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Business English Ideas: April 2015
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Lesson ideas, perspectives on course planning, and more for in-company and freelance Business English Trainers. Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Adding pragmatics to training: Example lesson. It's great that the field of pragmatics is getting so much attention in Business English at the moment. I see the Chua Suan Chong gave a presentation. But I decided to give it a try with a controlled scenario and topic. namely giving tasks to others and politeness. This is a good situation because the situation is...Metho...
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Business English Ideas: 10 Things you should learn when starting Business English training
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Lesson ideas, perspectives on course planning, and more for in-company and freelance Business English Trainers. Monday, April 27, 2015. 10 Things you should learn when starting Business English training. Just doing a little Sunday blog catch up when I came across Rachel Dew's report. With that in mind, here are 10 things you should learn when starting work in Business English. 1 How to complete a proper needs analysis. 2 How to teach one-to-one. As a further step, you may want to learn some methods coach...
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Business English Ideas: August 2014
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Lesson ideas, perspectives on course planning, and more for in-company and freelance Business English Trainers. Tuesday, August 26, 2014. Revisiting the Communicative Event. Let's look quickly at customization. We can customize a course/lesson at several levels. A slide I didn't use in Cologne, but probably should have. Below that is a skill to perform a certain function. For presentations, that might be to persuade, introduce, report, etc. Most course books have taken lessons to this level and i...Final...
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Business English Ideas: February 2014
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Lesson ideas, perspectives on course planning, and more for in-company and freelance Business English Trainers. Wednesday, February 19, 2014. The Late Winter Doldrums - A Journal Entry. The main purpose of this blog is to help myself get out of situations like this, reflect on my training, set priorities, connect with others, and drive myself to do better. So today I will give a report on yesterday's training and hopefully identify ways it could be better. I started the morning at 6 am. The participant p...
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Business English Ideas: April 2014
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Lesson ideas, perspectives on course planning, and more for in-company and freelance Business English Trainers. Wednesday, April 30, 2014. My Journey in Training Methods. I received some constructive criticism about my post on Business English in 2014. And it sent me into reflection. One of the points was that we do. It was a valuable experience and I am thankful to have had it. But it also became clear that it didn't work exactly as advertised. You're in the Army Again. This required a change in needs a...
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Business English Ideas: Where did Charles Rei go...?
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Lesson ideas, perspectives on course planning, and more for in-company and freelance Business English Trainers. Sunday, February 22, 2015. Where did Charles Rei go? That is a question I have been asking myself for about a year now as I have largely stepped back from the international teaching/training network. No Twitter, close to zero blog posts, no conferences. nothing. Here are my current development projects:. Customized language training courses for a tax consultancy. 15 participants in two groups.
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IT STARTED IN STUTTGART...: "Here lies..." (The Pragfriedhof, Stuttgart)
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IT STARTED IN STUTTGART. A photo-blog for those who love history. A blog that makes its way throughout the Federal Republic of Germany, starting in the environs of Stuttgart, in the southern state of Baden-Württemberg. This photographer-writer takes his readers on a photographic journey as he discovers new places to photograph. Follow along as he visits Germany's known and lesser-known places and takes excursions across its borders. Friday, May 25, 2012. Here lies." (The Pragfriedhof, Stuttgart). Whateve...
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IT STARTED IN STUTTGART...: Shades of Solitude
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IT STARTED IN STUTTGART. A photo-blog for those who love history. A blog that makes its way throughout the Federal Republic of Germany, starting in the environs of Stuttgart, in the southern state of Baden-Württemberg. This photographer-writer takes his readers on a photographic journey as he discovers new places to photograph. Follow along as he visits Germany's known and lesser-known places and takes excursions across its borders. Sunday, May 6, 2012. Half-timber) structures, I was shown the room befor...
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Business English Ideas: June 2014
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Lesson ideas, perspectives on course planning, and more for in-company and freelance Business English Trainers. Wednesday, June 25, 2014. Why Business English Training is like a Smart Phone. I had a discussion recently with a fellow trainer about drafting and using performance objectives (can do statements). In the discussion, I used the simile of a smart phone, but I did not really have my thoughts in order. So here is a clearer discussion. Instead, the true power of the smart phone is ability to custom...
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Business English Ideas: January 2014
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Lesson ideas, perspectives on course planning, and more for in-company and freelance Business English Trainers. Wednesday, January 8, 2014. Business English in 2014. Like many of you I assume, I have finally emerged from a tunnel of work (and reentered another). After a few weeks of vacation, I am already looking forward to a great 2014. I will be doing a bit more travelling and hopefully will pick up on a few more ideas to explore, test, and evaluate in my training. Here are my initial observations.