In Company – eLessons

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• April, 2009
• A better workplace Worksheet Teacher's Notes

  Level - Intermediate and above

  This week's activities:

  • Discussing which companies students think are the best ones to work for
  • Matching headings to the correct paragraphs
  • Reading an article about a competition in the UK to find the best companies to work for
  • Completing a word formation grid
  • 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.bestcompanies.co.uk/
  http://www.bestcompaniesguide.co.uk/
  http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/career_and_jobs/
  best_100_companies/best_100_tables/

• Electric Cars Worksheet Teacher's Notes

  Level - Intermediate

• March, 2009
• Cost Cutting Worksheet Teacher's Notes

  Level - Intermediate

• Twitter Worksheet Teacher's Notes

  Level - Upper  Intermediate

  This week's activities:

  • Discussing whether students have experience of Twitter or not
  • Guessing the correct option to complete some statistics about social networking
  • Reading an article about Twitter and Facebook
  • Deciding if a group of words are nouns, verbs or both
  • Discussing the benefits and drawbacks of social networking on business

  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/Twitter
  http://twitter.com/
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/feb/18/facebook-u-turn-on-privacy-changes

• February, 2009
• Gadget Heaven or Hell Worksheet Teacher's Notes

  Level - Intermediate and above

• Slumdog Millionaire Worksheet Teacher's Notes

  Level - Pre-Intermediate

  This week's activities:

  • Deciding what a 'feel-good' film is, and if students have seen 'Slumdog Millionaire'
  • Practising saying figures
  • Scanning an article and filling in the missing figures
  • Reading an article about the film 'Slumdog Millionaire'
  • Replacing the missing vowels in a set of verbs which collocate with 'money'
  • Comparing 'rags to riches' stories and other points 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.foxsearchlight.com/slumdogmillionaire/
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slumdog_Millionaire
  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010048/

• January, 2009
• Futurology Worksheet Teacher's Notes

  Level - Intermediate and above

  This week's activities:

  • Deciding the movement of a set of trend words
  • Scanning an article to find the trend words from exercise 1
  • Reading the article about predictions for 2009
  • Identifying one word which does not collocate with 'prediction'
  • Making and discussing students' own predictions for the coming year

  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/Futurology
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5THpC1yDQG4
  http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/155590/top_tech_predictions_for_2009.html
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7727893.stm

• December, 2008
• Fashion in the Workplace Worksheet Resource

  Level - Pre-Intermediate

  This week's activities:

  • Deciding if items of clothing are formal, informal or both
  • Guessing the correct survey results in an extract from a report
  • Reading an article about fashion in the workplace
  • Deciding if certain words from the article are nouns, verbs or both
  • Discussing points 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://fashion.about.com/od/workstyle/Work_Style.htm
  http://fashion.about.com/od/workstyle/ig/Would-You-Wear-This-to-Work-/Bold-Print--Office-Ready-.htm
  http://www.virginmedia.com/jobs/features/workplacefashionmistakes.php

• November, 2008
• The Wacky Office Worksheet Teacher's Notes

  Level - Upper  Intermediate

  This week's activities:

  • Matching a set of words with their opposites
  • Scanning a radio transcript to find some words from the first exercise
  • Reading the transcript about work environments
  • Deciding if words from the transcript are nouns, verbs or both
  • Ranking facilities for a new, purpose-built headquarters

  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://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7290322.stm
  http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/worklife/07/18/wacky.workspace/index.html
  https://members.microsoft.com/careers/mslife/locations/corpcampus.mspx
  http://www.flexibility.co.uk/flexwork/offices/facilities2.htm

• October, 2008
• Hidden Costs Worksheet Teacher's Notes

  Level - Intermediate and above

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