Scheduled for August 6th
US/UK/Hong Kong/South Africa/Sudan(Saudi Arabia)/Malawi/Portugal/Zimbabwe/Ghana
Business English for Higher Level Clients
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Introductions
Business Jargon
Six Thinking Hats - GW
Meetings
Lunch
Presenting
Negotiating- GW
PEST&SWOT - GW
Survey
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Workshop resources
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Introduction
What is “Business English”?
-English for a business purpose
What are the challenges you face when teaching higher level business clients?
-Meh, depends
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Business Jargon
Deal-breaker [n.]
-An issue which causes a relationship to fail. “Data breaches are a deal-breaker for most companies.”
Arrows to fire [exp.]
Backburner [n.] - unimportant tasks that are worked on in the background
Birdtable [v.]
Chainsaw consultant [n.]
Hammock task [n.]
Kilting [v.]
Repurpose [v.] - to take something and use it for something else
Rolling the tortoise [v.]
Red flag [n.]
Meanderthal [n.]
Programmatically [adv.]
Languaged [v.]
On the cheap [exp.]
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Useful
Backburner [n.] - unimportant tasks that are worked on in the background
Repurpose [v.] - to take something and use it for something else
Red flag [n.]
On the cheap [exp.]
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Business English Resources
Where can we find natural business English?
-Resource Lab (GFI)
-Business News (myRead)
-Business Podcasts
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Six Thinking Hats
What is the ‘Six Thinking Hats’ approach?
White - Factual - Looking at the facts, The evidence suggests, According to research
Red - Emotional - This doesn’t sit right with me, This is very exciting,
Yellow - Positive - On the bright side, Looking to the positives,
Black - Negative - I’m concerned
Green - Creative
Blue - Process
What does each hat represent?
What language can you think of to represent each hat?
What are the benefits to a client of this approach?
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Six Thinking Hats in a Lesson
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Specialized business requiests
How can you help clients with these specialized business requests
-Meetings
-Presenting
-Negotiating
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Meetings
What are typical language functions for a business meeting?
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How do the clients goals relate to this lesson function?
Project leader
-She will need to participate in meetings more often in the future, including leading a project team.
Which of the language functions listed previously best fit this lesson?
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Presenting
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Case study B
Presentations
Will need to make external presentations to recruits and recruitment specialists overseas. Would like to conduct every part of his work in English.
What are typical language tasks for a business presentation?
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What are typical audiences for a business presentation?
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How could you expand Practice A for this client?
-Starting the progress report as an
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Negotiating