PAS Program Calendar
Events in August 2008
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You can register to these events online, by email (irchanoi@gmail.com), by phone (844-850 5000, ext. 6207, 6149) or by fax (844-850 5120).
Our office is located at the Rose Garden Tower (RG), 170 Ngoc Khanh Street. You can leave your vehicle at VKO Supermarket's vehicle keeping area. Remember to take your ID with you.
Dear English Teachers,
I hope your summer is going well and this email will find you in good
health and happiness.
It is our great pleasure again to invite you to English Language
Teaching Workshops to be jointly organized by the U.S. Embassy's Public
Affairs Section and Hanoi University's Department of International
Studies as follows:
1/ English Writing Skills Across the Curriculum (e.g., Field Study
Reports, Business and Funding Proposals, Academic Papers, Marketing
Surveys, Publicity Materials)
Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2:00-4:00 PM
Venue: Meeting Room, 1st Floor, Rose Garden Tower, 170 Ngoc
Khanh Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi
Lecturer: Lucy Haagen, Duke University, USA
2/ Project-Based Learning, Technology-Assisted Language Methods and
Resources, Workshop Recap and Evaluation
Date: Thursday, August 7, 2:00-4:00 PM
Venue: Meeting Room, 1st Floor, Rose Garden Tower, 170 Ngoc
Khanh Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi
Lecturer: Lucy Haagen, Duke University, USA
3/ Doing ESL? Let's Do U.S. History. How to formulate content-based ESL
sessions to enhance an advanced student's understanding of U.S. History
and English language competency in general
Date: Friday, August 8, 9:00-11 AM
Venue: Meeting Room, 1st Floor, Rose Garden Tower, 170 Ngoc
Khanh Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi
Lecturer: Dr. Bui Phuong Lan, Department of International
Studies, Hanoi University
As always, the number of seats is limited for the workshop. We therefore
appreciate your registration by Friday, August 31, 2007. Please click
here to register online for the workshops. Alternatively, please send me an
email indicating your name, position, institution and workshop(s) you
would like to attend.
We look forward to hearing from you soon.
U.S. Election 2008
Time: 14:00 - 15:30, August 11, 2008
Venue: 1st Floor, Rose Garden Tower, 170 Ngoc Khanh Street, Hanoi
This year's U.S. Presidential Election is drawing worldwide attention and raising questions about this complex process. Find out how Americans pick their candidates and then their Presidents. Join Political Counselor Brian Aggeler as he explains the whole process - from the very first primary to the last ballot!
City Slickers
Time: 14:00 - 16:00, August 15, 2008
Venue: 1st Floor, Rose Garden Tower, 170 Ngoc Khanh Street, Hanoi
This feel-good comedy, directed by Ron Underwood from a script by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, is a depressingly efficient piece of Hollywood product. The hero, Mitch Robbins (Billy Crystal), is a thirty-nine-year-old New York family man who's going through a killer midlife crisis. His wife (Patricia Wettig) gets so fed up with his moping that she virtually orders him to take a vacation with his buddies Ed (Bruno Kirby) and Phil (Daniel Stern); Ed, a daredevil, macho type, has arranged for them to spend two weeks on a real cattle drive out West. Mitch's wife looks him in the eye, and says earnestly, "Go and find your smile"-and, ninety minutes later, there it is, a grin as big as all outdoors. His pals pick up the odd nugget of wisdom along the trail, too. The movie alternates predictable tenderfoot gags (sore behinds, stampedes, and the like) with long, ludicrous passages of group-therapy-on-the-range. Jack Palance, as Curly, the trail boss, manages some dry, macabre comic effects, and the animals are good-they're interesting to look at, and they don't make bad jokes. You can't help sympathizing with the cattle; by the time the movie is over, you know what it feels like to be part of the herd. Also with Helen Slater. -Terrence Rafferty. Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker
Five student leaders talked about their experience in the United States
Time: 15:00 - 17:00, August 21, 2008
Venue: American Center, 1st Floor, Rose Garden Tower, 170 Ngoc Khanh Street, Hanoi
Five outstanding Vietnamese students who just spent five weeks in America will recount their first hand observations of life in the United States; from university life to everyday life, from how Americans live, study and work, and attitudes on everything from relaxation to queuing in lines. Nguyễn Vân Anh of Hanoi University, Lưu Tú Anh of the Institute of Journalism and Communications, Nguyễn Linh Đan of the Hanoi National Economics University, Nguyễn Văn Dũng of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, and Nguyễn Thị Lan Hương of the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam were selected by the U.S. Embassy to participate in the U.S. State Department-sponsored program called United States Studies Institutes for Student Leaders that took place at Illinois University from June 29 to August 4, 2008. They were among 140 student leaders from around the world to have participated in this summer's program. Through oral and PowerPoint presentations, photo shows and questions and answers, each student will talk about their time in the United States and share different perspectives of the U.S., possibly including how they got selected to this wonderful program! Come and join us for this interesting and informative exchange.
Film Showing: Breaking Away
Time: 14:00 - 16:00, August 22, 2008
Venue: 1st Floor, Rose Garden Tower, 170 Ngoc Khanh Street, Hanoi
This charming, Academy Award winner (1979, Best Screenplay) cycles high on comedy as four friends come to terms with life after school. When top-notch cyclist Dave (Dennis Christopher) learns that the world's bicycling champions are always Italian, he attempts to turn himself into an Italian, driving his parents (Barbara Barrie, Paul Dooley) crazy. But everithing changes after he meets the Italian racing team-an encounter that ultimately leads him and his friends (Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley) to challenge the local college boys in tthe toen's annual bike race.
Time: 14:00 - 16:00, August 29, 2008
Venue: 1st Floor, Rose Garden Tower, 170 Ngoc Khanh Street, Hanoi
Decades before the Hollywood film industry became famous for megabudget disaster and science fiction spectaculars, the studios of Southern California (and particularly Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) were renowned for a uniquely American (and nearly extinct) kind of picture known as The Musical. Indeed, when the prestigious British film magazine Sight & Sound conducts its international critics poll in the second year of every decade, this 1952 MGM picture is the American musical that consistently ranks among the 10 best movies ever made. It's not only a great song-and-dance piece starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and a sprightly Debbie Reynolds; it's also an affectionately funny insider spoof about the film industry's uneasy transition from silent pictures to "talkies." Kelly plays debonair star Don Lockwood, whose leading lady Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) has a screechy voice hilariously ill-suited to the new technology (and her glamorous screen image). Among the musical highlights: O'Connor's knockout "Make 'Em Laugh"; the big "Broadway Melody" production number; and, best of all, that charming little title ditty in which Kelly makes movie magic on a drenched set with nothing but a few puddles, a lamppost, and an umbrella. --Jim Emerson.
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