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Teababy · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 514 Location: Wuhan

Teaching business english to 8 university students, 4 times a week. Struggling.

What worked for you? I checked the idea cookbook but it's dire.

Any suggestions appreciated.

nolefan · Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 1458 Location: on the run

Get your hands on the Cambridge BEC preparation book. It's pretty well written and most of the stuff can be used in a college classroom environment, especially with a low number of students!

I used it for two years for my business english classes and was quite satisfied

fraup · Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:34 pm Post subject:

What level BEC? My Chinese business students struggled with the upper level book. Maybe the Vantage (intermediate level) would be OK.

Best bet is the Macmillan website--they have lesson plans from the InCompany series (a better book for college students as the BEC is heavily skewed towards working professionals aiming to take the exam).
It's http://www.businessenglishonline.net/e-lessons/index.htm
(sorry I couldn't get it to link)

PM me for additional materials--I just finished teaching BE to college juniors and seniors and have Word documents that might be useful.

7969 · Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 5782 Location: Coastal Guangdong

if your students are any good, the business section of the china daily has some useful articles that you could reprint and use as discussion material. have a look. i know what you mean, the idea cookbook here is pretty thin....

7969

Teababy · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 514 Location: Wuhan

Thank you very much for the suggestions.

As it turns out, my gf has a copy of that BEC book you were telling me about. I'll give it a look.

Truthfully, my students are not very good. They got bumped up, level-to-level, simply by paying their money. They're about two levels above what they should be.

Thanks again!

dajiang · Joined: 13 May 2004 Posts: 663 Location: Guilin!

I second that MacMillan link.

You can get it's newsletter for free, and they got new lessons regularly.

Check out some links I got here:
http://eslmaniac.web-log.nl/

Dajiang

woza17 · Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 602 Location: china

Have a look at bogglesworld business English they have some great lesson plans'
I have often taught BEC and the students English level wasn't really up to it so I switched to some Bogglesworld lesson plans and it went so well.
Seriously give it a go .