Agenda+LE

Welcome to the wiki for the subject 4816 Inglés Económico. Here you have the agenda to follow the contents:
 * Please, upload your C.Vs and Cover letters for the Job Application (add the link in the letter) to the Blackboard. **
 * I advise you to use a spellchecker before you hand in any essay. **

Homework: pages 40,41: complete the franchisee brochure. Take the photocopies for the second part of theTerm. || Introduction to Unit 5:International business: [|Statistics about emerging economies.] ||
 * 22/03/2011 || Unit 3:Retailing.
 * Introduction types of [|outlets]
 * Reading Comprehension: Vocabulary and expressions.
 * Indirect questions for surveys. ||
 * 23/03/2011 || Unit 3: Listening exercise.
 * Uses of Make and do: [|Expressions with make & do]; [|Exercises]
 * Word formation exercises ||
 * 29/03/2011 || Unit 4: Franchising Lead-in.
 * Watch video of Lisa Gansky: [|The future of business.]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Debate afterwards,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Homework: composition writing ||
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">30/03/2011 || <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Writing Reports.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Stage 1: Preparing a report, writing a draft.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Follow model from this writing bank:[[file:Writing Bank.PDF]]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Apply the following data ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">5/04/2011 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Holiday ||
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">6/04/2011 || <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">.. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Oral Discussion: Advantages and disadvantages of a franchise system for a franchisee.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Listening Comprehension page 35 ex3.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Composition Writing: Advantages/disadvantages ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">12/04/2011 || <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">..Reading Comprehension, vocabulary and expressions: One day in the life of a franchisee page 36. Vocabulary and expressions used in the text. Oral discussion about Time Management from questionnaire page 37. Listening exercise page 42. ||
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">13/04/2011 || <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">..Grammar point: Used to vs to Be Used to+-ing. Vocabulary development suffixes and adverbs.Page 38
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">19/04/2011 || Video: [|Microfinance: Does it really work?]
 * Investigate the drawbacks the system has for poor people, before delivering your presentatios.
 * [|Documentos TV: RTVE a la carta.: Microcréditos.]
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">20/04/2011 || Unit 5 Lead in: discussion about cultural differences, and [|the world business culture]

Managers profile in five different cultures (pages 44, 45).Reading comprehension: Learning to cope with corporate cultures.Vocabulary. Homework: <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Revision Units 1-5 || Homework: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Important abbreviations. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Vocabulary related to Business Skills through the Test "Are you a good negotiator?" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Listening exercise page: 64 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Homework:
 * Listening page 52, do the listening twice before you check your answers with the tapescrips, it will provide practice for the exam.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Do the Review 1 for units 1-5, pages 54,55, that will help you revising for the exam. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">3/05/2011 || <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">…Unit 6: Banking:[|Intro: The Post-crisis Consumer]
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">4/05/2011 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Unit 6: Banking.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Listening Comprehension page 56.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Discussion about the different sort of services companies require from their Banks.: [|Example]
 * Reading Comprehension page 58
 * Vocabulary pages: 59, 60, 61
 * Language Focus:Allow, Enable, Let. Exercise ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">10/05/2011 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Homework correction.
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">11/05/2011 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Unit 8: The Stock Market.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Key Vocabulary and Listening Comprehension: p75&82.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">The Third Conditional; Still/Yet/Already: p79
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Grammar Summary: [[file:Grammar Reference.PDF]]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Reading Comprehension pages 76&77 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">17/05/2011 || <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">ORAL PRESENTATIONS: <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">GROUPS 1-2 [[file:Oral ScheduleIV.doc]] ||
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">18/05/2011 || <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">ORAL PRESENTATIONS: <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">GROUPS 3-4 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">24/05/2011 || <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">ORAL PRESENTATIONS: <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">GROUPS 5-6 Import Export listening exercises pages84,89,92. ||
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">25/05/2011 || <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">ORAL PRESENTATIONS: <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">GROUP 7 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">31-1/06/2011 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Exam REVISION of contents seen, session of queries, to solve questions you may have before the exam.[[file:vocab units5-10.PDF]][[file:mock LE.docx]] Review 2 pages 104;105 ||

I had some problems editing the agenda, so I lost some contents, fortunately I had a backup at the blackboard; If the links do not work from here, log in the Blackboard to get a quick access. <span style="color: purple; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">HOMEWORK: for the ones who haven't attended the lesson, please do listening exercises pages 4& 5, have a look at the transcripts at the end, pay attention to the vocabulary and expressions. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">**Listening Comprehension: Ted's Talk Analysis, [|Success is a continuous journey] Discussion afterwards.** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">** [|Summary] ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Homework: vocabulary exercises page 7. For the ones who didn't hand in their first day compositions (to introduce yourselves), prepare one for next day. || More about describing trends; [|Introduction, general ideas] ; [|A summary] **Homework**: [|Describing_Graphs_worksheet.pdf] || Listening: description "how a company has changed in the last years". Speaking: Describing job profiles. Asking and giving information about companies. End of Unit 1. **Homework**: read the following tips for: [|Job Interviews] [|prepare your C.V], send it to me, please. || **Homework**: You'll have to look for [|a real job abroad], related to your C.V, write a letter of application for the job together with your C.V and send it to me.follow the model page 22 or [|Cover Letters] [|Steps to be successful at a job interview: video] Reading comprehension page16, Reading exercise page 17, Vocabulary exercise n3, and vocabulary development page19. || Listening exercise page 20 || Beginning Unit 3 : Retailing: Introduction types of [|outlets] FOR NEXT WEEK!!!: Form groups of 6 for the oral Presentations in May. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">FECHA DE CLASE ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">DESARROLLO TEMÁTICO ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">15/02/2011 || <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE. SS' presentations. ||
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">16/02/2011 || **<span style="color: purple; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Unit 1: Company Structures. **<span style="color: purple; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Departments in a Company: Organisation Chart. Describing responsibilities in a company.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">22/02/2011 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Diagnostic Test**: Self-evaluation that will target your problems in General English. If your mark is less than 25, revise the contents for an A2-B1.**
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">23/02/2011 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Reading Comprehension page 6. Listening page 7: understanding figures, number dictation.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">1/03/2011 || Vocabulary development pages 7&8. Language focus page 9: reflexion on the use of present perfect vs past simple. Introduction to vocabulary, verbs and expressions to describe changes and trends.Listening: Sb describing a job in a company, page 11.
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">2/03/2011 || [|Describing trends or movements].
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">8/03/2011 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Unit 2**: Recruitment. Listening about qualities, knowledge and mistakes about candidates, p23. [|Covering letters], page 22, writing page 21** ||
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">9/03/2011 || [|Interview Do's and Don'ts] .Stages of an interview and questions related to each section, listening page 24
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">15/03/2011 || Homework correction: Vocabulary and expressions reading page 16.
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">16/03/2011 || Present Simple vs Present Continuous practice [[image:http://c1.wikicdn.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png link="http://blackboard.unican.es/webct/ContentPageServerServlet/Desarrollo%20tem%C3%A1tico%20hasta%2016-03-2011.html?pageID=946641538001"]] [|PresentSvsPrC.PDF] [|General Revision]