There Must Be Another Way

Noa & Mira Awad



I'ts been a pleasure teaching you. All the best for your education and future professional carreers. I'll be there if you need any help, OK?

Jesús

Reading out of Unit 3 page 39

As promised in class, I have recorded the reading out of the text so that you can listen to it and learn the pronunciation of the new vocabulary dealt with in it.

* pronunciation of text in textbook page 39 - Types of Business (non-profit making units)

Take care and see you tomorrow morning in class.

Welcome back!

I hope you have enjoyed your holidays.

Now, it's back-to-business time, isn't it?.

Please, read the articles on the Box.net module on the left and make personal comments on what you think of the situation posed by the Economist and the reaction of El País.

Alternatively, click on this link.

See you.

Link to the business letters page used in class on 31 March 2009

* Link to main page.

* Link to Vocabulary on business letters and their definitions in English.

* Link to an example of the order of the parts of a business letter.

Volunteer Presentations - Introducing Topics & Participants

Here we can see the video-recordings with your briefing on the topic outlines of your future presentations in the order of presentations.

You have to see all the videos and follow the instructions below.

The JOMES Team



Heineken



Richar's Girls Team



The Butterfly Co. Team



The Dream Team



Javier's Team



The Business Area Team



All of you should have an individual blogger account, enter this blog with that account and make comments on the performance of at least three people from different teams other than yours. These comments should be done in this post.

Then, as a team, you should embed your own team's video into the teams' blog and should make comments on the performance of the team.

All comments in English, please.

Renewables in the North East

Hi, Everybody. Today's tasks are:

First, watch the videos on renewables from The Financial Times about the North East England Region and in Abu Dhabi.

• Offshore wind in the North East (Feb 27 file);
• Green futuristic city in Abu Dhabi (Jan 22 file).

Then, read relevant articles on the Wikipedia site or the Vanguardia report.

• On Abu Dhabi;
• on North East England;
• the La Vanguardia article on Spain's economical prospects to get out of the economic crisis.

After that, record your own two minute impressions of these developments and their application to Spain and Extremadura on an mp3 file.

Then, we will link your voice files to your team's blog. For that, each student will need to open a new account with Box.net for free, upload the mp3 file to your storage space in that account and then include a gadget in your team box where you can create a link to your own personal file.

Finally, you will have to post your personal comments to this blog to assess today's class:

1. Difficulties encountered,
2. strengths,
3. weaknesses,
4. and suggestions for future lessons.

Please, remember that I will be in the classroom with you to help you with language or any technical problems the tasks may pose to you.

I hope you enjoy and learn a lot from the proposed activities.

Jesús

10 March 2009 class

Links:
www.wordreference.com/definition/trade
www.wordreference.com/definition/commerce

Exercise: textual help

Classify the following expressions:

so, it implies, however, in the strictest/ broadest sense, it also refers to, make sth possible, includes, from … to, Thus, stands midway between, will now be dealt with, a three-step process, the first step/ step two, X, can be classified into two main areas, the former/ the latter, an activity known as, whereas, mostly pertains to, that render assistance to X by -ing and by reducing risks, trade within a country, but when it takes place across national borders, known as either x, y or z, while X/ the former deals with (trata sth) …, Y/ the latter is concerned with (se ocupa de), On the other hand, engaged (que se dedican) in (a), i.e., the last step, involves, therefore, should be useful in satisfying customers' wants (deseos-wish) and needs, in order for X to complete Y

into one of the following categories:

* verbos de relación/ clasificación
* sustantivos
* conjunciones
* construcciones sintácticas interesantes
* preposiciones