UNIT 10 Saying Goodbye Integrated Skills Development Passage A Beginning and an End "I've forgotten the last time that I cried. But I really can not cheer up now," said Philip, a graduate majoring in...
UNIT 9 Welcoming Integrated Skills Development Passage Culture Shock When a person moves from one culture to another, he suddenly finds that much of what he has learned about interpreting the actions...
UNIT 8 Making an Apology Integrated Skills Development Passage Addressing the First-Name Custom The first-naming is almost always done by people young enough to be our children. Last year, I sprained...
UNIT 7 Conference Integrated Skills Development Passage The Knowledge Economy Is Coming Human society has developed through several stages. Sociologist Daniel Bell calls these stages "pre-industrial,"...
UNIT 6 We Need Retraining Integrated Skills Development Passage Improve Communication Skills Your work in business will involve communication—a lot of it—because communication is a major and essen...
UNIT 5 A Manager Is Wanted Integrated Skills Development Passage Managers in Need There has been an impressive change during the first 30 years after the end of World War II. Those three decades saw a...
UNIT 4 Getting and Giving Information About People Integrated Skills Development Dialogues A. Could I Join the School Library? Lizzy wants to join the school library. She is talking with the librarian...
UNIT 3 Introduce People to Each Other Integrated Skills Development Dialogues A. Lizzy, This Is My Friend Li Hong is a mutual friend of Lizzy and Chang. Chang works at the guest house of the technical...
UNIT 2 Self-Introduction Integrated Skills Development Dialogues A. I'm from South Africa Lizzy is in her classroom. She shares a desk with Wu Yong, a boy student. Today is the first day of the new te...
UNIT 1 Greeting People You Meet for the First Time Integrated Skills Development Dialogues A. How Do you Do? Li Hong is a receptionist. She works at a guest house of a technical school. Lizzy is an ov...