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 Overseas Students Integrated Skills Development Passage Au pair "Au pair" is an arrangement under which a girl who is not less than seventeen years old comes to the United Kingdom primarily to...
UNIT 3 Job Hunting Integrated Skills Development Passage Fruitful Interview The coming early summer is again the time when college students are busy with job interviews in the hope that four years hig...
UNIT 2 Personal Selling Integrated Skills Development Passage Selling Styles Selling styles differ in many ways but one fundamental difference is between the sales-oriented and the customer-oriented a...
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...