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The TOEIC Students at Warema
1 February 2011
Dear Students, one important element in your preparation for the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) is a good vocabulary in a variety of subject areas. The teaching materials provide a list of ‘six hundred essential words’, which TOEIC candidates are encouraged to learn at a rate of twelve words a day in the weeks that lead up to the test. So, while the time that remains for you to prep are for the test is quite sufficient, it is also obvious that the lessons can only cover some of the material and that you have to make a daily learning effort outside the lessons as well. The ‘six hundred essential words’ are grouped into five lots of twelve words under each of the following headings, so that you could think of your learning task as a fifty days long exercise. I. II. III. IV. V.
General Business Office Issues Personnel Purchasing Financing and Budgeting
Management Issues VII. Restaurants and Events VIII. Travel IX. Entertainment X. Health VI.
You will note that I have placed hyperlinks into categories (I), (II), (III), (IV) and (V) of the above ten categories. Please open those hyperlinks and familiarise yourself with the lists of twelve words to which each of them leads. Consider those sixty words as a first batch of required learning for our next two lessons. I have also appended an exercise to the lists of twelve words of the categories (I) and (II). Please do those two exercises by printing the paragraphs and completing them with the missing words. (You may find it easier to print the required pages from this download link, rather than from the online viewer.) Then please bring the thus completed paragraphs with you to our lesson on the Wednesday of this week. As for the next three categories - (III), (IV) and (V) - please write a short paragraph of two or three sentences which contain some of the words from one or
a letter of 1 February 2011 by Ingo Porada to the TOEIC Students at Warema more of those categories. You can model your own short paragraph on the paragraph that forms the exercise for categories (I) and (II), but you do not need to make it that long, and you do not need to use all the words from the vocabulary lists. Just try to use four or five of the words from categories (III), (IV) and (V) in your own paragraph. For guidance, you could look up some of those words. I would recommend the website www.linguee.com for that purpose; it gives usage examples of most words and even audio clips with their pronunciations as well. During the lessons, we will do additional exercises with some of the new vocabulary, as well as some selected exercises from our course book. And I will provide you with further such vocabulary lists, in the same manner of organisation, already again after our lesson of this week, and then again from week to week thereafter as well. If you need further ideas about the context in which the respective words might be useful, you could look them up - the nouns at any rate - on the English pages or the Simple English pages of Wikipedia, for example. I would also recommend to you the several ‘Visual Dictionary’ and ‘Pictorial Dictionary’ sites - including www.visuwords.com, www.visual.merriam-webster.com and www.pdictionary.com - that you may find when you ‘google’ those expressions. Some of those sites also have their own exercises. Furthermore, as learning resources in audio format, we have - first of all - the compact disks in our course book. In addition, if we can get them to work on the audio equipment that is in the classroom, I will gladly assemble some relevant MP3 files for collective listening by us during the lessons. Finally, I give you here a tentative signpost for our lesson of this week: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
short reflection on the previous week’s lesson: discussion of homework (i. e., the above-mentioned exercises): further exercises with the new vocabulary for this week: a model test in listening comprehension: any queries and loose ends . . . :
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To prepare for the model test in listening comprehension, you could practice with some of the tracks on compact disk one in the course book, if you still have enough time before tomorrow’s lesson. Best regards
Ing o ii
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鳳 雷 多
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The TOEIC Students at Warema
7 February 2011
Dear Students, with these lines I am again sending you several hyper-links to new vocabulary for the TOEIC. Last week I had already mentioned that there are ‘six hundred essential words’ in five lots of twelve words under the ten headings which I show again below. Under each of these headings there are five sub-categories, and I now give you the sub-categories under the headings ‘Personnel’ and ‘Purchasing’. In those two main categories, I have hyper-linked twelve new words each directly to one sub-category, plus also an exercise, similar to the exercises of last week, for each of those two sub-categories. Then I have also hyper-linked twelve new words each to three of the five main categories for which I had not already given you vocabulary last week. Please, again, try to do the exercises in the first two hyper-links and also to write a few sentences with some of the new words in the further three hyper-links. (You can print out any of this new material from here.) I. II.
General Business Office Issues
III.
Personnel (a) Job Advertising and Recruiting (b) Applying and Interviewing (c) Hiring and Training (d) Salaries and Benefits (e) Promotions, Pensions, and Awards
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V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X.
Purchasing (a) Shopping (b) Ordering Supplies (c) Shipping (d) Invoices (e) Inventory Financing and Budgeting Management Issues Restaurants and Events Travel Entertainment Health
Also, I want to suggest that you look closely at some exercises in your course book every week. In particular, I want to recommend to you, to begin with, the ‘targets’ 17 to 33 from Chapter 2 and 7 to 14 from Chapter 3. I know that I am not much earlier than last week in sending you this new material, but I hope that you will nonetheless get a chance to browse through it before we meet again on the Wednesday of this week. Finally, I give you here again a tentative signpost for our lesson of this week: (1) (2) (3) (4)
review of the parts of the model test which you did last week: discussion of homework (i. e., the above-mentioned exercises): further exercises with the new vocabulary for this week: an audio-supported exercise, either from the model test that you have already begun or from one of the ‘targets’ or mini-tests in your course book: (5) any queries and loose ends . . . : Best regards
Ingo
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The TOEIC Students at Warema
11 February 2011
Dear Students, below is a further expanded list of headings and sub-headings that refers to the ‘six hundred essential words’ for the TOEIC. There are again five hyper-links, and the hyper-linked pages Financing Budgeting / Accounting and Management Issues / Board Meetings contain an exercise as well (in addition to the vocabulary).
I.
General Business (a) Contracts (b) Marketing
IV.
(c) Warranties (d) Business Planning (e) Conferences
II. III.
Office Issues
Purchasing (a) Shopping (b) Ordering Supplies (c) Shipping (d) Invoices (e) Inventory
V.
Financing and Budgeting (a) Banking (b) Accounting (c) Investments (d) Taxes (e) Financial Statements
VI.
Management Issues (a) Property and Departments (b) Board Meetings and Committees (c) Quality Control (d) Product Development (e) Renting and Leasing
VII. Restaurants and Events Personnel VIII. Travel (a) Job Advertising and Recruiting IX. Entertainment (b) Applying and Interviewing X. Health (c) Hiring and Training (d) Salaries and Benefits (e) Promotions, Pensions, and Awards Could you also have a look at this list of definitions? Please try to think about those definitions a bit before our next class and to find appropriate words. If you cannot make progress in this little task, it is no problem. I will bring the words with me next Wednesday, and we will briefly try to put them in the right spaces together. Then, one week later, we will listen to an article with those words and try to answer some questions about it. This will help you also to polish your grammar a bit, in addition to the vocabulary. Please print out the exercises under ‘Accounting’ and ‘Board Meetings and Committees’, as well as the above list of definitions for our next meeting from the file at this hyper-link. (The file also contains Craig Duncan’s article Vice, Investment, and the Seven Deadly Sins, with exercises.) I think that it will be easier to print the relevant pages like that, rather than from the online viewer, but perhaps it varies between different workstations and printers . . . . However, the file at the hyper-link is too big to be attached to an email. For our next lesson, I suggest this tentative plan: (1) discussion of the reading comprehension parts of Model Test One which you did at home (2) an exercise with the new vocabulary and discussion (3) a grammar exercise (i. e., adverbs and adjectives, transitive verbs and intransitive verbs (4) discussion of the words for the definitions in the above hyper-link (5) the listening comprehension parts of another model test (6) any queries and loose ends . . . Best regards
Ingo
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INGO PORADA 韻 悟
鳳 雷 多
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The TOEIC Students at Warema
17 February 2011
Dear Students, below is a further expanded list of headings and sub-headings that refers to the ‘six hundred essential words’ for the TOEIC. There are again five hyper-links, and the hyper-linked pages Restaurants and Events / Eating Out and Travel / Airlines each contain an exercise as well (in addition to the vocabulary).
I.
II.
GENERAL BUSINESS
IV.
(a) Contracts
(a) Shopping
(b) Marketing
(b) Ordering Supplies
(c) Warranties
(c) Shipping
(d) Business Planning
(d) Invoices
(e) Conferences
(e) Inventory
OFFICE ISSUES
V.
(a) Computers (b) Office Technology (c) Office Procedures (d) Electronics (e) Correspondence
III.
PURCHASING
PERSONNEL (a) Job Advertising and Recruiting (b) Applying and Interviewing (c) Hiring and Training (d) Salaries and Benefits (e) Promotions, Pensions, and Awards
VI.
FINANCING AND BUDGETING
VII. RESTAURANTS AND EVENTS
(a) Selecting a Restaurant (b) Eating out (c) Ordering Lunch (d) Cooking as a Career (e) Events
VIII. TRAVEL
(a) Banking
(a) General Travel
(b) Accounting
(b) Airlines
(c) Investments
(c) Trains
(d) Taxes
(d) Hotels
(e) Financial Statements
(e) Car Rentals
MANAGEMENT ISSUES
IX.
ENTERTAINMENT
(a) Property and Departments
X.
HEALTH
(b) Board Meetings and Committees (c) Quality Control (d) Product Development (e) Renting and Leasing
You can find all the new material also at this link, which may be more suitable for printing any of it. In any event, please again print out the two vocabulary pages with the exercises, so that we can do them together when we meet again. Also, I want to suggest that we do the reading comprehension parts of one of the Model Tests during our next class. And further, it would be good if we can use a compact disk player for some listening exercises that use the additional new words from the past several weeks. Best regards
Ingo
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The TOEIC Students at Warema
24 February 2011
Dear Students, below is a further expanded list of headings and sub-headings that refers to the ‘six hundred essential words’ for the TOEIC. There are again five hyper-links, and the hyper-linked pages E NTERTAINMENT / Theater and HEALTH / Dentist’s Office each contain an exercise as well (in addition to the vocabulary). I.
G ENERAL B USINESS (a) Contracts (b) Mark eting (c) Warranties (d) Business Planning (e) Conferences
II.
O FFICE I SSUES (a) Computers (b) Office Technology (c) Office Procedures (d) E lectronics (e) Correspondence
III. PERSONNEL (a) Job Advertising and Recruiting (b) Applying and Interviewing (c) Hiring and Training (d) Salaries and Benefits (e) Promotions, Pensions, and Awards IV. PURCHASING (a) Shopping (b) Ordering Supplies (c) Shipping (d) Invoices (e) Inventory
V.
F INANCING AND B UDGETING (a) Bank ing (b) Accounting (c) Investments (d) Taxes (e) Financial Statements
VI. MANAGE MENT I SSUES (a) Property and Departments (b) Board Meetings and Committees (c) Quality Control (d) Product Development (e) Renting and L easing VII. RESTAURANTS AND E VENTS (a) Selecting a Restaurant (b) E ating out (c) Ordering L unch (d) Cook ing as a Career (e) E vents
VIII. T RAVE L (a) General Travel (b) Airlines (c) Trains (d) Hotels (e) Car Rentals IX. E NTERTAINMENT (a) Movies (b) Theater (c) Music (d) Museums (e) Media X.
HEALTH (a) Doctor’s Office (b) Dentist’s Office (c) Health Insurance (d) Hospitals (e) Pharmacy
You can find all the new material also at this link, which may be more suitable for printing any of it. For next week I have some short listening comprehension exercises that focus specifically on the ‘six hundred essential words’. Best regards
Ingo
INGO PORADA 鳳 雷 多
韻 悟
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The TOEIC Students at Warema
3 March 2011
Dear Students, in the list of headings and sub-headings that refers to the ‘six hundred essential words’ for the TOEIC, there are four hyper-links, and the hyper-linked pages GENERAL BUSINESS / Warranties and OFFICE ISSUES / Office Procedures each contain an exercise as well (in addition to the vocabulary).
I.
II.
III.
GENERAL BUSINESS (a) Contracts (b) Marketing (c) Warranties (d) Business Planning (e) Conferences
IV.
OFFICE ISSUES (a) Computers (b) Office Technology (c) Office Procedures (d) Electronics (e) Correspondence
V.
PERSONNEL
(a) Job Advertising and Recruiting (b) (c) (d) (e)
Applying and Interviewing Hiring and Training Salaries and Benefits Promotions, Pensions, and Awards
(a) Shopping
VII. RESTAURANTS AND EVENTS (a) Selecting a Restaurant
FINANCING AND BUDGETING
VIII. TRAVEL (a) General Travel
PURCHASING (b) (c) (d) (e)
Ordering Supplies Shipping Invoices Inventory
(a) Banking (b) (c) (d) (e)
VI.
Accounting Investments Taxes Financial Statements
MANAGEMENT ISSUES
(b) (c) (d) (e)
(b) (c) (d) (e)
(c) (d) (e)
Board Meetings and Committees Quality Control Product Development Renting and Leasing
Airlines Trains Hotels Car Rentals
IX.
ENTERTAINMENT (a) Movies (b) Theater (c) Music (d) Museums (e) Media
X.
HEALTH (a) Doctor’s Office (b) Dentist’s Office (c) Health Insurance (d) Hospitals (e) Pharmacy
(a) Property and Departments (b)
Eating out Ordering Lunch Cooking as a Career Events
Furthermore, I have scanned the listening comprehension exercises for the vocabulary lists under the sub-headings which are bolded in the above classification. You will find those scans, for printing, together with the material that I have also placed in the online viewer, in this document. It is fine if you only print those pages of that document which you really want to have for yourself in paper form. However, please definitely print the pages of the listening comprehension exercises and bring them to our next class. Then we can listen to the audio tracks and try to those exercises together. And meanwhile, you can also listen at home to this audio file; it goes together with the list of definitions that was hyper-linked in my letter of 11 February 2011. Please try to complete that list with appropriate words from the audio file, and then bring the thus completed list with you to our next class. As we have a little more time between our classes now, I will write to you again with more exercise material before we meet again. For now I hope that you will have an enjoyable break next week. Best regards
Ingo
INGO PORADA 韻 悟
鳳 雷 多
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The TOEIC Students at Warema
7 March 2011
Dear Students, here is again the list of headings and sub-headings that refers to the ‘six hundred essential words’ for the TOEIC. I have hyper-linked your vocabulary pages for this week to the categories FINANCING AND BUDGETING / Taxes, MANAGEMENT ISSUES / Product Development, RESTAURANTS AND EVENTS, Cooking as a Career, and TRAVEL, Trains. The hyper-linked pages MANAGEMENT ISSUES / Product Development and RESTAURANTS AND EVENTS, Cooking as a Career each contain an exercise as well (in addition to the vocabulary).
I.
GENERAL BUSINESS (a) Contracts
V.
FINANCING AND BUDGETING (a) Banking (b) Accounting (c) Investments (d) Taxes (e) Financial Statements
VI.
MANAGEMENT ISSUES (a) Property and Departments (b) Board Meetings and Committees (c) Quality Control (d) Product Development X. (e) Renting and Leasing
(b) Marketing
(c) Warranties (d) Business Planning (e) Conferences
II.
OFFICE ISSUES (a) Computers
(b) Office Technology (c) Office Procedures (d) Electronics (e) Correspondence
III.
IV.
PERSONNEL (a) Job Advertising and Recruiting VII. RESTAURANTS AND (b) Applying and Interviewing EVENTS (c) Hiring and Training (a) Selecting a Restaurant (d) Salaries and Benefits (b) Eating out (e) Promotions, Pensions, and (c) Ordering Lunch Awards (d) Cooking as a Career (e) Events PURCHASING (a) Shopping (b) Ordering Supplies
VIII. TRAVEL (a) (b) (c) (d) (e)
IX.
General Travel Airlines Trains Hotels Car Rentals
ENTERTAINMENT
(a) Movies (b) (c) (d) (e)
Theater Music Museums Media
HEALTH
(a) Doctor’s Office (b) (c) (d) (e)
Dentist’s Office Health Insurance Hospitals Pharmacy
(c) Shipping (d) Invoices (e) Inventory
I have also again scanned for you listening comprehension exercises for vocabulary that you have already studied in earlier weeks, i. e., that which corresponds to the bolded sub-headings above. Please print out those scans for our next class from here. The new vocabulary pages, as well as an additional exercise, and my letter of last week, are also included in this file. Please do that additional exercise as well, so that we can later do an audio exercise that is based on it. Lastly, please make a point of studying the ‘targets’ in your textbook. In the next few weeks, it will be especially important that we do some exercises from the targets twenty one to thirty six, which you will find on the pages 204 to 257 of the textbook, together. Best regards
Ingo