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BUSINESS ENGLISH mistake sentences and corrections uploaded. (pg. 14)

A couple new example questions that might be on the test were written (pg. 2). NOTE: I will ask some OTHER questions also that I didn’t tell you about in this file (I’m not going to tell you EVERY question I will ask ;) ). So, know the articles well for those questions.

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OFFICE SCHEDULE

BEGINNING ENGLISH CONVERSATION 2(초급영어회화Ⅱ) Final Test Hints

BUSINESS ENGLISH(실무영어) Final Test Hints

PRACTICAL ENGLISH COMPOSITION (실용영작문) Final Test Hints

ESSAY WRITING (에세이작성연습) Final Test Hints

BEGINNING ENGLISH CONVERSATION 2 Articles/Handouts/Mistakes to Correct, etc.

Mistake Sentences and Corrections to Know

GOAL SETTING

A POOR BOY’S DREAM

STEPS TO REACHING YOUR GOALS:

10 TIPS FOR SUCCESSFUL PRESENTATIONS

SIMPLE PRESENTATION SUGGESTIONS

WHO SHOULD YOU MARRY (from Dr. Dobson)

BUSINESS ENGLISH Articles/Handouts/Mistakes to Correct, etc.**

Mistake Sentences and Corrections to Know

MAKE POVERTY HISTORY PRESENTATION (English Version)

MAKE POVERTY HISTORY PRESENTATION (Korean Version)

MAKE POVERTY HISTORY PRESENTATION—PART 2 (About Land Rent/Jubilee Economics)

PRACTICAL ENGLISH COMPOSITIONArticles/Handouts/Mistakes to Correct, etc.

Mistake Sentences and Corrections to Know

Examples of How to Cite References

Mistakes and Corrections to Know

TRUTH PART 1—WHY IS TRUTH IMPORTANT?

TRUTH PART 2: HOW DO YOU IDENTIFY TRUTH (easier version than the class handout)

ESSAY WRITINGArticles/Handouts/Mistakes to Correct, etc.

Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture Summary: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

OFFICE SCHEDULE

These are the times and dates I’ll be in my office and you can bring me homework to check, pick up checked assignments, make up anything that is missed or ask me any other questions you need to. If you can’t make any of these times, please call me and I’ll arrange another time.

Thursday (18th) from 12pm-4pm

Monday (22nd) from 10:45am-3pm

Friday (26th) from 11am-3pm

Monday (29th) from 11am-3pm

BEGINNING ENGLISH CONVERSATION 2(초급영어회화Ⅱ) Final Test Hints

FINAL TEST TIME: Thursday, 10am, December 11, 인문대-506 (Room 311 is being used by another class)

  1. Know the answers from the midterm. Maybe 10-20% of questions on the final will be from the midterm test.
  2. Know the grammar structures in the book chapter 3 & 4. Know the idiom and article contentin the book. Know how to answer questions, do the roleplays in the book.
  3. Know the future and past continuous grammar structures for translation and speed tests.
  4. Know the articles below:
    **Goal setting, Achieving Goals and Steps to achieving goals (See article section for your class. It’s below)
    **Presentation methods
    **Dating and Who to Marry
    Know how how to write answers of about 2-10 sentences on questions like:
    EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
    a) What are 4 things you need to think about before you get married?
    a) What are 2 reasons that John Goddard did his adventures?

b) What are 5 areas that John Goddard says that we should make goals in?

c) Why does John Goddard say it’s important to set goals for your life?

d) What were the 4 steps John Goddard used to set and achieve goals?

e) List 3 other ideas that are important when you set goals (from the list of 7 goals)?

f) What are 5 things you should remember when you do presentations?

  1. Know how correct mistakes in grammar from student homework and presentations.

BUSINESS ENGLISH(실무영어) Final Test Hints

FINAL TEST TIME: Tuesday, 12 noon, December 16, 인문대-211

  1. Know the answers from the midterm. Maybe 10-20% of questions on the final will be from the midterm test.
  2. Know the content of the Business English textbook chapters 4, 5, 11. Know how to do conversations such as on page 42. Look at the pages in the back that chapters 4,5,11 refer to. Look for principles/main ideas that are taught. Here are a couple examples of questions I might ask on the midterm:
    a) What are three benefits of free trade? page 131
    b) Why is Apple such a successful company?
    c) Describe what a brand includes and why a company’s brand is important.
    d) What is the product life cycle?
    e) How can you help an old brand stay dominant/strong?
    f) Why should we be careful about investing in companies that we hear about in chat rooms and by e-mail (especially from strangers)?
    g) Why should you have a diverse investiment strategy?
    h) Describe what is meant by shares, bonds, stocks, and dividends?
    and others.
  3. Know the topics/handouts that we studied since there will be quite a few questions from them.:
    **Make Poverty History—ways to stop poverty.(Article below in English and Korean)
    **Land Rent—a solution for poverty.(Article below in English).
    **A Life of Financial Freedom
    EXAMPLE QUESTIONS:
    1) What are 3 causes of extreme poverty? Include a real story and statistics.
    2) What are 5 ways that can help to solve poverty (there are 8 ways given in the file)?
    3) What do many experts from east and west, religious and atheist philosophies agree is the most effective way to stop poverty.?
    4) Explain either the Jubilee system or the Land Rent system and why they work so well. Include one real example where they worked very well.
    5) What are 7 important principles that you will use from “A life of Financial Freedom”?
    6) What kind of debt may be necessary? What kind of debt must be avoided if at all possible.
    7) Why is it important to record your expenses and have a budget?
    8)NEW: What were three important things that you will try to use in your life from the article “A life of Financial Freedom”. How will you use them?
    9) NEW: What does S.W.O.T. stand for? Explain briefly each letter and what you should know.
  4. Know the cover letter article and make sure you know how to find and correct cover letter mistakes. I will give you a cover letter with many mistakes in it of all kinds. You need to correct mistakes such as: spelling, layout, capitalization, spacing, indentation, too general, irrelevant information, grammar, inconsistent format, etc.
  5. Know how correct mistakes in grammar from student presentations. See pg. 14.

PRACTICAL ENGLISH COMPOSITION (실용영작문) Final Test Hints

FINAL TEST TIME: Wednesday, 2pm, December 10, 인문대-311

  1. Know the answers from the midterm. Maybe 10-20% of questions on the final will be from the midterm test.
  2. Know chapters 5, 7, 9, 10 from “Introduction to Academic Writing”.
    --check the grammar and forms and the principles that are taught in the book. Possible example questions:
    a) How do you develop coherence in writing paragraphs or essays?
    b) What are 2 different ways that comparison/contrast paragraphs/essays can be organized.
    c) What are the 3 parts of an essay?
    d) Describe the funnel type of organization.
    e) What’s the purpose of the introduction paragraph of an essay?
    f) Know how to make an outline.
  3. KNOW HOW TO USE AND CORRECT REFERENCE AND USE QUOTATIONS PROPERLY!!! See short list below from my handout and from Yale University, the textbook examples of quotations in chapter 10 and the references in the 5 example essays online at:
  4. Know how to write paragraphs/short essays that use principles and ideas from the book and the handouts I have given you.
  5. Know how to answer questions about handouts from the class:
    TRUTH PART 1—WHY IS TRUTH IMPORTANT?
    TRUTH PART 2—HOW DO YOU IDENTIFY TRUTH?
    EXAMPLE QUESTIONS:
    1) Explain why truth is important for our lives.
    2) What are 3 good ways to find truth?
    3) What are 3 good ways to test if a source is credible/trustworthy or not?
    4) What are the 3 tests that Aristotle used to test if a book was truthful?
    5) What kinds of sources are not trustworthy? Why?
  6. Know how correct mistakes in grammar from student essays.

ESSAY WRITING (에세이작성연습) Final Test Hints

Midterm Test: Thursday, 6:30pm, 인문대-211

  1. Know the answers from the midterm. Maybe 10-20% of questions on the final will be from the midterm test.
  2. Know the book, chapters 4, 6, 7, 9 . Know how to answer questions and fix mistakes according to the rules in the book in grammar, punctuation, format, unity, coherence, and other principles that are taught in the book.
    a) Know how to write a funnel introduction.
    b) What are different logical ways to organize ideas?
    c) What is the function of the concluding paragraph?
    d) What are 2 different ways to organize a cause and effect essay?
    e) What are common problems that people make in their thesis statements (chapter 4) . What should be included in a thesis statement in an argumentative essay?
  3. Know how to write paragraphs/short essays that follow the book principles, especially the ideas on logical organization, coherence, comparison contrast essays and argumentative essays. 1 essay will be on one of these topics: how to improve our health and length of life, homelessness, ethics of gay marriage, problems of divorce, how to handle refugees, co-ed classes, free trade, whether to start a new business, comparing parenting methods,pros and cons of international marriage/dating, which political party you prefer or topics like that. The other topic will be on topics that you will see on test day .
  4. KNOW HOW TO REFERENCE ACCURATELY. See the article section for examples.
  5. Know the ideas on success from Randy Pausch and ideas on voting and why it’s important. These will be short articles.

BEGINNING ENGLISH CONVERSATION 2 Articles/Handouts/Mistakes to Correct, etc.

Mistake Sentences and Corrections to Know

  1. It is very important to establish image and name recognition for the fast food.
  2. But there are still a lot of people to support fast food.
  3. For that reason the people got obesity and some other diseases in the adults.
  4. Celebrity put on a fashion item, after the item is the internet's top word.
  5. Fashion trend is depend on celebrity.
  6. First, Society be uniformity.
  7. In these days, people often shop through the media like home-shopping and the internet shopping.
  8. Lastly, you can buy product which you hardly find in markets.
  9. When things do not like, you should returned goods.
  10. If you do this, you maybe a waste of time, money
  11. In addition, the price of famous manufacturers are too cheap, you suspect at least once.
  12. Since 20th century, all kinds of tools and medium that use for education.
  13. Recently, computer and internet are spotlighted as a new education from media.
  14. Especially, a singer, Rain, is a well-known artist over the world.
  15. In their mind, women more suitable for the workplace, and they cannot imagine that men work in a hospital, but they are not doctors.
  16. At first, There were a lot of negative view, but more and more There were a lot of positive view
  17. But, media's commercial value makes 얼짱 syndrome.
  18. many women is searching for ways lose more and more weight, dieting to view model's images.
  19. Our group will presentation about media & smoking.
  20. Media made a great contribution to universal civilization.
  21. But, as the Media advanced and developed people get more stimulated
  22. First of all, media influences smoking both of good way and bad way.
  23. So, recently, children fight much more comparing with past
  24. In fact, When TV takes the place at a part of daily life; we had wishful thinking about TV.
  25. A statistical date showed that almosy all adults over 20 years old watch TV 2 or 3 hours a day.
  26. Teenagers' sexual media diet when 14 to 16 years old were about 5 times more likely to have had sexual intercourse.
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  1. It is very important for the fast food companies to establish image and name recognition.
  2. But, there are still a lot of people who support fast food restaurants and buy from them often.
  3. For that reason many people have gottenproblems with obesity and some other diseases asadults.
  4. Celebrities put on a fashion item and after that, the item is the internet's top word.
  5. Fashion trendsoftendepend on celebrities.
  6. First, society is becoming quite uniform.
  7. These days, people often shop through mediasources like home-shopping on TV and internet shopping.
  8. Lastly, media such as internet can help you buy products which you can hardly ever find in the markets.
  9. When you get things you do not like, you should return the goods.
  10. If you have to do this, you will wastetime and money.
  11. In addition, if the price of products of famous manufacturers is too cheap, you should be suspicious and check things carefully at least once.
  12. Since the 20th century began, all kinds of tools and mediumshave been created and been used for education.
  13. Recently, computers and internet have been spotlighted as new education ways thatmedia can be used.
  14. The singer Rain is an especially well-known artist all over the world.
  15. In their minds, women are more suitable for the workplace, and they cannot imagine menworking in a hospital, and not being doctors.
  16. At first, there were a lot of negative views, but more and more, there were a lot of positive views.
  17. But, the media's commercial value has made the 얼짱 syndrome.
  18. Many women are searching for ways to lose more and more weight and they are dieting to achieve an image like model's images.
  19. Our group will make a presentation aboutmedia & smoking.
  20. Media has made great contributions to universal civilization.
  21. But as mediahas advanced and developed, people have become more stimulated.
  22. First of all, media influences smoking in both goodways and bad ways.
  23. So recently, children are fighting much more compared with the past.
  24. In fact, when TV takes the place of a part of daily life,peoplesometimes engage in wishful thinking about what they have seen on TV.
  25. Statisticaldatahas showed that almost all adults over 20 years old watch TV 2 or 3 hours a day.
  26. The teenagers with a significant sexual media diet when 14 to 16 years old were about 5 times more likely to have had sexual intercoursethan those who weren't exposed to media very much.

GOAL SETTING

DR. JOHN GODDARD is one of the world’s most famous explorers and adventurers. His philosophy from the age of 15 has been: "To dare is to do, to fear is to fail."

One day when he was 15 years old, he was bored. It was raining outside and there was nothing to do. Suddenly, he got an idea. He could write down a list of things he wanted to do in his life. He could write a list of life goals. He wrote for a long time. When he was done, he had written down 127 goals that he wanted to accomplish in his life. Some of them were easy and some were hard. Now he is over 70 years old and he has accomplished over 109 of these goals as well as over 400 other goals.

Here are some of the goals that John wrote down as a teenager (you can see the whole list on internet at

John Goddard's Life List (The “*” means the goal has been achieved)

EXPLORE:
1. * Nile River

2. * Amazon River

STUDY CULTURES IN:

9. * The Congo

10. * New Guinea

13. * The Sudan (nearly buried alive in a sandstorm)

14. * Australia

CLIMB:

21. Mt. Everest

25. * Mt. Kilimanjaro

26. * Mt. Ararat, Turkey

30. * The Matterhorn

37.*Work in medicine and exploration

38. Visit every country in the world (only 30 more to visit)

40. * Learn to fly a plane

VISIT:
54. North and South Poles

55. * Great Wall of China

58. * The Galapagos Islands

60. * The Taj Mahal

SWIM IN:

68. * Lake Victoria

69. * Lake Superior
OTHERS

73. * Become an Eagle Scout

74. * Dive in a submarine

77. * Ride an elephant, camel, ostrich and bronco

80. * Play flute and violin

84. * Go on a church mission

85. * Follow the John Muir trail

89. * Learn jujitsu

90. * Teach a college course

93. Appear in a Tarzan movie

94. Own a horse, chimpanzee, cheetah, ocelot, and coyote (yet to own a chimp or cheetah)

96. * Build own telescope

101. * Run mile in 5 minutes

102. * Weigh 175 pounds stripped (still does)

103. * Perform 200 sit-ups and 20 pull-ups

104. * Learn French, Spanish and Arabic

110. * Read the Bible from cover to cover

111.* Read works from Shakespeare, Plato, Aristotle, Dickens, Thoreau, Rousseau, Conrad, Hemingway, Twain, Tolstoy, Longfellow, Keats, Bacon.

114. * Compose music
116. * Watch fire-walking ceremony (In Bali and Surinam)
118. * Light a match with .22 rifle

121. * Become a member of the Explorer's Club and the Adventure's Club

125. Visit the moon ("Someday, if God wills")

126. * Marry and have children (has five children)

127. * Live to see the 21st century

John didn't want his life to be just one of chance. He thought about what he wanted to experience very early in his life and wrote them down as goals. This helped him focus on what he wanted to accomplish and his life shows the power of setting goals for your life.

John has lived with and studied 260 cultures and tribes (head hunters, pygmies, hippies and others), He has climbed 12 of the worlds highest mountains, conducted 14 major expeditions, gone down 15 of the worlds most treacherous rivers including the Amazon and Nile (he was the first man to explore the whole Nile river). He has visited 120 countries. He has run a five minute mile. He hasparachuted from planes. He has read the whole Bible and the encyclopedia cover to cover and many other books. He has followed the travels of Marco Polo through all of the Middle East, Asia and China.He has visited the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal in India, and climbed the Matterhorn (during a blizzard when even other professional climbers wouldn’t climb).