... that listeningandspeakingskills were greatly important in tourism business
careers more than reading and writing skills. Speaking was needed the most, followed by
listening, reading and writing. ... Analysis
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English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
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Syllabus and Course Design for ESP
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English Problems in ListeningandSpeakingSkills
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English Language for the Metropolitan ... pursers and flight managers in Thai Airways International. Listening
and speakingskills were the most needed. Problems of using the four skills were moderate
for all of them. Air stewards and...
... focused listening to a short passage for detailed
information or for full comprehension. For example, listening to the announcement ,
listening to the instructions or listening to the weather forecast. ... select or combine different
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Apart from the techniquesfor pre and while listening stages, techniquesfor post –
listening is very necessary and important. The purpose is to see whether the ... (1986) and Hubbard, R and others (1984), there are three kinds
of listening in classroom, they are: intensive listeningand extensive listening.
1.4.2.1.Intensive listening
Intensive listening...
... their listening skills. In fact, listening strategies are
vital for students’ success in listening, the more the students exploit listening strategies,
and the more successful they get in a listening ...
Giving background information like this before listening is really helpful to students for
completing the listening task.
3.1.2. Encouraging prediction and selection
Prediction and selection can ... practice for improving listening
comprehension.
It can be said that both the teachers and students expect the success after each
listening task. Therefore, it can be helpful and necessary for them...
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Listening andSpeaking Activities
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CASAS Listening Basic Skills Content Standards
... members, and classroom learners. Some listening is non-face-
to-face, such as listening to movies and broadcast media, listening on the phone, andlistening to
loudspeaker announcements. Most listening, ... question types
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CASAS Listening Basic Skills Content Standards
L1 Recognizing vocabulary
L2 Understanding imperatives,...
... drawbacks. As a result, the model is no longer the standard
for options on bonds, foreign exchange, and futures, though the standard
models for these three items are modifications of the original.
Assumptions ... the greeks and how they affect the price of an option; probability dis-
tributions and how they affect options; option pricing models and their ad-
vantages, disadvantages, and foibles and using ... option’s
delta, gamma, vega, theta, and perhaps rho and phi. Calculate the greeks
for each option or UI in the strategy, and then place them in a spreadsheet
format with a net total at the bottom.
First,...
... divided by the initial
investment. The formula is:
Return = (Prot or loss) ữ initial investment
For example, if you buy an IBM option for 5 and sell it for 7
1
/
2
,fora
profit of 2
1
/
2
, your return ... pre-
mium. The formula for the simple break-even point for calls is:
Simple break-even point = Strike price + call premium
The price of the UI must climb by some amount before expiration for
you to ... want to pay a higher price for a farther
month just to have more time for the trade to work. The extra time pre-
mium might be a cheap price to pay for several more months for the
trade to work....
... text, and sticks them on
the board randomly.
Students work in groups to rearrange the
pictures and think of a story based on their
picture order. This activity is also used for while
techniques ... 9- page
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, then write the questions for the answers.
a type of urban music with heavy beat
African American kids in Detroit and Chicago
blouses and skirts with cartoon characters on ... about the
main points of a reading or listening text. Half
of the statements are true and the other half
are false.
The students are asked to work in pairs and
decide if the statements are true...
... of production, and a cost for transporting
widgets to customers. How many widgets should each factory
produce to satisfy customer demand at minimal cost?
The standard method for solving such ... used for forecasting customer stops.
The second component of a customer-level forecast is a bit more difficult to
calculate. This component is the effect of new customers on the forecast, and ... levels against budgeted levels.
The combination of these components—stop forecasts for existing cus-
tomers and stop forecasts for new customers—makes it possible to develop
estimates of customer...
... different formats, working with dates and time
stamps can be difficult. Excel has fifteen different date formats prebuilt for
cells, and the ability to customize many more. One typical internal format ... module and the cus-
tomer interaction module.
Merchandising information such as product hierarchies, assortments (fami-
lies of products that are grouped together for merchandising purposes), and ... teach and
impossible to automate: good intuition, a feel for how to coax information out
of data, and a natural curiosity.
No one indivdiual is likely to have all the skills required for completing...