Pepping up your Business English Coursebooks

Pepping Up Your Business English Course Book

©Karenne Sylvester Kalinago Englishwww.kalinago-english.com

http://kalinago.blogspot.com

March 28, 2009

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Why do Business English Textbooks need pepping?

VHS Teacher Training Workshop

10.00 � 11.30

� Multiple Intelligences

� Learner Styles

� What do yourstudents want to learn?

11.45 � 13.15

� Supplementing from thePublishers� Books� Websites

14.00 � 15.30

� Supplementing with authenticmaterials

15.45 � 17.00

� Creating materials yourself

© Karenne Sylvester Kalinago Englishwww.kalinago-english.com

http://kalinago.blogspot.com

March 28, 2009

What is intelligence?

Who�s Who?

(game)

How do people learn?

What Business skillsdo your studentsneed to learn?

What Business skills are youteaching?

What language skills are youpractising?

How are you teachingthem?

If these men were your students and you had to teach them BE, how would you teach them?

It�s not how smart you are, it�show you are smart!

Howard Gardner interviewCommon MiraclesABC 1993

VHS Teacher Training Workshop

11.45 � 13.15

� Supplementingfrom the Publishers�Books�Websites

� SWOT analysis

14.00 � 15.30

� Supplementing withauthentic materials

15.45 � 17.00

� Creating materialsyourself

© Karenne Sylvester Kalinago Englishwww.kalinago-english.com

http://kalinago.blogspot.com

March 28, 2009

Supplementary Materials:Publishing Houses

� BOOKS (http://tiny.cc/KEbks)

� InCompany Case Studies, Macmillan� Business English Pairwork, Penguin� Business Communication Games, OUP� Business English Teachers Resource Book, Pearson

Longman� In Business, CUP� Business English Frameworks, CUP� Decisionmaker, CUP� Business Builder, Macmillan� Five Minute Activities for Business English, CUP

� WEBSITES

� Macmillan� Pearson Longman *(Penguin)

� Cambridge University Press� Oxford University Press

� One Stop� Guardian Weekly

Supplementary Materials:Publishing Houses

Supplementary Materials:The Internet

� Blogs� Jamie Keddie (youtube & activities & more)� Kalinago English (lesson tips, worksheets & more)� Strictly4myteachers (grammar tips, ideas)� Sixthings.net (methodology, interviews, tips+++)� 24 minutes a day (tech-tips)� The Spelling Blog� Movie Segments to assess grammar goals

� Sites� Breaking News (news articles & activities)� ESL Teachers Board � Handouts online� Teachit� BBC Learning English

� ??? What other sites have you downloaded stuff from?

Supplementary Materials

� Analyzing materials

� Intelligence

� Learner style � learner

appeal

� Business skills set

� Language skills practice

(activity)

ThreatsOpportunities

WeaknessesStrengths

Educational psychologists point to threemajor sources of motivation in learning:

�Learners� natural interests

=intrinsic satisfaction

�Teacher/institute/employer�s approval

=extrinsic satisfaction

�Success in the task

=satisfaction and reward

Fisher, 1990

VHS Teacher Training Workshop

14.00 � 15.30

� Supplementing withauthentic materials� Why?

� What?

� How?

� When?

� Using the Internet to find materials forclass

15.45 � 17.00

� Creating activities & materials yourself

© Karenne Sylvester Kalinago Englishwww.kalinago-english.com

http://kalinago.blogspot.com

March 28, 2009

Authentic Materials

� What is realia ?

� Usage of realia:�Why?

�What?

� How?

�When?

Why should you use the Internet to source realia?

Video: Teacher Tube: Pay Attention

Authentic Materials For Business English students

� Internet Options

� Online Newspapers

� Blogs

� Company websites

� YouTube

� TED talks

� I-tunes

� What are you using with your students?

Looking at some examples:

� Listening: Podcasts: The Economist, FTD, etc

� Songs: The Patterns in Music + Personal MBA blog

� Watching: The History of the Internet

� Reading: Blogs: Seth Godin, Chris Brogan, Lifehacker, Customer is not always right, DumbLittleMenand many, many, many, many, more�.

� Talking: Slideshare: Financial Crisis, Death by Powerpoint

� Writing: Students� blogging and twittering + other web2.0

Authentic Materials

� What are the key differences betweenmaterial from the Publishers, materialsfrom the ‛net and authentic materials?

� Which do you use with whom? Why?

Engage students in authentic tasks,assist students with producingknowledge bases that promote theapplication of information and diversityof thought; build learning communitiesthat promote substantial, applicablelearning.

Brandt, 1992

VHS Teacher Training Workshop

15.45 � 17.00

� Stuff you've made

� SimplyConversationsTM

� Principles for creating materials yourself and getttingyour students creating: an action plan

� Presentations & Reflection

© Karenne Sylvester Kalinago Englishwww.kalinago-english.com

http://kalinago.blogspot.com

March 28, 2009

What have you made foryour students?

Share:

Kalinago English

� SimplyConversationsTM

� SimplyQuestsTM

An Action Plan:

How will you be pepping up

your Business English courses

in the future?

VHS Teacher Training Workshop

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tech-tips for ELT teachers:

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