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

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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.