Using Your Body

• DRS Exercise Answers
• Practice: Prepositions and Verb Completers
• Word Forms Exercises Answers
• Reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European: Schleicher's Fable
• Lexicals Game Answers

ARTICLES

• The Loulan Beauty: An original Indo-European?
• The Origin of Proto-Indo-European
• Linguistic Cross-fertilization: Korean and English
• Japan's Korean Roots
• Will the Internet Always Speak English?
• Lingua Franca Definition
• The Lingua Franca of the Net
• Concept (its forms and their meanings)
• Indo-European Languages (from Dictionary of Languages)
• Whorf, Language and Education
• Language Profiles: Korean (a UCLA site)
• English as an Official Language?
• Why 175 Million Chinese Are Studying English
• What is a Lingua Franca?
• Korean: Endless Linguistic Change

Unit 10

• DRS Exercise Answers

• Word Forms Exercise Answers

• Lexicals Puzzle Answer Key

• Word Usage Exercise Comments

• Baseball

ARTICLES

• The Changing Korean Family

• Korean Elderly

• Grandparenting

• Advice for Grandparents

• Kangaroo Kids: More Grownups Stay in Parental Nest
• Generations Reverse Roles
• Journey Into Old Age