4. One of America's #1 drugstores. Click on either: Healthcare, Personal Care, or Vitamins & Nutritional Care for a list of products to do some price comparison.
http://www.walgreens.com

5. Tips for Reducing Stress
http://www.utexas.edu/student/utlc/handouts/1439.html

2. Safety & Drugs

1. A UK-based safety page
http://www.personalalarms.co.uk/safety.html

2. Canadian-based safety page
http://www.gbrownc.on.ca/orientation/safety.html

3. How to apply for a CA driver's license
http://www.dmv.ca.gov/dl/dl_info.htm#2500

4. Campus safety tips
http://www.securityoncampus.org/students/tips.html

5. Alcohol/Drugs info sheet
http://www.edc.org/hec/pubs/parents.html

3. Money Matters

1. Check writing tutorial
http://www.mazuma.org/family/checks1.htm

2. An article on using credit cards wisely
http://ianrpubs.unl.edu/consumered/nf510.html

3. What is a debit card?
http://www.bcsalliance.com/credit_cards06.html

4. Credit Card Smart Advice for College Students
http://www.collegeboard.com/article/0,3868,2-10-0-9139,00.html

4. Housing

1. An article on dorms vs. apartments
http://www.successincollege.com/dorms.html

2. Locate a U.S. apartment in your city & see lots of pictures & virtual tours (great page!)
http://www.apartmentguide.com

3. UK student accommodations
http://www.accommodation-for-students.com

4. College Roommate Rules
http://www.collegeboard.com/article/0,3868,2-10-0-26657,00.html

5. Things you might need to do/buy for your dorm life
http://www.collegeboard.com/article/0,3868,2-10-0-9761,00.html

5. Social Life

1. British Customs/Culture (great site)
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/

2. Stereotypes (sexism, racism, all the "-isms")
http://remember.org/guide/History.root.stereotypes.html

6. College (registration, success etc)

1. Students can also get a comprehensive list of school web pages at the following address. Just go to the page & then do an "Education Search." When you do that choose "Two & Four Year colleges/universities" When you type in the name of a school, it will give you lots of information on the various subtopics for this topic. Look at more than one school for this topic.
http://www.petersons.com/

NOTE: There is a lot of information on college in the school catalogues located in the library.

2. Various information on college resources
http://www.collegeboard.com/article/0,3868,2-10-0-956,00.html

3. Choosing college Classes
http://www.collegeboard.com/article/0,3868,2-10-0-27746,00.html

4. Getting to Know your College Professors
http://www.collegeboard.com/article/0,3868,2-10-0-957,00.html

5. Taking on College Studying
http://www.collegeboard.com/article/0,3868,2-10-0-961,00.html

6. How to be Successful on Exams
http://www.collegeboard.com/article/0,3868,2-10-0-962,00.html

7. Information on many, many majors! Just click on the major that you are interested to find careers in it.
http://careerservices.rutgers.edu/CareerHandouts.html

7. Enriching your Experience Abroad

1. Click on your city to find an exhaustive list of volunteer organizations in your community (some famous, others not) OR click on a number of volunteer organizations.
http://www.volunteermatch.org/

2. Planning a cheap trip for college students
http://www.geocities.com/xploretravel/

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For typing practice, click on the following links:

For a fun typing game, click on the shark!

Here's another link to some typing games: Free Typing Games

Cut and paste from the article below to practice in the Sense-lang typing tutor!

Life in America

In the past fifty years, American society has changed a lot. Fifty years ago, most Americans lived in small communities. They rarely moved from one area to another and usually knew their neighbors at least by name if not by close, personal interaction. Life was so personal in those days that people often joked about it. They said that a person could not even stay home from church on Sunday without the whole town knowing about it. It was difficult to have privacy in a small community like that, but there was usually a sense of security and of community togetherness. Except for church and the local movie theater, there were not many choices for entertainment. Some people dreamed about moving to the exciting life of the big cities, but most people were happy to live all their lives in the same community.

Today, few people experience this type of lifelong social interaction or sense of community togetherness. In America today, people often move from neighborhood to neighborhood, city to city, and coast to coast. It is rare to find people who have lived all their lives in one community. Because people move so frequently, they do not have a chance to get to know their neighbors. Perhaps this is also why Americans tend to have a more casual attitude about friendships than people from some other cultures; Americans are used to leaving friends and making new friends. In this impersonal society, they have lost the habit of saying "Hello" to people they pass on the streets or in the hallways of their apartment buildings.

The American family has also gone through many changes in the past fifty years. One of the biggest changes is the attitude about divorce, the legal end of a marriage. Until the 1960s, divorce was quite uncommon. However, between 1962 and 1981, the number of divorces each year tripled. This was probably because traditions and religion became less important, and more women began to have jobs. Partly as a reaction to the high divorce rate, many Americans live together without being married. They feel that it is a good idea to know each other well before they become legally tied. This is particularly common in the more liberal areas of the country--the East and West Coasts and the large cities of the North.

Since the 1960s, both the number of single-parent families and the number of mothers who work outside the home have doubled. Obviously, children have greater responsibilities in these nontraditional families. However, bringing up children to be independent has always been a part of the American culture. At an early age, American children learn to do things on their own. They learn to take care of themselves by cleaning their rooms, helping with the dishes and the laundry, and spending time away from their parents, either in daycare, with a babysitter, or alone. Older children often do work for other people such as babysitting or cutting the grass. Most teenagers try to find summer or after-school jobs so they can have their own spending money. While in college, young people usually work part time and during summer vacations in a variety of jobs ranging from construction work to waiting on tables in restaurants.

In the past, most young people moved away from home when they finished high school, either to go to college or to get a job and live with friends. Now, however, the cost of living is so high that many people under 25 are moving back in with their parents. Young people are getting married later now than they used to: the average age for a woman to get married is now about 24 and, for a man, 26. Nowadays, newly married couples often wait to have children until after they have started their careers. Once they have children, they face difficult decisions about whether the mother should continue working and, if so, who should care for the children.

Where Do You Want To Go?

On-line News Sources

Semester 3 Presentation Links

Encyclopedia Britannica
(available through Lakeland College, Japan)

(available through Lakeland College, Japan)

Typing Practice & "Life in America" (Reading)

The History of the English Language

NIC Homepage

On-line News Sources

Japanese News Sources

Foreign News Sources

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Presentations 3rd semester

1. Health

2. Safety & Drugs

3. Money Matters

4. Housing

5. Social Life

6. College (registration, success etc)

7. Enriching your Experience Abroad

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Life in America

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