Headphones for ICT lesson

Dear All,

Just a quick note to ask you to please bring a set of headphones to the lesson this evening if you have them. We'll be using the computers for some listening tasks and we'll make each other deaf if all of us use the speakers on the computers.



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Thanks! Seth.

Welcome Back!

Dear Everyone,

Welcome back! I hope you had a great summer. Hopefully we'll all feel relaxed and refreshed after the long break and be ready to study again.



Here are the links to the surveys that I have received so far :) We'll be doing these later on in class, so you don't need to complete them now. If you haven't sentr me your survey yet, please send it as soon as you can!

Fernando's Travel Survey

Giuseppe's Cinema Survey

Bianca's Cinema Survey

Orbolec's Films Survey

Wanda's Freetime Survey


See you all soon,

Seth.

If I had $1,000,000

If you had 1,000,000 What would you buy? Here are a few ideas from the group "The Barenaked Ladies.

1) Watch the film and write down all the things he would buy his girlfrind to try to impress her.



2) Now listen again, this time without the video and complete the worksheet with all the ideas he has.

3) If you were English, what would you do? Where would you live? How would you act? What would you eat? Where would you work? Use this space to share your ideas.



Alternatively go to the wall directly here and share your ideas: http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/IfIwereEnglish

Survey - What Times suit you best?

Dear All,

We have a meeting tomorrow to arrange the smaller groups we will be studying in in June. We'd like to know whether you would like to continue with 2 hour lessons or if you would prefer to change to 3 hour lessons as was suggested last week.

Please complete this brief survey to help us, thanks!

TED Talk - The Power of the Internet

Dear All,

here is the video we watched in last week's lesson. It contains some really great ideas about how internet marketing and how it works best if are ready to lose control.

Watch the video again and complete the worksheet I gave you at the end of the lesson. Then, try watching again, this time with either the English, or Italian subtitles to check your understanding.

You'll find many other great videos like this one at www.TED.com, too. See if there's anything else you like! If you find something good, why not share it with the class by leaving a comment at the end of this post?

Have fun learning!

Pronunciation Practice

Hi there folks,

here is a great website for practising your pronunciation, or rather, for learning the phonetic alphabet. It's called Phonetics Focus and it's free to use!

PLease do 2 or 3 activities for your homework this wek. Thanks!

I hope you find it useful!

Seth.

Telephone English pt II

Hi there evreyone, here are the last two parts of the telephone English we looked at in class.

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Here is the listening for "Wrong Numbers."

and here is the worksheet (pdf.)

Here is the listening for "Making Appointments."

and here is the worksheet (pdf.)

Finally, if you would like to look at all of these activities again, you'll find them on the BBC Business English website. Please only do the Telephone section, as we will be doing som of the other sections later in the course!

Telephone English

Dear All,

Hope you've had a good week. Here are the links to the telephone English language we heard last week.

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Please have a listen to the first piece and try to copy the pronunciation.
BBC English - Answering the phone - Audio.

Now listen to the second part - taking messages.

1. Download the worksheet and print it out.
   
2. Listen to the audio recording.
3. See if you can put the conversation in the right order on the worksheet.
4. Listen again and practise the pronunciation.

BBC English - Taking Messages - Worksheet
BBC English - Taking Messages - Audio

Have fun learning. See you all next week.

Seth.

Homework for 20th April 2010

Hi there folks!

Thanks for a great first lesson. It was really nice to have met you all.

Here's are the slides I used for my 1 minute "Introduce Myself" presentation. Please make a similar (short) presentation to introduce yourself to the class for next week's lesson.

Introduction To Me - Web Version

View more presentations from Seth dickens.

Remember: it only needs to be one minute long. Actually there are too many slides in this version here. Yours can be shorter.

If you can't manage to prepare a PowerPoint presentation for next week, just bring some photos to class. Make sure that they present you though! Also, make sure that you are ready to talk about your presentation to the class!

See you next week.

Seth.

Welcome To Our Business English Course!

Hi there everyone and welcome to our business English course!

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This is the blog for our course where we will post some occasional digital work that we do.

I'm really looking forward to meeting you all and getting to know you all.

See you soon!

Seth

Needs Analysis

Dear all. To make sure I teach you as well as possible I want to know what you want and what you need to learn. Please discuss this survey with a partner, then complete it for you.

Thanks!

Seth.