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“So-So” is NO-NO

“So-So” is NO-NO

China is a developing country and will remain a developing country so long as the national standard (excuse) for poor services and poor products is “This is China, so-so is ok.”

From sales clerks in department stores,  to policemen on the street,  to medical staff in the best hospitals, service is extremely [...]

NOT WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER

THE TRUE STORY

http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/notwithoutmydaughter.php

An Inconvenient Truth

Global warming is so serious that everybody who is living on earth shouldn’t neglect it; we should go into action so that we can protect our exclusive planet.

Fact or fiction?

ERIN BROCKOVITCH

This movie raises issues about Corporate Culture, Environmental Protection, safety in the workplace, integrity toward the workforce, female role models, class actions, and child care by single parents.

After you have discussed this movie in class, post your comments about the movie.

E CLUB at HIT

Implementation of the Holistic English Program began at HIT in September 2011 in an environment that appeared, on first blush, very conducive to language acquisition. The University web site was most encouraging.

E-Club

E-Club is built on April 2005. It is a student academic organization of Harbin Institute of Tech nology (H.I.T).

E-Club [...]

MAKE A NEW FRIEND

MAKE A NEW FRIEND

Seek and locate a foreign student (L2 English speaker). Engage in a lengthy English discussion with them or engage in an activity such as eating a meal, shopping etc.

Write a summary of your encounter in WORD. Make all corrections in WORD. Post your experience on my web site.

Post your [...]

BUSINESS ENGLISH

BUSINESS ENGLISH

In the first week of the new August 2011 (ten week) semester, two classes of senior English majors began Business English in the Holistic English Lab, utilizing the HE methodology.

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INITIAL CLASS SELF-EVALUATIONS

On the first class day the students are asked to answer the following questions:

Which emotion best describes your [...]

JOKE

English in China – The Unfunny Joke

Why English Fever?

English fever is running rampant throughout all levels of education in China and in every province. There are three simple reasons:

China’s colleges and universities have taken on a hugh debt to finance satellite campuses to educate the mandated increased enrollment. [...]

READ MORE

The cornerstones of Holistic English are read more, listen more, write more and speak more English.

Students constantly inquire what they can or should read.  It is a constant struggle to get students to read more English.

There are 4 news/magazine kiosks on the HIT campus that between them sell fewer than 50 English newspapers [...]

OPINION

The Chinese Government, Chinese teachers of English and Chinese school administrators all claim that China has a National EFL (English as a Foreign Language) program.

Chinese who go abroad to an English speaking country become fluent in English within four to six months.

Foreign students who come to China to learn Putonghua become fluent in [...]