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NoBillyNO
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| There was a guy at Gilly University (car company) who took the second floor of the cafeteria building and built several sets incl. stores, cafe coffee shops, company offices and had a pretty good outcome ..... he did use a simple business communications book.. I will see if I can find the tittle...honestly, put a lot o time in it.... I wouldn't have done it but then again I just write numbers on the board,explain it and watch them regurgitate |
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Non Sequitur
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I doubt that OP's school will see his/her classes as being sufficiently important to either invest in class sets OR getting students to pay for their own copies.
My suggestion is ascertain what career path is most likely for the students and invest in one copy of the relevant Oxford English for ?? Teacher's* Book and use it to get material.
* I only have the Student's Book so content of Teacher's Book unknown.
I know a lot of you will say: 'Why should the FT pay to make up for the inadequacies of the school?'
Unfortunately it happens a lot and I take the view that I can amortise the cost over several semesters and multiple classes. |
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Babala
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I would focus on basic skills such as telephone skills and meeting language. You can go over things such as giving and asking for opinions, agreeing and disagreeing and developing an argument. These are skills that will be useful in whatever field they are going into.
The Business Builder series is all handouts that can be copied so there is no need for everyone to have a textbook. |
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Non Sequitur
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| Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2014 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Babala wrote: |
I would focus on basic skills such as telephone skills and meeting language. You can go over things such as giving and asking for opinions, agreeing and disagreeing and developing an argument. These are skills that will be useful in whatever field they are going into.
The Business Builder series is all handouts that can be copied so there is no need for everyone to have a textbook. |
This raises a point about photocopying costs.
At one school I had a copy budget per semester and at my last place copying was pretty well unlimited. |
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Lancy Bloom
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| Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 12:39 am Post subject: |
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| Anyone teaching buxiness English in China wouldn't know anything about buxiness. Business in China is a win win situation. They win twice and you lose twice. |
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Bud Powell
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| Lancy Bloom wrote: |
| Anyone teaching buxiness English in China wouldn't know anything about buxiness. |
Do you mean "business"? What makes you think that someone who teaches English in China would not know anything about business? Most people I know who teach English in China have lived in the west and have actually held non-academic jobs before arriving in China.
I agree with Babala. In an academic setting, just making the student accustomed to speaking on the phone and making quick decisions such as to whom a call should be referred without a script is a first step in the business world. When I teach BE, one way in which I review terms and practices is to conduct an impromptu telephone conversation using the terms and vocabulary from the textbook.
One of the books I used had short situational dialogs which I expanded. Students were given situations such as meeting a client at the airport or train station and making small talk. They could discuss anything they wanted with the client as long as it was business-like and was intended to either inform the client about the company or discuss the city as they rode a taxi to either his hotel or to the company.
Just teaching them to book a room for a client or for an employer is a skill they may need to do at some point. Just getting them to talk to fill the silence of a taxi ride is important. |
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