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English for Economic Development (EED)

Welcome to The English For Economic Development Information Center

What is English For Economic Development? English For Economic Development is ISAI's proprietary English Learning System for sustainable development. English for Economic Development includes English for sustainable development, halting global warming, agricultural tourism, ecotourism, tropical food production, soccer, Sports Adventure Tourism, Leucaena Effect Agroforestry, Caribbean Basin business, sports diversity, small scale industries, export and international business. It is English reading, communicating in writing, creating English web pages on the Internet, putting together email newsletters, speaking and listening to English in business development in developing countries.

Two Intensive English for Economic Development Workshops Will be Held In Honduras in 2005 and 2006

Intermediate English for Economic Development

Advanced English For Economic Development Presentation Skill Course

In this English For Economic Development program you do not read poetry, discuss the classics of literature or discus ideals. Its about developing and using English for international business. All scenarios and stories used will be about international business. All the lessons, exercises, tape lessons, everything cover the entire field of business development. You learn grammar while learning about letters of credit. You find out how to find international buyers while you learn the speech sounds of English. You discover how to create a unique sustainable business manufacturing fuel briquettes for the growing world market for fuelwood. You learn to understand American businessmen when they speak the clipped, fast, reduced everyday business speech at the same time you learn how to plan and manage an EXPORT business.

ENGLISH FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT is just that - speaking, reading, listening, and living about sustainable business and development.

English For Economic Development has two components

1) Helping you as a world class entrepreneur achieve native speaker fluency in the World Interface Language, American English

2) Helping you develop the international business skills needed to become a world class sustainable entrepreneur

THIS COURSE IS - A Practical, Hands-On Guide For Business Persons, Entrepreneurs and Government Agencies Promoting Sustainable Export and Business Development Who Want To Create, Build And Expand World Polyeconomic Businesses

Dee Brightman (creator of English For Economic Development) says - "I have written the BUSINESS INFORMATION PART OF THESE LESSONS with one objective in mind, to help you make more money, gain wealth, power and influence in your country, and in this polyeconomic world, creating, building and expanding your polyeconomic business. You will be able to expand as large as you desire by:

* planning

* export and business development

* creating long term international interactions

* developing low cost entry projects

* using computer and fax to access world information sources

* establishing joint ventures, licensing and international investment

* creating market oriented projects, products and services

When you do all this, you get rich in the polyeconomic world. It is possible whether you are from the smallest to the largest country in Africa, Asia, Latin America or the Middle East.

There are two major approaches taken by governments, firms and individuals to accomplish development. Many nations have taken the focus of fighting poverty. They treat the poor, have donations, volunteers, loans, etc. A rare few, in these countries, using this focus have become rich, wealthy and powerful. However, they have little world influence; it has eluded these countries and their entrepreneurs.

Many governments, firms and individuals are seeing the key to economic development using a more positive, entrepreneurial approach. Instead of fighting poverty, they have focused on generating and creating wealth through business development focused on world markets and export.

These countries such as India, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong have BECOME RICH. Hundreds, even thousands, and in some cases, hundreds of thousands of their entrepreneurs enjoy tremendous wealth and power within their countries and the world.

You want to create a growing business within your country that can expand into a multinational corporation. You want to have power and

influence in your country, to be respected, to have prestige, and to have power. You want to be able to influence people and politics, to have an impact on the course of development in your country.

The problem is, most aspiring entrepreneurs simply do not manage to create a world class business. Study after study shows just how few new businesses make significant profits or stay in business at all.

Why do so many of these entrepreneurs, their products and services, fails? What prevents the maximization of their business? Several significant reasons include the following.

Not planning the business. Too few entrepreneurs develop even a one page document based on a full plan of production, marketing and quality control plans and projects. If you want to make money and become very wealthy in today's competitive world markets, you must create an updatable business plan and use it as a working tool.
Not developing and applying an international business marketing plan, in addition to the above mentioned business plan, before beginning production of products you want to export.
Most developing countries are promoting export production within their countries. As a result, many entrepreneurs are encouraged to get into export without knowing what products are available, what quality and safety requirements are required in target markets, and indeed what target markets are best for their products.
Not understanding the target market consumers needs, interests and lifestyles. In the USA, Japan and Europe, customers buy things that fit their lifestyle, their color schemes, their preferred size, shape, and quality standards.
Not understanding that different approaches to marketing are required for cultures different than your own. If you want to motivate people who have a different lifestyle, different goals and aspirations than those in your own ethnic group and culture, you've got to create products and services that meet their needs and more importantly you've got to market to them in the way they are used to, so they will buy.
But most developing country entrepreneurs attempt to sell international buyers the same way they sell to buyers in their own culture. As a result, most international buyers are uninterested in their products and turn to local entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs from countries they trust such as Japan, Korea, Taiwan and others who have good quality records. Entrepreneurs in these countries have studied their buyers and know what the customers want and need. And they give them those items.
Not finding out from buyers what they want and need both in products and services. If you want to make money in the international business arena, you need to produce products for which there is already a demand. As an international marketer, follow the Japanese approach. Wait until a product is developed in a target market, then manufacture that product in your country and sell it to them. Don't try to do product development. Your resources are too limited.
Not developing long term relationships with buyers and suppliers. Many business persons in developing countries want to make a killing on one big deal, instead of slowly creating trust and confidence through client bonding and linking on a lifetime basis.
Not understanding the need for outside knowledge and technology. Developing country entrepreneurs who become wealthy and form multinational corporations know that technology transfer, licensing, joint ventures, and international investment are the keys to successful wealth building. They place a great deal of emphasis on obtaining international resources of science, technology and information and use them to create marketable products and services they can sell back into the same marketplace where they obtained the technology from.
Trying to begin with high cost products that require extensive development costs and high tech equipment, elaborate quality control systems, high front end costs and high capital input to begin with. Thus, they are trying to export products they can hardly afford to produce in the first place. Smart developing country entrepreneurs find low cost entry products to begin with and target into selected markets. And they find low cost ways to promote to their chosen markets.
Not developing your business from the very beginning to be an integral part of the developing world polyeconomy. Most developing country entrepreneurs are narrowly focused and do not understand the need to form long term relationships with people who are not of their culture. Frankly international businesspersons offer an entrepreneur the opportunity to develop unlimited, large scale, long term, successful markets for their products and services.
Not researching, finding and selecting an international information, science and technology transfer/conduit organization to be a long term working associate in their business development. In order to develop a successful world class business based on export, internationals in developing countries need information on tastes and trends in the marketplace, sources and possible ways to obtain investments, and technology. You just can't go it alone.

Developing country entrepreneurs who seek wealth, prestige and power as well as influence, look at themselves frankly. They don't pretend they already know everything they need to know about developing a business, buying equipment, training workers, packaging, marketing and negotiation. They pragmatically acknowlege their need to know and to gain technology and information from outside sources. What they want is information they can trust, that will work and guide them to the wealth they want.

Some large Japanese corporations, with sales in the billions, are often caught trying to steal technology from IBM or other corporations. Even as these large multinational Japanese trading companies admit they need outside technology and help, so can you, as a developing country entrepreneur, often with poor support systems in your country, can accept technical assistance that would bolster your successes.

Do you want to create a multimillion dollar sustainable business? Can you face the fact head on that you need help? Do you understand that you need resources from international sources in developed countries, resources that have already succeeded? If you answer yes, you'll establish many relationships, develop a close working relationship with a firm that can source these resources for you, and consider them an integral part of your business development strategies and systems package.

To solve these, and a host of related problems, the International Sports Adventure Institute has created a complete support program which is the LEEAF Academy in Honduras as well as online training for entrepreneurs. I guarantee you that ISAI lead you to the services, programs, products, courses and information/technology that you need. YOU GET resources from ISAI that will help you solve these problems, and so launch you on your way to becoming your country's next wealthy sustainable entrepreneur. And gaining fluency in English for Economic Development is the key component for building your world class business.

THE English For Economic Development ENTREPRENEUR PROGRAM

YOUR SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

A sample training module for the English For Economic Development program.

DIALOG BASED ON THE NOVELLA, "A PASSION FOR SOCCER"

WHAT IS English For Economic Development?

1. Luis is talking with his friend Pedro. They are talking about export and creating an export business. Luis is studying English For Economic Development through Interactive Distance Learning. Interactive means that both Luis and his teacher communicate with each other. Distance means that they are in different places. Learning means Luis is gaining more skills.

2. Luis -- I am happy. I am studying English For Economic Development. I studied forestry in the States. But now I want to learn how to export, to sell products outside our country. I want to be a successful exporter and get rich.

3. Pedro -- What is English For Economic Development?

4. Luis -- English For Economic Development is the world's interface language that enables us to do international business. When people with different languages want to do a business deal, they use English For Economic Development to communicate.

5. Pedro -- What do you mean, interface language? I've never heard of that.

6. Luis -- I'll show you what it means. (Luis draws the following on a piece of paper.)

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Guten Ohayo Good Yes! Good

morgen Gozaiamasu Morning Morning.

(German) (Japanese) (English For Economic Development)

7. Luis -- Remember when your father wanted your sister, Paula, to marry Felipi? Both your families went to the priest. He helped you with the dowry settlement so they could get married. He was the go - between, the interface between your families.

8. Pedro -- Oh, yes. Now I understand. It is something two parties use to bring understanding to both of them.

9. Luis -- Yes, you do. English For Economic Development language is a go - between for people who don't speak the same language, who don't have a language in common.

10. Pedro -- What is so different about English For Economic Development?

11. Luis -- In English For Economic Development all the vocabulary, dialogs and activities focus on business. You learn to speak and understand American English using business terms. Export activities include contact and interviews with exporters, making business plans, negotiating an export contract, and completing an international export deal with guidance and support from the program.

12. Pedro -- I studied English at the university. What is so different about English For Economic Development?

13. Luis -- This course teaches me how to understand normal, conversational talk. When I was first in the States going to school, I thought I could speak English too, but I could not understand my professors. They talked so fast that, frankly, the words were hard to understand. That was not the way the English class was at home in the university.

14. Pedro -- What do you mean?

15. Luis -- You know that American businessperson Roberto works for, right?

16. Pedro -- Yes, I met him at your family's party last week.

17. Luis -- When he talks can you understand what he says?

18. Pedro -- No, and it seems really strange to me. I don't understand most of what he is saying. And I am in my third year of English at the university.

19. Luis -- When I studied in the States, I found out how Americans really talk. I also drove a taxi and listened to lots of people. They didn't sound like my teachers in the classes either.

20. But English For Economic Development is different. In the course we get tapes. We learn rules so we can pronounce English like Americans pronounce it. We learn to understand the fast, clipped speech Americans really use.

The developers of English For Economic Development have developed a very easy, special spelling system to make it easier to predict how to pronounce new words.

21. Pedro -- But why do they call it English For Economic Development?

22. Luis -- That's because English For Economic Development includes all the knowhow you need to develop an export business. When we join the course, we get free associate membership in the Export Entrepreneurs Association. We are called English For Economic Development Entrepreneurs (EED Learners). Why we even learn to make web pages on the internet to market our export products. And they have a web page and mall where we can put up our pages. We can put up one single page for free as an EED Learners. We can link our pages to the pages of all the EED Learners . We learn to create our own email newsletter on the internet. And every lesson integrates business planning, fun stories and activities, export knowhow and real American English like Americans use.

23. Pedro -- It sounds like a really tough course.

24. Luis -- It does require commitment to eventually develop native speaker fluency. But they don't expect you to do it all at once. And there are so many activities to help you learn. There are the English For Economic Development for Profit clubs. That's a place where we go and practice English. Since there is not one in Arboleña, I am going to start one. Arboleña

25. Pedro -- Native speaker fluency? What does that mean?

26. Luis -- Not everyone really wants to go that far. But I do. It means being able to speak, listen, pronounce, read and communicate in American English just like an American native speaker. It means when someone is talking you don't have to figure out what any words mean. It means when you talk you sound like an American native speaker.

27. Luis -- I want to get really rich. And I want to have prestige and power here in Arboleña. So I am going to need to negotiate freely with Americans. That's why I have got to have native speaker fluency.

28. Pedro -- Do you think you can get that from your IDL course alone?

29. Luis - No, I can't because I am only taking the Reading and Communicating course right now. But I want native speaker fluency and as I take more courses, I will have enough information, techniques and practice that I will gain fluency. If all I wanted was to learn enough about export and English speech to export, I would only need to finish the first year as an English For Economic Development Entrepreneur I by IDL.

30. Pedro -- You mean there are courses for more than one year?

31. Luis -- This is not just a course or even a group of courses. This is a program where you can learn practical things and get into business in two ways. If you're like me, you want to be rich. Someday I want to have a large scale rural agroindustrial center (RAIC). That's where there are lots of factories out in rural areas that are part of one complex. With my own RAIC, I will be rich, have power and prestige in Arboleña. But some people, especially women, want to teach. There is the facilitator program where they can eventually have their own school teaching all the English For Economic Development beginning and advanced export courses.

32. Pedro -- And all this is by distance learning?

33. Luis -- You can get most of the courses that way. But if you want native speaker fluency you are going to have to study onsite at the school in Honduras some of the time. And of course once there are more facilitators, they will be offering the course in every country under license.

34. Pedro -- I didn't realize there was so much to it.

35. Luis - This program has as its mission statement to create entrepreneurs that can stand toe to toe with any businessperson in the world. That's why they are having short workshops on site for EED Learners so they can come and get individual attention from the learning facilitator. Also there is going to be an English For Economic Development conference every two years where we'll have intensive courses. We'll also have the web page where new stories about business that students write are posted. They are planning to eventually make the web page with sound so they have all the speech sounds on the world wide web.

36. Pedro -- You are really into this English For Economic Development thing.

37. Luis -- English For Economic Development is my ticket to what I want. I want to marry someone from the upper class. That way my children will have a good life. I need money for that. And the staff at English For Economic Development will even help you develop a joint venture business with them. They have lots of projects they want to do here in Arboleña. And I want to do projects with them. This program is win - win in every way.

38. Luis -- Here's the whole story. You learn English and export together. You learn how to speak English like a native speaker Everything you read and study and listen to and look at is about developing your own export business.

39. Luis -- You learn English for international business. And you learn international business at the same time. All the stories and dialogs are about export and/ or business situations. All the people in the stories are involved in business. You learn English while you learn how to find export buyers. You learn how to make fuel briquettes for export. You learn how to export fuel briquettes. You learn about marketing briquettes. You learn how to understand the fast speech of Americans. You learn how to read the lips of Americans. You learn how Americans blend sounds, drop sounds, push together words. You learn to fill in the missing sounds they drop out. You learn how Americans shorten words. You learn how to make the sounds like an American native speaker. You use Lorrie de Shine's proprietary English spelling system so you easily learn to pronounce words you do not even know.

40. Pedro -- Okay Luis, I'm sold. How do I get into the program?

EXERCISES

WHAT IS English For Economic Development?

E1. Luis is ________with his friend ______.

They are talking about _______

and creating an _______ business.

Luis is studying English For Economic Development

through Interactive _________ Learning.

___________ means that both Luis and

his teacher communicate with each other.

_______ means that they are in different

places.

_______ means Luis is gaining more skills.

E2.

COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS:

Answer either YES or NO

_____a. Is Luis Talking with Manuel?

_____b. Luis is studying forestry by

Interactive Distance Learning

_____c. Luis wants to create an export

business.

_____d. Distance Learning Means the

teacher is in the room with the student.

_____e. Luis is studying English For Economic Development.

E3. Luis -- I am ______.

I am ___________ English For Economic Development.

I studied ________ in the States.

But now I want to learn how to _________,

to sell products __________ our country.

I want to be a _______________ exporter.

E4. Fill in questions.

Use these words: want to am

I ______ happy.

I ______ studying English For Economic Development.

I studied forestry in the States.

But now I _______ to learn how ____ export,

____ sell products outside our country.

I ____ to be a successful exporter.

E5. Pedro -- What is ________ English?

E6. Luis -- Export _______is the _______ language that enables international ________. When people with different ________ want to do a business _____, they use English For Economic Development to ___________.

E7. One sentence is after the number. Read it. Two sentences are after a, two sentences are after b, and two sentences are after c. Read a, b and c. Only two of these sentences have the same meaning. Circle the letter of these two sentences.

7-1. English For Economic Development is the interface language that enables people with different languages to communicate in business.

7-1a. English For Economic Development is an interface language. English For Economic Development enables people with different languages to communicate in business.

7-1b. English For Economic Development is an interface language. English For Economic Development does not enable people with different languages to communicate in business.

7-1c. English For Economic Development is an interface language. English For Economic Development enables people with different languages to communicate about art and music.

E8-1. When people with different languages want to do a business deal, they use English For Economic Development to communicate.

E8-1a. People with different languages use English For Economic Development to complete a business deal. English For Economic Development enables them to communicate.

E8-1b. People with different languages use English For Economic Development to complete a meal. English For Economic Development enables them to communicate.

E8-1c. People with different languages use English For Economic Development to complete a business deal. English For Economic Development doesn't enable them to communicate.

E9. 10. Pedro -- What is so

______________ about English For Economic Development?

E10. 11. Luis -- In English For Economic Development all

the _________, dialogs and activities

focus on business. You learn to ______

and ___________ American English

using business terms. Export activities

include ____________ and interviews

with __________, making business

_________, __________an export

contract, and completing an international

_________ deal with guidance and

support from the program.

E11. JOURNAL Write in English

why you want to learn English For Economic Development.

Write every day how you would like

to live your life as an English For Economic Development

Entrepreneur. Write what you learn

that will help you.

E11a. In your notebook, write two

sentences about English For Economic Development and

the kinds of activities you want to do.

E11b. Example:

I want to learn how to find buyers for

export products. I would like to

make a business plan as well.

I want to complete an export deal

with help from my English For Economic Development

instructor.

E11c. I want to travel to the States

on business. When I go to the

American Embassy, I want them to

give me my visa right away.

I want to have my own chauffeur

driven car. I want to be important

in my country.

E12. 12. Pedro -- I studied English

at the university. What is so

___________ about English For Economic Development?

E13. 13. Luis -- This course _______ me how to understand normal, ______________ talk. When I was first in the ________ going to school, I thought I could speak _______too, but I could not understand my __________. They talked so fast that, ______, the words were hard to understand. That was not the way the _______ class was at home in the ________.

E14. Meanings of phrases. Which phrases are almost the same? Which are different or opposite?

E14-a. S D This course teaches This course doesn't teach

E14-b. S D how to understand how to understand

E14-c. S D When I was first When I wasn't

E14-d. S D in the States in the United States

E14-e. S D going to school have gone to school

E14-f. S D I could speak English I could speak English

E14-g. S D I couldn't understand I could understand

E14-h. S D They talked so fast They talked too fast

E14-i. S D the words were hard the words weren't hard

E14-j. S D That was not the way That wasn't the way

14. Pedro -- What do you mean?

E15. 15. Luis -- You know that American ______________ Roberto works for, right?

E16. 16. Pedro -- Yes, I met him at your _______________ party last week.

E17. 17. Luis -- When he ______ can you understand what he says?

E18. 18. Pedro -- No, and it seems really strange to me. I don't understand most of what he is saying. And I am in my third year of English at the university.

E19. True or false. Circle the correct answer.

T F Pedro understands most of what the American is saying.

T F Pedro is studying English at the university.

T F Pedro is in his second year of English.

T F It seems strange to Pedro that he cannot understand.

19. Luis -- When I _______ in the States, I _______out how Americans really talk. I also _______ a taxi and ________ to lots of people. They ______ sound like my teachers in the classes either.

E Verbs are the words that tell us what is happening - the action.

The following verbs above are listed below:

studied

found out

drove

listened

didn't

E20. The following are pronouns. As you know, a pronoun stands in the place of a noun. Here is an example.

E20Ex. Juan (noun) went to the ferreteria. He (pronoun) went to the ferreteria.

E20-a. When Luis studied in the States, ___ found out how Americans really talk.

E20-b. ___ also drove a taxi and listened to lots of people.

E20-c. _____didn't sound like my teachers in the classes either.

21. Complete the second sentence.

21-a. Juan went to the ferreteria. ___ went to the ferreteria.

21-b. Carlos and Luis are in forestry. _______ are in forestry.

21-c. Raoul is the father of Luis. ___is the father of Luis.

21-d. Pedro is a friend of Luis. ___is a friend of Luis.

21-e. Carla is the sister of Luis. Carla is _____ sister.

20. Luis -- But English For Economic Development is different. In the course we get tapes. We learn rules so we can pronounce English like Americans pronounce it. We learn to understand the fast, clipped speech Americans really use. The designers of English For Economic Development have developed a very easy, special spelling system to make it easier to predict how to pronounce new words.

Lists are often used to show many aspects of the same thing. Complete the following statements about English For Economic Development;

1. English For Economic Development is _________________________________

2. In the course we get ______________________________

3. We learn rules to _________________________________

4. We learn to understand ____________________________

5. We get a new special _____________________________

21. Pedro -- But why do they call it English For Economic Development?

22. Luis -- That's because English For Economic Development includes all the knowhow you need to develop an export business. When we join the course, we get free associate membership in the Export Entrepreneurs Association. We are called English For Economic Development Entrepreneurs (EED Learners). Why we even learn to make web pages on the internet to market our export products. And they have a web page and mall where we can put up our pages. We can put up one single page for free as an EED Learners . We can link our pages to the pages of all the EED Learners . We learn to create our own email newsletter on the internet. And every lesson integrates business planning, fun stories and activities, export knowhow and real American English like Americans use.

EX - Prepositions - fill in the blanks

Prepositions are words that show the relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence. Relationships that can be established include time, place, action, process, condition, distance, area and volume. Results and consequences as well as number can also be established by prepositions. The following words are prepositions:

aboard about beyond above

according to across after against

along along with amid among

apart from around as to at

away from because of before behind

below beneath beside besides

between betwixt but by

despite down ere except

from from among from between from under

from within from without in in back of

in spite of instead of into near

next to of off on

out of outside outside of over

over against past round

round about save saving since

through throughout till to

toward under underneath until

unto up upon up to

with within without

1. That's because English For Economic Development includes all the knowhow you need ____ develop an export business.

2. When we join the course, we get free associate membership ___ the Export Entrepreneurs Association.

3. We are called English For Economic Development Entrepreneurs (EED Learners).

4. Why we even learn ___ make web pages ___ the Internet ___ market our export products.

5. And they have a web page and mall where we can put ___ our pages.

6. We can put ____ one single page for free as an EED Learners .

7. We can link our pages ___ the pages of all the EED Learners .

8. We learn ___ create our own email newsletter ____ the internet.

9. And every lesson integrates business planning, fun stories and activities, export knowhow and real American English like Americans use.

23. Pedro -- It sounds like a really tough course.

24. Luis -- It does require commitment ____ eventually develop native speaker fluency. But they don't expect you ___ do it all at once. And there are so many activities ___ help EED Learners learn. There are the English For Economic Development for Profit clubs. That's a place where we go and practice English. Since there is not one in Arboleña, I am going to start one.

Exercise Error Analysis. Rewrite the following sentences and correct the errors.

1. Id does require commitmed to eventually develop native speaker fluency. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. But them don't expect bou to do it all at once.

____________________________________________________

3. And there are ho many activities po help EED Learners fearn.

____________________________________________________

4. There are the English For Economic Development for Profit clubs.

____________________________________________________

5. That's a place were we go and practice English.

____________________________________________________

6. Since there is non one in Arboleña, I an going to start one.

____________________________________________________

25. Pedro -- Native speaker fluency? What does that mean?

Write sentences uses phrases

Example: Everyone/ really/ wants

Everyone in the English For Economic Development class really wants to have a successful Export business

a. being/ able

____________________________________________________

b. read/communicate

____________________________________________________

c. someone/talking

____________________________________________________

d. what/words

____________________________________________________e. have to/ figure

____________________________________________________

f. means/when

____________________________________________________

g. sound/like

____________________________________________________

Ex. Using And

Example: Luis is a forestry student. Luis is an English For Economic Development student.

a. Luis is a forestry student and he is an English For Economic Development student.

b. Luis is a forestry and English For Economic Development student.

c. He is a forestry and English For Economic Development Student.

1. Luis wants to get really rich. Luis wants to get a lot of prestige.

2. Luis wants to return to Arboleña. Luis wants to have power in Arboleña.

3. Luis wants to negotiate with Americans. Luis wants to do business with Americans.

4. Luis wants to speak English. Luis wants native speaker fluency.

5. Luis is hard working. Luis is loyal to his family.

28. Pedro -- Do you think you can get that from your IDL course alone.

29. Luis - No! I can't because I am only taking the Reading and Communicating course right now. But I want native speaker fluency. As I take more courses, I will have enough information, techniques and practice. Then I will gain fluency. Some people only want to learn enough about export and English speech to export. They only need to finish the first year as an English For Economic Development Entrepreneur I by IDL.

Ex. Comprehension

Write Yes or no in the blanks.

_______a. Luis is only taking the Reading and Communicating course right now.

_______b. Luis does not want native speaker fluency.

_______c. As Luis takes more courses, he will have enough information, techniques and practice.

_______d. Luis wants to gain fluency.

_______e. Some people only want to learn enough about export and English speech to paint.

_______f. They only need to finish the third year as an English For Economic Development Entrepreneur I by IDL.

30. Pedro -- You mean there are courses for more than one year?

31. Luis -- This is not just a ________ or even a group of courses. This is a __________ where you can learn __________ things and get into __________in two ways. If you're like me, you want to be rich. Someday I want ________ a large scale rural agroindustrial center (_____). That's where there are lots of ________out in rural area that are part of one _________. With my own RAIC, I will be rich, have power and prestige in Arboleña. But some _______, especially women, want to _______. There is the ________ program where they can eventually have their own school ______ all the English For Economic Development _________ and advanced export courses.

Exercise. Complete the following. Answer the above questions. Then write a paragraph telling what you want to achieve as an English For Economic Development Entrepreneur.

Comprehension questions - use short answers

1. Is the English For Economic Development program just one course?

_________________________________________________

2. Is it a practical program from business?

___________________________________________________

3. How many ways can you get into business in this program?

___________________________________________________

4. Does Luis want to be rich?

___________________________________________________

5. What is Luis's great ambition?

___________________________________________________

6. What is a rural agroindustrial center?

___________________________________________________

7. Why does Luis want his own RAIC?

___________________________________________________

8. What do many women want to do?

___________________________________________________

9. How can women succeed in the English For Economic Development Facilitator program?

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10. What courses can women facilitators eventually teach in their schools?

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Now write the paragraph using I. Substitute your goals as an English For Economic Development Entrepreneur. Continue to make the story true for you.

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32. Pedro -- And all this is by distance learning?

Exercise: Word Recognition Exercise

Circle S if the phrases are the SAME and circle D if they are different.

S D You can get most you cannot get most

S D of the courses of the courses

S D But if you want But if you don't want

S D native speaker fluency nonnative speaker fluency

S D you are going to you are not going to have

S D have to study onsite have to study onsight

S D at the school in Honduras at the school in Arboleña

S D some of the time most of the time

S D And of course once and of course when

S D there are more facilitators there are no facilitators

34. Pedro -- I didn't realize there was so much to it.

Exercise- Prepositions

Fill in the blanks

This program has as its mission statement ___create entrepreneurs that can stand toe to toe _____any businessperson ___ the world. That's why they are having short workshops ___ site for EED Learners so they can come and get individual attention ____the learning facilitator. Also there is going __ be an English For Economic Development conference every two years where we'll have intensive courses. We'll also have the web page where new stories ______ business that students write are posted. They are planning ___ eventually make the web page ____ sound so they have all the speech sounds ____ the world wide web.

36. Pedro -- You are really into this English For Economic Development thing.

Exercise: Write sentences using the following phrases:

a. is/my

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b. want/to

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c. have/good

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d. help/you/have

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e. develop/joint venture

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f. win/win

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Exercise - COMPLETION. This paragraph summarizes much about the English For Economic Development program. Complete the blanks.

1. You learn English for _________________

2. And you learn ____________________at the same time.

3. All the stories and dialogs are about ___________________ situations.

4. All the people in the stories are involved in ________.

5. You learn English while you learn how to find ________ ______. 6. You learn how to make ________ _________for _______.

7. You learn how to ________ fuel briquettes.

8. You learn about m________ briquettes.

9. You learn how to understand the _____ ______of Americans.

10. You learn how to ____ __ ____of Americans.

11. You learn how Americans ______sounds, _____ sounds, push together words.

12. You learn to ____ ___the missing sounds they drop out.

13. You learn how Americans _________ words.

14. You learn how to ______the sounds like an American native speaker.

15. You use Lorrie de Shine's proprietary _______ ______system so you easily learn to pronounce words you do not even know.

16. You learn English for ____________ _________.

40. Pedro -- Okay Luis, I'm sold. How do I get into the program?

Exercise True and false. Some of the sentences are true. Others are false. Mark T in front of those which are true. Mark F in front of those which are false.

EXPORT INFORMATION ARTICLE

WHY GET INVOLVED IN EXPORT?

Export Development is on the lips of important people in every country. From the USA where the Export Now program exhorts Americans to export to countries like Japan and Holland that depend upon export for survival.

Why is export so important? And why should you begin today in this English For Economic Development program to learn how to export?

Export is defined as shipping goods from one area to another within a country and as shipping goods from one country to another.

Why does export drive economic development. If in your are you have raw materials such as trees, the value to the local people might vary. The lowest value would be for firewood. Just about everyone uses it. Because it is so heavy and must be cheap because the people are poor, it is low in value. If its value were artificially increased by the government, more and more trees would be cut, so more wood would be on the market. With more wood at the higher price, the wood would be a harder sell. So some people would lower the price so they could sell it. That would drive the price down. Within a poor community which is what you have in many countries, a commodity like firewood has a low price.

Let us make lumber from the trees. Each item has higher cost and value. The people are still poor. Very few people can afford to buy the lumber. Becuase there are only a few customers, the sellers need to get more money for each piece of lumber. The price remains high. Few people can buy. The equipment to make lumber is expensive. Very old. And often out of repair. And the small local market will not entive anyone to spend money overseas to buy equipment. Most people build their houses out of mud brick or adobe.

So let us make higher value items out of the lumber. We can make birdhouses, plant containers, wall hangings, plant holders, small pieces of furniture, The products have even higher value. But the people are still poor. When you earn 30 coronels per day, you cannot afford to buy a beautiful decorated handcrafted item that sells for 60 coronels.

Everything is different if we go to export markets.

If the average person in Arboleña make 30 coronels per day, how much could he spend on the above.

But supposed you found a market where people make 3000 coronels per day. ANd there were millions of these buyers. People who don't have the kinds of products you can produce in Arboleña. You could sell your products for 3000 coronels if it were high quality enough. ANd you could sell to millions. You could hire many workers at 30 coronels per day to make these products. And once you see there is market demand, you can purchase the expensive equipment. When you have more workers making money in your community, more products such as food and clothing will be purchased.

New people come to the community to open businesses. New kinds of businesses occur. And soon there is much demand for workers. Wages go up to the workers. Even More money available in the community. But the workers become more skilled and are able to make better products or more per day. You get more money. The community has more money coming in. More taxes are paid into the government so more schools and other services can be provided.

ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF ACTIVITIES

PRODUCT # PEOPLE PRICE/ TOTAL NEW MONEY

WHO UNIT VALUE BROUGHT

COULD BUY INTO Arboleña

TO RAISE

QUALITY OF LIFE

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A. Products Sold Within Arboleña

1. Firewood 1000 1cent/unit US$10 0

2. Lumber 100 10 cent/unit 10 0

3. Wood Prod 10 $1/unit 10 0

B. Products Sold Through Export To Other Countries

1. Firewood 1000000 2 cent/unit $20000 20000

2. Lumber 100000 40 cent/unit 40000 40000

3. Wood Prod 50000 $2/unit 100000 100000

Export is lucrative because of higher standards of living in other countries. People earn more and can pay more for what they want. A key factor is the larger populations of people who earn higher salaries. That enables the marketplace to be very large and thus you can sell millions of unit instead of merely tens or thousands..

That is how export drives development.

In every country in the southern hemisphere, export development is a priority. Export brings in foreign exchange, lowers the balance of payment, increases quality of life and raises the Gross National Product (GNP) of a country.

There are resources in your country which can be more fully utilized for the development of exports from your ocuntry. Large export markets exist in the developed countries for nontradtional exports especially. The premier marketplace in the world is the US market. You can profit from exporting to the lucrative UU marketplace. You will however not maximize your exports, create the wealth you desire and gain the status you deserve in your country without mastering two very important skills. You need to speak, understand, write and use with fluency American English. And you must have the skills of export to fuel your success in world markets.

This program is designed to give you mastery in these two areas.

Take a look at these imports from Central America to the USA from 1983 to 1990. See how the increase in nontraditional products continued. The potential for nontraditional products is highest for ease of market entry in the US marketplace.

In all the lesson for the Entrepreneur I course, we will focus on transferring to you the skills of American English fluency while sharing with you all the knowhow you need in export, project development of nontradtional products such as fuel briquetting, maracuya juice, cut flowers and many many other nontraditional products.

We will be by your side as you gain the skills. WHile in the Entrepreneur I courses, you will be helped to successfully complete three export sales. As part of the coursework, we will source, absolutely free, buyers for three products from your country. And we will help you close the deal and deliver on the contract. It's part of the hands on approach of this very practical course.

And you can only develop these skills by mastering the interface language - English For Economic Development.

EED LANGUAGE

English For Economic Development is a language

EED is the interface language

EED in the interface language of international business

EED is the interface language of international business which enable businesspersons from many countries to understand each other and speak to each other with fluency and comprehension.

EED enable seamless, fluent interchanges and interactions such as importing, exporting, joint ventures, technology transfer, negotiations, and other international business between trading partners so skills are not based on comprehension of English but on their own inherent capabilities and skills.

EE enable entrepreneurs who are not native speakers of English to have a level playing field when they are doing business with Americans. They have equal abilities in comprehension and communication.

Remember in business, everything is based on getting the upper hand. Lack of English fluency is a major barrier to successful export business.

English For Economic Development is the enabler of international business.

It includes these skills:

reading

writing

speaking

making presentations

Making Speech sounds

English For Economic Development Spelling system

Grammar

Internet fluency

Exporting activities

How to Understand conversational English

WHAT IS AN INTERFACE LANGUAGE?

What is an interface. In chemistry is the place where two different chemicals meet. If you have oil and water, there is an interface between the oil and the water. They do not mix.

However, you can put a chemical into the oil and water mix that will lower the surface tension and then the oil and water can mix together.

The chemical is serving as an interface.

In English For Economic Development We can use another analogy. Suppose two young people want to marry. But their families do not agree. Often one of the family members will go to the priest and ask him to serve as a go between. he will talk to the parents on both sides. Perhaps he will arrange several meetings. There will be discussions of prenuptial agreements, settlement of property, disposition of inheritances, and such.

Once the go between have worked with the families, they may come to an agreement and the young people will be allowed to marry.

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Guten Ohayo Good Yes! Good

morgen Gozaiamasu Morning Morning.

(German) (Japanese) (English For Economic Development)

In English For Economic Development lets look at a situation. A German importer is seeking to do business with a Korean exporter. The German Exporter travells to Korea. Neither he nor the Korean speak each others language.

Business is not possible.

Let us take a different situation. You are in the States. You have learned English For Economic Development to native speaker fluency. Your cousin is attempting to negotiate an export contract from your country with an American buyer. You attend all the meetings with him. Not only are you able to serve as an interpreter, you are able to make sure your cousin is not cheated by the American.

Situation Four

You are an English For Economic Development Entrepreneur I graduate. You meet someone from Thailand at the English For Economic Development Conference. Spanish is your native language. Thai is his. You both are fluent in English For Economic Development. You easily arrange a deal to export your products to him at the same time he exports items to you.

That is the power of English For Economic Development.

Welcome to the world of the English For Economic Development Entrepreneur (EED Learners ).

EXERCISES FOR MASTERING English For Economic Development

I. LEARNING THE VOCABULARY

1. Find words in the article that mean

shipping overseas __________________

interface __________________

go-between __________________

skills you need __________________

economic development __________________

2. What is the better meaning for each of these sentences

below?

G= good meaning B= Better meaning

A. English For Economic Development is an interface language.

____a. English For Economic Development enables people to experience hobbies together.

____b. English For Economic Development enables people to do business together.

B. Export drives economic development.

____a. Export drives economic development because it makes people want to be like the United States.

____b. Export drives economic development because it creates jobs, brings in foreign exchange and enables more money to circulate within a country.

3. Write the English For Economic Development word that the pronoun referrs to in this sentence.

__________It is on the lips of important people in every country.

4. Explain in your own words the phrase "

drives economic development

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5. A synonym is a word that means the same thing. An antonym is the oppostite meaning. Write A for antonymn, s for synomnym for the two groups of words

___ export import

___ shipping goods overseas import

___ market demand many buyers

___ community town

___ utilization of resources using resources

___ interface go-between

___ fluency skill in language

___ interchanges interactions

___ trading partners competitors

6. Match each word with its definition

activities high level of skill

import shipping into a country

export higher income per person

foreign exchange balance in export and import

fluency actions to perform work

higher per capita income balance of payment

7. Acronyms are used heavily in English For Economic Development. Americans don't like long words or groups of word and are fond of shortening them. For example, CBI is the acronym for Caribbean basin Intiative.

Write the acronyms from the lessons for these words

English For Economic Development Entrepreneur _________________

English For Economic Development _________________

Gross National Product _________________

8. Showing relationships between words is an easy way to learn how to increase your vocabulary. Once you understand relationships you will be able to use lots of words in the same way

For example exporting is to importing as sleeping is to being awake. In other words the opposite

Give the relationship between these words

S= same D= different

____ interface barrier

____ comprehension understanding

____ raising incomes raising GNP

____ poverty wealth

____ growth development

____ foreign exchange lack of money

____ activities actions

____ skills abilities

II. LEARNING EXPORT KNOWHOW

1. This article is mainly about

___________________________________

2. The reasons given for developing an export based economy are

_________________________ _________________________

3. Check three reasons why export drives development by using the Economic Results of Activites chart. Write them here.

_______________________________

________________________________

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4. This article is primarily

________________________________________________

5. What two examples from the dialogue lets you know what the traits of an Export Entrepreneur are?

6. How many different product types are in the chart. List them here

7. What is one sure way of raising GNP in a country?

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8. The names of the people in this dialogue were

________________________________________

9. Which person in the dialogue needed help?

10. What did Luis say to _________________

16. This article suggest that

______________________________________________

17. Select two of the sentences that are true

T for true, F for false

____1. Export products should sell for less that they do in your country.

____2. An interface language creates a communication barrier

____3. Export is lucrative because of lower standards of living in

other countries where you market your products.

____4. Within a poor country, a product like firewood must sell for low prices.

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