Teaching Advanced Learners Business English

Karenne Sylvester www.kalinago-english.com - http://kalinago.blogspot.com - http://how2learnenglish.blogspot.com Teaching Advanced Learners Business English VHS Leinfelden 13-06-09

Agenda

10.00 – 11.30 Defining the Advanced Learner
11.45 – 13.00 Textbooks vs. Authentic Material
13.00 – 13.45 Lunch
13.45 – 15.00 Internet / Videos
15.15 – 16.15 Role & real play
16.15 - 17.00 Feedback and Grammar

Karenne Sylvester www.kalinago-english.com - http://kalinago.blogspot.com - http://how2learnenglish.blogspot.com

Who are the advanced learners? What are (will be) their jobs?

Why do advanced learners keep taking English classes?

What do they need to learn? What do they want to learn?

Where are the resources?

Do you create a learning program? If so, how?

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. Lao Tzu Karenne Sylvester www.kalinago-english.com - http://kalinago.blogspot.com - http://how2learnenglish.blogspot.com

Reading, Writing & Vocabulary 11.45 - 13.00 Business + News (+Magazines) vs. Business Blogs vs. Bestselling business books vs. Textbooks vs. Company materials

The Business World

Books

The Google Story
The Long Tail
Tipping Point
Microtrends

Magazines

The Economist
BusinessWeek
Time

Newspapers

Financial Times

Blogs

Seth Godin
Presentation Zen
Dumb Little Men
The customer is not always right
Engadget
Autoblog

The Business English World

Blogs for language learners

How to learn English
English Spark
English at Home
Business Spotlight
Bite-sized-English

Ways to teach Vocabulary

S W O T

To lead people, walk beside them. Lao Tzu Karenne Sylvester www.kalinago-english.com - http://kalinago.blogspot.com - http://how2learnenglish.blogspot.com

Listening, Watching & Vocabulary (examples)

i-tunes

YouTube TED Big Think Pop!Casts

What else have you seen or found? What could you look for?

Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream. Lao Tzu Karenne Sylvester www.kalinago-english.com - http://kalinago.blogspot.com - http://how2learnenglish.blogspot.com

Adding drama

The Superhero
The Chair

16.15 - 17.00
Giving Feedback
Grammar

Dramatic Activities

Textbooks

Market Leader
Intelligent Business

Supplementary books

Business Roles 1 + 2
Decisionmaker
InCompany Case studies
Business Rewards

Methodology book

Drama & Improvisation, OUP by Ken Wilson

The Chair Who is the Expert? What can you teach us? Adapted from Experts - Ken Wilson, Drama and Improvisation OUP

The Superhero, item of office equipment and a building in the city centre... What happened? Adapted from Superhero, household object & location - Ken Wilson, Drama and Improvisation

Fossilized Errors and Feedback

?

Advanced Grammar

Verb infinitives, ing forms
Determiners & quantifiers
Participle clauses

Leaving words out

Prepositions

Connectors

and...

1 + 5 kung fu by hyeenus
3 + 4 she knows kung fu by richard masoner
6 + 7 tai chi praying mantis by stevendepolo
9 -13 shaolin kungfu monks by dennis kruyt
15 + 16 the art of shaolin kungfu by kevin poh
18 + 19 Franzli kungfu panda by Roberto Rizzato
20 .45 r.p.m art chair by Gary Bridgeman
21 it's not easy being a superhero by Esparta
22 tai chi praying mantis festival by stevendepelo
23 kungfu tournament by midwinterpolo

Task based Language Learning and Teaching
Rod Ellis OUP
Drama and Improvisation
Ken Wilson OUP
Second Language Needs Analysis
Michael Long CUP
One to One
Peter Wilberg LTP Teacher Training

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