All Business / ESP articles – Page 15
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ArticleBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 11: Presentations
In the eleventh lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students learn different ways of starting a presentation, to describe charts and graphs, and how to invite and deal with questions.
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Macmillan Life Skills: People Management – Problems with people
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students discuss some problems at work and then report on the discussions developing the following life skills: giving advice and stating your opinions.
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ArticleBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 10: Setting personal goals
In the tenth lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students can talk about setting and achieving work-based goals, how happy they are in their work, and what changes could be made to improve their performance.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Geek-in-chief
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, focuses on Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo. Students discuss women in top positions and the character traits of their ideal boss.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: An impossible dream?
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight , focuses on the American Dream and life in the USA.
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ArticleBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 9: Dilemmas
In this lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students learn about dealing with dilemmas at work and how to be objective.
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ArticleMatura: Writing: Tourism
In this lesson focusing on writing reports, students learn how to summarize information, and to compare and contrast the information in tourism reports.
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ArticleMatura: Writing: World of Work
In this lesson focusing on writing emails, students learn to spot differences between formal and informal emails, and pick up useful phrases in an interview exercise.
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ArticleBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 8: Negotiations
In the eighth lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students can talk about a variety of negotiation topics, discuss their own negotiation experiences and act out a role-play in front of the class.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: When Superman died
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, focuses on the well-known comic figure, Superman, and the creators’ daring decision to kill him off to improve sales.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Time Management – Time is money
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students discuss the metaphor time is money and other time-related expressions developing the following life skills: time management and prioritisation.
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ArticleBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 7: Networking and small talk
In the seventh lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students talk about how to initiate and continue small talk with opening and follow-up questions, discuss a variety of small-talk topics and learn language to introduce a third person into a conversation.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Would independence help Scotland?
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, focuses on whether becoming independent would be beneficial for Scotland.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Networking – Meeting people
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students practise sharing business card information developing the following life skills: networking and making connections.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Selling yourself
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight , is about how to brand and sell yourself at work.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Networking – The office party
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students take part in a role-play which prompts them to gossip with colleagues and network with the president of the company developing the following life skills: networking, active listening and building confidence.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Invisible man
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight , is about Sir Jonathan Ive, Apple’s head of design, a man who could be famous, but isn’t.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Career / Work – Who gets the money?
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students work in groups to expand on a business idea and present it to the rest of the class developing the following life skills: critical thinking and citizenship.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Career / Work – CV Builder
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students discuss the purpose of a CV and using the worksheet create their own CV developing the following life skills: gathering and organizing information, prioritization, motivation, goal setting and values.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Have marketers become spies?
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight , questions whether consumers are aware of how much they are being spied on and how their digital data is used.