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John Hall

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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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| In the contract that I presently have with a law firm, there is a clause stating that I have to keep confidential any information I pick up about the firm's business. |
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Guy Courchesne

Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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Anyone manage to learn the secret 11 herbs and spices?
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dmb

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I would be careful about doing that! You certainly can't do that if you are teaching at a law firm. Also, some places where I have worked would think that you were engaging in corporate espionage if they caught you doing that kind of thing.
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John, I would never use it away from the desk I saw it on. I don't go rummaging through drawers or anything. But if I am waiting in his/her office and I see that there is an email or document in English in front of me. I will ask 'was everything clear' and usually I will get an answer along the lines of 'actually, could you clarify ....' How much more could I help students meet their needs? |
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gaijinalways
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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I like teaching business English too. Recently I teach less and less of it, though it does crop up at my Berlitz job as well as in a few general English uni classes that I teach. Any content class, business included, is generally more interesting than just teaching a straight English class.
I will be teaching an intermediate business class this spring and plan to use 'Business Objectives' as I have used this book (fairly familar with it) and find it fairly good for my target level (low intermediate to intermediate). My background is originally in marketing and my undergraduate work was in Business Management, so I usually have plenty to talk with students about. I even brought in my Capitalism game to show a student and talk about financial documents (damn, that is still missing, my game that is ). Capitalism is used in some MBA programs as a simulation program to discuss marketing and sales strategies. |
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John Hall

Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 452 Location: San Jose, Costa Rica
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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| John, I would never use it away from the desk I saw it on. I don't go rummaging through drawers or anything. But if I am waiting in his/her office and I see that there is an email or document in English in front of me. I will ask 'was everything clear' and usually I will get an answer along the lines of 'actually, could you clarify ....' How much more could I help students meet their needs? |
I certainly agree that working with a student's email is a very practical thing to do which really proves your worth to the student. I've actually been drawn in to certain projects of the company, dedicating weeks of classes and even extra classes to dealing with "what went wrong" with a certain English-speaking client. At times like that, the textbooks get put aside for quite a while. |
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tedkarma

Joined: 17 May 2004 Posts: 1598 Location: The World is my Oyster
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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I taught for Roche Pharma and Standard Chartered Bank in Taiwan. Usually what we did there was white out company or client names before photocopying for the class. We usually did the writing as group process.
Teaching for the Korea Foreign Trade Association (about 14 years ago) they didn't care at all about confidentiality. |
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