This document outlines the activities and objectives for a business English foundations tutoring course. It includes 3 main activities: 1) Presenting a product using adjectives and past tense, 2) Describing people by writing a biography of a famous entrepreneur, and 3) Creating an infographic project in 4 steps. It provides guidelines, practice exercises, and resources for grammar and reading skills to help students meet the competencies of describing company colleagues, products, and profiles as well as comprehending and expressing business information orally and in writing.

1. BUSINESS
ENGLISH
FOUNDATIONS
2
TUTORING 1
MARTHA MENDEZ B.
2014

2. GENERAL ISSUES
TELL ME MORE:
To reinforce the communicative competencies
related to an elementary level in daily life as well as
in business contexts.
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You will be given a username and a password to
start working in the Tell me more platforms. If you do
not get it, you have to write an email to
mariae.salcedo@correo.ean.edu.co explaining the
situation (write your full name, your ID number and
your tutor´s name).
11% of your final grade.

3. Competencies

4. COMPANIES , SALES, AND
PEOPLE
Guideline 1
Purpose:
To know important qualities inside a company,
discuss ideas about sales strategies and to express
events in the past.
 COMPETENCIES:
Describing company colleagues, describing a
product and a company profile. Being able to to
understand, report and interpret information by
listening, to comprehend information by reading
texts, to contextualize information and to express
ideas in oral and written way in business contexts
applying appropriate grammar elements.
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5. ACTVITIES
Actividad 1. Presenting a product.
Actividad 2. Describing people.
Actividad 3. Project. (FIRST STEP)

6.  Presenting
a product
To apply English language elements to
describe products using adjectives and
past tense.
 Product:
An email and an oral presentation of a
product uploaded at www.youtube.com.
(Open a channel)
 A summary(biography)

7. Remember:
 Word
document with the email describing
a product and the draft of the product
presentation sent through the virtual
room. Include the link of your oral
presentation done in www. youtube.com
and the learning check guideline.

8. 2. Describing people
Product: A summary based on a reading.
Search a biography based on a famous
entrepreneur and write a summary of
his/her life. Include important facts and
explain why you consider him/her
important. Submit it and publish it in your
portfolio including his/her picture.

9. Activity 3 PROJECT:
INFOGRAPHICS
The project will be done in 4 steps, each
one with a submission in each learning
guide.
First step: Mind map and Chart
See instructions.

10. Practice
READING SKILLS
Facts
Facts are statements that can be proven.
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Facts may be true or false.
But facts can be proven.
Examples
1. Statistically, women live longer than men.
2.
Most buses weigh more than most cars.
3.
There are ten inches in a foot (false).
BIOGRAPHY:
http://mrnussbaum.com/benstory/

11. GRAMMAR
 PAST:
http://www.bradleys-englishschool.com/online/matchingpairs/mpiregp
ast5.html
http://www.montsemorales.com/gramatica
/PastSimpAffIrregSw2-4.htm

12. Conversation
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Where did you grow up?
Do you have any pets?
Do you have any siblings?
Do you know what your your name means?
What type of phone do you have?
What did you do this past weekend?
What are your plans for this weekend?
What do you like to do in your spare time?
What is the first thing you do when you wake up?
What is the last thing you do before you go to sleep?
What is your middle name?
What was the last thing you purchased?
What is your favorite holiday?
What is your favorite day of the week?