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"The future of Starbucks "
by Pete Sharma
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
