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I think it depends on how many will be presenting. If you will really have over 100 people participating, you probably want to keep it short--3-5 minutes/person. I did an exercise where students had to prepare a 3-minute response to a common interview question: "So, tell me a bit about yourself." Yo...

I used to work in international lending so maybe can explain. A big bank, like the one your student works for, can syndicate loans, which means it talks to a borrower and arranges the loan, say for $100 million. Not wishing to lend all of this to one company, the bank goes out to other banks and ask...

Just saw this topic--I used "Working Girl" with Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith, and Sigourney Weaver this semester. Made in 1988 I think, lots of good business vocabulary and topics for discussion (business culture, ethics, women in the workplace) plus some brief nudity which you may or may not wan...

Maybe a mixture of chat and more structured speaking work would be good. I have started off a class with "blamestorming", where each person gets 2 minutes to say why their day (or the day before) was the WORST because... and then the class decides who had the worst day. (You can start off if you lik...

I assigned a marketing research project when I was teaching undergrads in Russia about 10 years ago. It was a real eye-opener for the students and for me. One of my student teams researched some bookstores, and one store owner got so interested he wanted them to provide him with the results and not ...

I like the Language to Go series. Two-page units, some supplementary exercises in the back, listening cassette, interesting topics. I've used the intermediate and upper-intermediate books and am actually using some of the listening exercises this year in an EAP course in China.

you might try the International House system schools--I got my certificate at the one in Katowice, Poland, although it might be more difficult to do a course in the summer as there are fewer students around, especially in August.

you can go to www.dartmouth.edu/acskills/success/notes.html
for information on note taking in lecture classes.