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Workshop given at the VHS Ludwigsburg March 28th, 2009Karenne SylvesterKalinago English
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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?
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
What is intelligence?
Who�s Who?
(game)
How do people learn?
What Business skillsdo your studentsneed to learn?
What Business skills are youteaching?
What language skills are youpractising?
How are you teachingthem?
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�show you are smart!
Howard Gardner interviewCommon MiraclesABC 1993
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
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
� WEBSITES
� Macmillan� Pearson Longman *(Penguin)
� Cambridge University Press� Oxford University Press
� One Stop� Guardian Weekly
Supplementary Materials:Publishing Houses
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
� Intelligence
� Learner style � learner
appeal
� Business skills set
� Language skills practice
(activity)
ThreatsOpportunities
WeaknessesStrengths
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
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
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:
� 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
Authentic Materials
� What are the key differences betweenmaterial from the Publishers, materialsfrom the ‛net and authentic materials?
� Which do you use with whom? Why?
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
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
What have you made foryour students?
Share:
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