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"The future of Starbucks "

by Pete Sharma
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Starbucks

Level: Intermediate and above

This week's activities:

  • Ranking factors when deciding which coffee house to go to
  • Completing the missing dates and figures in a time line
  • Reading an article about Starbucks
  • Deciding if words from the article are nouns, verbs or both
  • Discussing questions arising from teh article

Related Websites

Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself. Please be patient while these pages load - they are worth the wait!

http://www.starbucks.com/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7219458.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starbucks
http://www.reviewcentre.com/fi4424-brand-Coffee+Shop.html


"You're Fired!"

by Pete Sharma
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The Apprentice

Level: Upper Intermediate and above

This week's activities:

  • Creating sentences using some key personnel terms
  • Matching headings to the correct paragraphn
  • Reading an article about the TV show 'The Apprentice'
  • Identifying words in the article from their definitions
  • Discussing questions arising from the article

Related Websites

Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself. Please be patient while these pages load - they are worth the wait!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/apprentice/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7456000/7456439.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4167204.stm
http://www.thecvstore.net/blog/should-i-lie-on-a-cv/
http://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/pm/blog-posts/2008/06/was-sir-alan-right-to-overlook-lees-cv-lie.htm


The football prima donnas

by Pete Sharma
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The football prima donnas

Level: Pre-intermediate and above

This week's activities:

  • Deciding how interested students are in watching Euro 2008
  • Practising saying numbers and scanning blog entries for what these numbers mean
  • Reading six blog entries about the size of salaries for footballers
  • Identifying the odd-word out in a list of words which form collocations with '(a) salary'
  • Discussing the answers to questions arising from blog entries

Related Websites

Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself. Please be patient while these pages load - they are worth the wait!

http://en.euro2008uefa.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_2008
http://money.uk.msn.com/consumer/football-finance
/article.aspx?cp-documentid=8406837

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?
xml=/sport/2007/11/01/ufnprices101.xml


9th June - The one minute entrepreneur

by Pete Sharma
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The one minute entrepreneur

Level: Intermediate and above

This week's activities:

  • Filling in the missing words from a set of book titles
  • Choosing the most likely way to complete two extracts from a review
  • Reading a review about a new management book
  • Deciding if words from the review are nouns, verbs or both
  • Discussing the answers to questions arising from the review

Related Websites

Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself. Please be patient while these pages load - they are worth the wait!

http://www.1minuteentrepreneur.com/
http://stanleybronstein.com/book-review-one-minute-entrepreneur-ken-blanchard/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneur
http://www.open2.net/moneyandmanagement/
management_organisation/entrepreneur.html


12th May Facebook

by Pete Sharma
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Facebook

Level: Intermediate and above

This week's activities:

  • Discussing whether or not students are on Facebook
  • Putting paragraph headings in the correct order
  • Reading a text about technology and office etiquette
  • Guessing the frequency of some key words from the article
  • Discussing the answers to questions posed on a blog

Related Websites

Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself. Please be patient while these pages load - they are worth the wait!

http://www.facebook.com/
http://www.macmillandictionaries.com/wordoftheweek/archive/080423-Facebook-fatigue.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
http://mashable.com/2006/08/25/facebook-profile/
http://www.emailreplies.com/


28th April - A Pecha Kucha night

by Pete Sharma
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A Pecha Kucha night

Level: Intermediate and above

This week's activities:

  • Discussing good and bad presentations
  • Sequencing five Powerpoint slides from a presentation
  • Reading extracts from a Pecha Kucha-style presentation
  • Identifying words in the extracts from their definitions
  • Preparing, practising and giving an individual or group presentation

Related Websites

Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself. Please be patient while these pages load - they are worth the wait!

http://www.pecha-kucha.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha_Kucha
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-09/st_pechakucha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGaCLWaZLI4

21st April - Takeover

by Pete Sharma
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Takeover

Level: Intermediate and above

This week's activities:

  • Discussing which types of cars students like
  • Completing the missing information in a time-line
  • Reading an article about a takeover in the automobile industry
  • Identify whether some key words are nouns, verbs or both
  • Discussing questions arising from the article

Related Websites

Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself. Please be patient while these pages load - they are worth the wait!

www.jaguar.co.uk
www.landrover.co.uk
www.tatamotors.com
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeover

7th April - The Kindle

by Pete Sharma
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The Kindle

Level: Intermediate and above

This week's activities:

  • Creating sentences about students' reading habits
  • Scanning a product information box and completing the missing information
  • Reading an article about a new e-book reader
  • Identify words in the article from their definitions
  • Discussing questions arising from the article

Related Websites

Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself. Please be patient while these pages load - they are worth the wait!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindle
http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Device/dp/B000FI73MA
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue26/e-book/
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment
/books/article2904004.ece

17th March - Money, money, money

by Pete Sharma
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Money, money, money

Level: Upper-intermediate

This week's activities:

  • Matching words and phrases with their definitions
  • Scanning a television programme transcript to look for some figures
  • Reading a programme transcript about the lives of the wealthy
  • Identifying the 'odd-word-out' which does not collocate with the word 'tax'
  • Discussing questions arising from the transcript

Related Websites

Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself. http://www.forbes.com/lists/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_evasion
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2006/aug/17/
executivesalaries.executivepay1

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/04/business/tax.4-233690.php

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