In Company – eLessons

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• 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

• High speed internet Worksheet Teacher's Notes

  Level - Intermediate and above

  • Comparing the speeds of students' internet connections at home and work
  • Completing a chart about broadband speeds in different countries
  • Reading an article about the future of broadband
  • Guessing the frequency of some of the words in the article
  • 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/Broadband
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_optic
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7600834.stm
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7610534.stm

• Holistic Holidays Worksheet Teacher's Notes

  Level - Intermediate and above

  This week's activities:

  • Checking students know some words connected with well-being holidays
  • Scanning an article to find the words from the first exercise
  • Reading the article on holistic holidays
  • Finding words in the article from their definitions
  • Discussing and choosing a well-being holiday

  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/radio4/factual/travellerstree/
  http://www.floatworks.com/about/what_is
  http://www.hoho.co.uk/
  http://www.shiatsusociety.org/public/index.shtml
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_coaching#Life_coaching

• Merger Mania Worksheet Teacher's Notes

  Level - Upper  Intermediate

• September, 2008
• Dragon's Den Worksheet Teacher's Notes

  Level - Upper  Intermediate

  This week's activities:

  • Finding out what students know about the programme Dragon's Den
  • Matching headings to the correct paragraphs
  • Reading an article about Dragon's Den
  • Identifying the one word which does not collocate with the word at the end of the line
  • Devising a business idea and making an 'elevator pitch'

  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/dragonsden/
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons'_Den
  http://www.magicpaper.co.uk
  http://www.businessopportunitiesandideas.co.uk/374/
  dragons-wrong-again
  http://www.open2.net/moneyandmanagement/
  management_organisation/entrepreneur.html

• Banking Crisis Worksheet Teacher's Notes

  Level - Upper  Intermediate

  This week's activities:

  • Deciding if a set of business and financial words are positive, negative or neutral
  • Sequencing financial headlines in chronological order
  • Reading a transcript of a Finance programme about banking
  • Identifying the odd word out of a list of collocations
  • Discussing questions arising from the transcript

  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.lehman.com/
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBOS
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIG
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7625419.stm
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7521250.stm

• August, 2008
• Paperless office Worksheet Teacher's Notes

  Level - Intermediate

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