pepping up your business english coursebooks
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Workshop given at the VHS Ludwigsburg March 28th, 2009Karenne SylvesterKalinago EnglishTRANSCRIPT
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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?
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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
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What is intelligence?
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Who�s Who?
(game)
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How do people learn?
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What Business skillsdo your studentsneed to learn?
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What Business skills are youteaching?
What language skills are youpractising?
How are you teachingthem?
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If these men were your students and you had to teach them BE, how would you teach them?
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It�s not how smart you are, it�show you are smart!
Howard Gardner interviewCommon MiraclesABC 1993
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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
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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
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� WEBSITES
� Macmillan� Pearson Longman *(Penguin)
� Cambridge University Press� Oxford University Press
� One Stop� Guardian Weekly
Supplementary Materials:Publishing Houses
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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?
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Supplementary Materials
� Analyzing materials
� Intelligence
� Learner style � learner
appeal
� Business skills set
� Language skills practice
(activity)
ThreatsOpportunities
WeaknessesStrengths
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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
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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
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Authentic Materials
� What is realia ?
� Usage of realia:�Why?
�What?
� How?
�When?
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Why should you use the Internet to source realia?
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Video: Teacher Tube: Pay Attention
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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?
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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
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Authentic Materials
� What are the key differences betweenmaterial from the Publishers, materialsfrom the ‛net and authentic materials?
� Which do you use with whom? Why?
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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
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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
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What have you made foryour students?
Share:
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Kalinago English
� SimplyConversationsTM
� SimplyQuestsTM
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An Action Plan:
How will you be pepping up
your Business English courses
in the future?
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VHS Teacher Training Workshop
For conversation materials to support Business English classes:
www.kalinago-english.com
To purchase supplementary books for Business English classes:
http://tiny.cc/KEbks
For regular tips and lesson plans; information on workshops and
tech-tips for ELT teachers:
http://kalinago.blogspot.com
For links to authentic materials and more:
http://www.delicious.com/kalinagoenglish *simplyc:+++
© Karenne Sylvester Kalinago English
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Photo credits:
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� Cosmos vs Diablas by Mike Baird�World's Best Boss by Kumar Appaiah