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I got a bit of free time today so I added a resource to my site to help you understand business departments in English. Hope it helps.

Its a PDF and can be found on the page:
http://www.jamesabela.co.uk/bus/
(Under Other Business Skills)

James

Infra-estrutura - Infrastructure Direcção Corporativa e Financeira - Corporate Finance Recursos Humanos e Comunicação - Human Resources & Communication Sistemas de Informação - IT / Information Systems Compras, Instalação e Manutenção - Purchases, Installation and Maintenance Department Controlo de ...

There are certainly a lot of language learners in the US and a TEFL certificate from a reputable school would help you in teaching them, but I would check carefully because not all certificates are recognized in the US and I am told by friends that a Masters is a requirement for teaching in College ...

This is a perennial problem... Try the following thread which helped some other teachers with the same problem a lot.
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewt ... se+classes

I think it offers most of the answers that you are going to find to help.

James

Just thought I would mention that the file is NOT free, it costs $6USD. Its not a lot of money, but for a cash strapped teacher working in Malaysia its a bit too much for something I do not know is of good quality. James P.S. If you haven't got any money to spend, you're welcome to my 131 resources ...

In this case drink is countable...
So I can have 1 drink or 3 drinks.

You can buy a round of drinks
You buy a drink for yourself.

Buy a round - Is buying drinks for everybody in your group and it is a very common colocation.

James

Itasan, That is the word... Resignation is the noun and to resign is the verb. Other words that might be helpful... Fired / sacked - Employer forced you to leave redundancy / made redundant - Employer is doing poorly and had to ask you to leave. Retired - Left, because of old age and will now collec...

Yes you're right... I found this explanation useful: Alcoholometer is a special type of hydrometer which is used for determining the alcoholic strength of liquids. Such type of hydrometers have special scale marked by volume percents of an alcohol in water. It is used by brewers of alcoholic beverag...

The British use breathalyser. I think some of those other answers are for brands of breathalyser. (Check the z, my US Spell check said that it should be an s)

James
http://www.jamesabela.co.uk/

Seriously, this is the linguistics part of the Website and most of the TEFL teachers I know wouldn't have a clue about half of the things being discussed in here. In fact I'll readily admit sometimes I don't have a clue what's going on here, because sometimes things being discussed are for academic ...

As she's a beginner I'd suggest short poems or perhaps you could record roleplays for her. A good source of spoken material is: http://librivox.org/ Another good place for spoken English material is the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml And VOA has a good selection of...

I can't say that the entire course is on my Website, but I did put up a couple of CELTA style complete plans: http://www.jamesabela.co.uk/intermediate/ Of course there's plenty of other handouts to help and I try to include basic teacher's notes with most of them and the Teacher's Books are normally...

Most of the EFL books put the emphasis on speaking in the beginning such as Headway, Cutting Edge and Interchange. Any of these books would be appropriate for your beginner. I've also put some basic pronunciation material on my site, which you are very welcome to use: http://www.jamesabela.co.uk/beg...

It's likely to mean facing each other....The context is trying to say that instead of getting out of his seat and talking to him, he sent an email instead. James http://www.jamesabela.co.uk/ P.S. If they were not facing each other, it would have said back to back. e.g. They were sitting back to back.

There's a couple of books from Cambridge Uni. press, which might suit you: Interchange http://www.cambridge.org/us/esl/ic3/Index.htm Let's Talk http://www.cambridge.org/us/esl/letstalk2/ Both are light on the reading, in fact they're too light on the reading for my purposes... James http://www.james...