Pepping Up Your Business
English Course Book
March 28, 2009
www.kalinago-english.com
©Karenne Sylvester Kalinago English
http://kalinago.blogspot.com

Why do Business English
Textbooks need pepping?

VHS
Teacher Training Workshop
11.45 – 13.15
• Supplementing from the
10.00 – 11.30
Publishers
– Books
• Multiple Intelligences
– Websites
• Learner Styles 14.00 – 15.30
• Supplementing with authentic
materials
• What do your
students want to
learn?
15.45 – 17.00
• Creating materials yourself
March 28, 2009
www.kalinago-english.com
© Karenne Sylvester Kalinago English
http://kalinago.blogspot.com

What is intelligence?

Who’s Who?
(game)

arn?
ple le
pe o
w do
Ho

What Business skills
do your students
need to learn?

What Business skills are you
teaching?
What language skills are you
practising?
How are you teaching
them?

If these men were your students and you had to
teach them BE, how would you teach them?

It’s not how smart you are, it’s
how you are smart!
Howard Gardner interview
Common Miracles
ABC 1993

VHS
Teacher Training Workshop
14.00 – 15.30
11.45 – 13.15
• Supplementing with
authentic materials
• Supplementing
from the Publishers
– Books 15.45 – 17.00
• Creating materials
– Websites yourself
• SWOT analysis
March 28, 2009
www.kalinago-english.com
© Karenne Sylvester Kalinago English
http://kalinago.blogspot.com

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
–

Supplementary Materials:
Publishing Houses
• WEBSITES
– Macmillan
– Pearson Longman *(Penguin)
– Cambridge University Press
– Oxford University Press
– One Stop
– Guardian Weekly

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?

Supplementary Materials
• Analyzing materials Strengths Weaknesses
– Intelligence
– Learner style – learner
appeal
Opportunities Threats
– Business skills set
– Language skills practice
(activity)

Educational psychologists point to three
major 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

VHS
Teacher Training Workshop
15.45 – 17.00
14.00 – 15.30
• Creating activities &
• Supplementing with
materials yourself
authentic materials
– Why?
– What?
– How?
– When?
• Using the Internet to
find materials for
class
March 28, 2009
www.kalinago-english.com
© Karenne Sylvester Kalinago English
http://kalinago.blogspot.com

Authentic Materials
• What is realia ?
• Usage of realia:
– Why?
– What?
– How?
– When?

Why should you use the Internet to
source realia?

Video: Teacher Tube: Pay Attention

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?

Looking at some examples:
Podcasts: The Economist, FTD, etc
• Listening:
The Patterns in Music + Personal MBA blog
• Songs:
The History of the Internet
• Watching:
Blogs: Seth Godin, Chris Brogan, Lifehacker,
• Reading:
Customer is not always right, DumbLittleMen
and many, many, many, many, more….
Slideshare: Financial Crisis, Death by Powerpoint
• Talking:
Students’ blogging and twittering + other web2.0
• Writing:

Authentic Materials
• What are the key differences between
material from the Publishers, materials
from the ‛net and authentic materials?
• Which do you use with whom? Why?

Engage students in authentic tasks,
assist students with producing
knowledge bases that promote the
application of information and diversity
of thought; build learning communities
that promote substantial, applicable
learning.
Brandt, 1992

VHS
Teacher Training Workshop
15.45 – 17.00
• Stuff you've made
• SimplyConversationsTM
• Principles for creating materials yourself and gettting
your students creating: an action plan
• Presentations & Reflection
March 28, 2009
www.kalinago-english.com
© Karenne Sylvester Kalinago English
http://kalinago.blogspot.com

Share:
What have you made for
your students?

Kalinago English
• SimplyConversationsTM
• SimplyQuestsTM

An Action Plan:
How will you be pepping up
your Business English courses
in the future?

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

Photo credits:
Slide30
• www.flickr.com
– Nassim Nicolas Taleb by Agathe B
– Charging Bull by David Prior
– Cosmos vs Diablas by Mike Baird
– World's Best Boss by Kumar Appaiah