Lesson 1 Business

Getting to know each other.

Who are you?
Where do you come from?
What do you study?
Tell something about your family, your hobbies, your plans for the future.

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Project – Discussion

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General Information and Mark allocation for the course:
Homework: 20% ………………… (Selected Tasks)*
Project: 20 % …………………………Presentation**
Oral Evaluation 20%……….. ….(during the course in class)***
Final Written Evaluation 40%

*Written Homework must be submitted via email by 12h00 on the Monday before the next period / lesson.
**Your Project with the names of the team members must be submitted after your final presentation
***Oral evaluation will take place during the lessons.

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RECOMMENDED SELF STUDY
Lesson 1 Grammar : When to use capital letters?
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H O M E W O R K:
1. Write a short outline for your Power Point / Website Project and present the outline during the next period.
Include the names of your Team for the project.

TO DO ——-
2. Learn the vocabulary acquired during the lesson.

RECOMMENDED
Lesson 1
Do the Multiple Choice exercises in the Grammar and Idiomatic Sections.

What is it all about……

The difference between this course and other academic courses is the following:

1. The content of what you say is not really that important, important is how you say it.

Can you express what you want to say in proper English?
Can the other person understand what you want to say?

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2. Oral and written communication:

In oral communication the focus is on conveying a message or a question – forget the grammar
or using the correct words: Important is, can the other person understand what you want to say!!!
The focus is on fluent communication.

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In written communication everything is important: convey a message or ask a question AND
ensure that you use the correct words and grammar!!!

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3. What will you learn in this course?
a) Analyse the question : what is required / wanted?
b) Look at the instructions as to how you should answer it.
c) Supply the correct answer in proper English.

d) Ensure that the other person knows what you want or want to say.

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4. The main difference between an academic course and this course:
a) In a regular academic course the focus is on subject matter, content.

b) In this course the focus is on language usage, not so much on content.

Example:
If questions are asked about your family, your field of study etc.,

your answers might be interesting, BUT are not really important!

Important is, can you answer those questions in proper English in a required format!

In a regular academic course the correctness of the content is important,
in this course that is irrelevant, important is:
a) did you understand the question?
b) did you answer the question in proper English in such a way that the other person
understood what you wanted to say (relevant to the question)?

Your response to a question must of course be correct when it comes to question and answer!!!

If the correct answer to: how many brothers do you have, is three, it’s irrelevant if you say :
“I have six brothers!”
BUT if you respond with: “I have two dogs!” – you clearly did not understand the question.

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Please answer ALL the questions in FULL sentences:
1	How many languages can you speak? Please name them.
2	What is your current field of study?
3	What made you decide to study what you study?
4	What is your favourite subject?
5	Why do you want to do the Business English course?
6	Have you been to an English speaking country before? If so, please name the country / countries.
7	What type of job would you like to do when you have completed your studies?
8	How would you rate your current English language skills?

NOW TO YOUR ANSWERS:

LET´S HAVE A LOOK AT THE QUESTIONNAIRE:
The focus is not on your answers!
The reason you had to complete this questionnaire was to determine:
1. Can you read and follow instructions?
2. Can you express yourselves in proper English?
The content is irrelevant!!!!!!
Conclusion: about 80% failed!

Project:

1. What is your project about?
   a) State what the aims and objectives of the presentation is and give a preliminary outline of the project.
   b) The project must focus on your field of study or on a hobby / business idea that you pursue.
2. Who are your team members?
   Name your team members and state who is going to do what in your project.
3. Format of the project
   The project can be in PowerPoint OR as a Website.
   (I can give you access to a sub-site – using WordPress).
4. Guidelines
   The presentation must take no longer than 15 minutes.
   Every member of your team must have contributed something towards your project.
   Everything must be in English.
5. Evaluation
   The class will give a mark : 50% (vote per email).
   The lecturers mark will count 50%
   Marks will be allocated for: ( 1 to 5 each section)
   a) the presentation as such
   b) the content of the project (interesting / boring etc.)
   c) correct spelling and English usage
   d) layout
   e) graphics
   

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