PASSAGE 18 The Education of Benjamin FranklinHistory has given Benjamin Franklin a place of enduring fame. He was a writer, an inventor, a scientist, ...
PASSAGE 15 The Worker's Role in ManagementTraditionally, it has been the worker's role to worker and management's role to mange. Managers ...
PASSAGE 16 Bees and ColourOn our table in the garden we put a blue card, and all around this blue card we put a number of different grey cards. These ...
PASSAGE 14 An Observation and ExplanationIt is worth looking at one or two aspects of the way a mother behaves towards her baby. The usual fondling, c...
PASSAGE 13 The First settlement in North AmericaIt is very difficult to say just when colonization began. The first hundred years after Christopher Co...
PASSAGE 11 Too polite for Words ?A Japanese colleague the other day was talking about a meeting with a man whom she abruptly described using the Engli...
PASSAGE 12 Kitchen DesignOver the years economic, social and technological factors have influenced the design of kitchens. Since it is often used simu...
PASSAGE 10 How Men Face the Fat ProblemIt is a pleasure to see men of a certain age worrying about their weight. Listening to them is not such a pleas...
PASSAGE 9 Why is the Native Language Learnt So WellHow does it happen that children learn their mother tongue so well? When we compare them with adult...
PASSAGE 7 The Cold Places ?The Arctic is a polar region. It surrounds the North Pole.Like Antarctica, the Arctic is a land of ice and snow. Antarctica...