Events for the Public
September 2009
All of the below events are open for the public. We would like you to plan carefully before registering with us so that we have enough seats for participants. If you register for our events but change your plan, kindly notify us by email to irchanoi@gmail.com. Please click here to register for event(s) you want to attend.
Date/Time | Event | Host |
| Sept. 4, 2:00-4:00 | Film Show: Back to School | American Center |
| Sept. 5, 9:30-11:30 | American English Club: Labor Day | American Center |
| Sept. 8, 2:00-5:00 | Speaker Program on Writing Skills
Film Show: October Sky | Mr. Homer Hickam |
| Sept. 11, 2:00-4:00 | Pronunciation Workshop I: The Sounds of American English | Ms. Helen Huntley |
| Sept. 17, 2:00-4:00 | AC Orientation Session for Newcomers | American Center |
| Sept. 17, 2:00-4:00 | Speaker Program: American Music as a Tool to Learn English | Mr. Bill Weissman |
| Sept. 18, 2:00-4:00 | Film Show: The Grapes of Wrath | American Center |
| Sept. 19, 9:30-11:30 | American English Club: Life Goes On (from Connect with English) | American Center |
| Sept. 25, 2:00-4:00 | Film Show: Cinderella Story | American Center |
| Sept. 26, 9:30-11:30 | American English Club: English Study | American Center |
| Sept. 28, 2:00-4:00 | U.S. Higher Education Fair -- Press Release
Venue: 1A Nghi Tam, Tay Ho Disttrict, Hanoi | IIE & American Center |
If you would like to be an American Center member, please register. Our office is located on the 1st Floor of the Rose Garden Tower at 170 Ngoc Khanh Street, Hanoi. You can leave your vehicle at VKO Supermarket's vehicle keeping area. Remember to take your ID with you.
Time: 14:00-16:00, September 4, 2009
Venue: 1st Floor, Rose Garden Tower, 170 Ngoc Khanh Street, Hanoi
This wacky comedy stars Rodney Dangerfield as self-made millionaire Thornton Melon, who decides to get a better education and enrolls at son Jason's college. While Jason (Keith Gordon) struggles just to fit in with his snobbish fellow students, Thornton struggles gain his son's respect -- giving way to hilarious antics. Sally Kellerman co-stars as an English professor who encourages father and son to stick out their first year despite the odds.
Time: 14:00-16:00, September 11, 2009
Venue: 1st Floor, Rose Garden Tower, 170 Ngoc Khanh Street, Hanoi
In this workshop, the consonants and vowels that typically cause difficulties for Vietnamese speakers will be reviewed and communicative activities to address these problem areas will be explored and practiced. Participants will also learn about sounds (Aaah!, Huh? etc.) that have communicative meaning in English and practice using them to respond to common situations. Participants will be encouraged to self-monitor their own speech to perceive patterns of strengths and weaknesses in their own pronunciation of English.
Time: 14:00-16:00, September 17, 2009
Venue: 1st Floor, Rose Garden Tower, 170 Ngoc Khanh Street, Hanoi
Host: Mr. Bill Weissman, Consular Chief, U.S. Embassy Hanoi
Music lyrics are always an interesting way to learn about English, both for vocabulary and listening comprehension. During the session, we will run through several pop music songs from the United States, first trying to following the lyrics, then studying song in depth to understand the writer’s intent. Attendees should have at least intermediate English.
Time: 14:00-16:00, September 18, 2009
Venue: 1st Floor, Rose Garden Tower, 170 Ngoc Khanh Street, Hanoi
In this towering classic of American cinema, common man Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) leads his family on a harrowing journey from the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma to the promise of a better life in California. Based on John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and masterfully directed by John Ford, the stirring drama also stars Oscar winner Jane Darwell as Ma Joad and John Carradine as the fallen preacher Casy.
Time: 14:00-16:00, September 25, 2009
Venue: 1st Floor, Rose Garden Tower, 170 Ngoc Khanh Street, Hanoi
In this modern take on the classic fairy tale, Hilary Duff plays the Cinderella character, a California high school student named Sam who scrubs floors at her stepmother's (Jennifer Coolidge) diner while dreaming of attending Princeton. But when Sam's anonymous email crush (Chad Michael Murray) confesses he's the quarterback of the school's football team, Sam panics, certain she's not cool enough to date him.
US-Vietnam Relations
Events for the Public
