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Positive Realist
Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Location: Somewhere Damn Azz Cold
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 3:37 pm Post subject: Suitable Material For Advanced CEO |
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Hi everyone,
I was hoping you could suggest a text or some other material that I could use to structure a lesson plan around.
The student is a mid 40's, advanced English speaking, CEO. He's interested in economics and politics and from my initial assessment, has trouble conveying the real meaning of this thoughts, or as he puts it; it's hard to retrieve the proper words from his 'storage space' and ends up saying the same thing over and over again.
If anyone could suggest a text or something, anything, that would help with 'free speech' within a business context, I'd really appreciate it. |
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crazy_arcade
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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I think "Profiles" advanced would cut the butter. |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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Why don't you ask him to write a text of his ideas on how to run a good business.
Then, you correct his written english, after that you can start a discussion.
This way he has already organized most of it in his head, and the discussion is then used to "imprint" it into his mind. |
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Positive Realist
Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Location: Somewhere Damn Azz Cold
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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Can't seem to find 'profiles' on-line; I'll keep looking though. The business plan idea sounds great as well. He also mentioned something about reading, reviewing and critiquing articles... any idea what kind of magazines there are and where I could pick them up? |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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Positive Realist wrote: |
Can't seem to find 'profiles' on-line; I'll keep looking though. The business plan idea sounds great as well. He also mentioned something about reading, reviewing and critiquing articles... any idea what kind of magazines there are and where I could pick them up? |
Last time i went to Kyobo bookstore i saw that they had a handful of decent business magazines.
Take your pick.
Concerning business English there is so much you can do actually.
I would really first try to probe what are his main interests in business. Management, Finance, accounting, logistics, HR, inter cultural business dealings, etc ..
It would also help if you knew what kind of service/products he was providing. Normally they prefer to keep their focus on current business environments. |
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sojourner1

Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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Ah, that's facinating work, I wish you the best. I graduated from an advanced business school and used these sites in my studies.
www.investopedia.com has a business dictionary, articles, and much more that you can use to generate necessary vocabulary studies.
Here's another website for businss English teaching.
http://www.better-english.com/vocabulary.htm |
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