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

Course descriptions

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John Holstein
Robert MacPherson

• International English Skills Payoff
• LM Function Flash Cards
• Truly informative statements
• Elements in Conducting and Participating in a Meeting
• Tactics to tame tough people

• General Language Points, Quiz 1: Comments
• General Language Points, Quiz 2: Comments

Unit 2: Tourism

• Sample letter
• The Late Great Wall
• Tourism: What's good for you depends...
• Tourism in the Third World
• Trouble in Mexico's Shangri-la
• Angkor temples under threat...
• Among the Living and the Dead of Angkor Wat

Unit 3: Aid

• Sample letter
• Andrew Mwenda: Let's take a new look at African aid (Video. He has a strong accent which you may occasionally find difficulty understanding. But interesting ideas.)
• Why hasn't foreign aid worked?
• A Call for African Aid
• Bush points U.S. aid in the right direction
• The Road to Hell
• Foreign Aid: The Free Market for Hope
• Catastrophe in Southern Asia
• The Cartel of Good Intentions
• The End of Poverty
• TIME report on Tsunami aid
• No more the 'hopeless continent'
• World Food Stocks Dwindling Rapidly, UN Warns
• China Footprint Growing Across Africa
• Cambodia Keeps Taking, Gives Little
• Catastrophe in Southern Asia (This article shows how opponents use different figures to support their position.)
• The G8's Broken Aid Promises
• Example of a well-written letter report

Unit 4: Double Trouble

• Dust Storm Threat to China's Crops
• China Unveils Huge Conservation Plan
• Beijing's Desert Storm
• Sands of Time
• China's Blurred Horizon
• Audio: National Public Radio: China Desertification
• Audio: Public Radio International: China and Global Climate Change. (Click on that title on this page.)
• Audio: Record Levels of 'Yellow Dust' Disturb Life in South Korea
• VOA audio (and script): Record Levels of "Yellow Dust"
• Global Warming Can't Buy Happiness
• Team studies high mercury levels over Steamboat (Chinese pollution hits Colorado): 2008 video
• China Faces Desertification (text from PRI.org)
• China Faces Desertification (audio PRI.org) Save this to your disk, then listen.
• China Rain-making Creates a Storm

Unit 5: Raincoats

• Raincoats: Additional Notes
• An excellent letter

Unit 6: Getting a Job

• Know About Your Company, Your Job
• The IBM Interview
• Resume tips from Purdue On-line Writing Program
• Resumes, Cover Letters and Interviews (This excellent Web site was developed for jobs in education, but the basic principles apply to all college grads hunting for any job.)
• Winning the Body Language Game (About body language that you should and should not use during your job interview.)

International English Skills 2

• Course Introduction

• The Impromptu Oral Presentation

• Oral Presentations (International English Skills 1 workbook, Unit 4)

Unit 1: The Joint Venture

• Homework for Unit 1
• RV articles (2004)
• Venture Homes
• RV-related information and links on the Internet
• Motor Home Magazine
• Winnebago Industries
• LG, IBM decide to go separate ways
• Joint Venture
• BeaudryRV.com (models and prices)
• RV America.com ("Home of the RV industry on the net")
• RV Industry Outlook Worsening (2008)

Unit 2: Absenteeism

• Absenteeism: Causes and Cures
• Combatting Absenteeism
• Work Stress Taking Larger Financial Toll
• Sick of Work
• How to Persuade the Lazy Person

Unit 3: A New Image

• Bank on a New Image
• IDBI Bank
• Portugal Telecom
• What's in a Name?
• Here Come the Brits
• Analysis of Famous Logos
• Mega-brands Can't Buy Everything
• National Bank of Canada

Unit 4: Corruption

• Korea targets corruption at automaker Hyundai
• Spectre of old-style corruption unnerves South Korea
• Graft-Busters Hit the Streets
• Mr. Clean's Dirty Land
• Anti-Corruption Efforts Bear Fruit
• Corruption in Korea: 2006 report from Transparency International
• 'tender'

Unit 5: Computer Security

• Should Hackers Spend Years in Prison?