By Daniela Zalloccodzallocco@yahoo.com

I couldn´t get a good night sleep last night.Good thing we have English class today.

Walking Teaching Quiz:

AGREE DISAGREE

Don´t know

What do you think?Learning Business

English is serious business.

Business English teachers should master the subjects they are teaching.

“Chalk and Talk” is the most efficient way to teach Business English.

The most important thing about Business English is vocabulary.

There is no right or wrong way to teach Business English.

Students' and teachers' private life should be left out of the classroom.

AGREE DISAGREE

F L E X

B U S I N E S SBILITY

Teaching Adults: What do they need?

Real language – UMM (useful, meaningful and memorable).

Updated material.Topics that relate to them, to their business

(specific vocabulary).Assess their own progress.Recycle, recycle, recycle!

Work with what´s

happening now

Use tech wisely!

Use real people to tell real stories

Do some coaching!

Our life saver: How can we download videos from

the web?

Google “Commet Bird”Download it into your computer . You are ready to start downloading

things from all over the web!

1) What’s happening now?With the help of Youtube, find videos on what`s happening now and use them with your students

E.g: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AAa0gd7ClM

Business in the making!Find out more about your students´

jobs. Find interesting and even funny videos about their line of business.

E.g:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3exMUwbv-U

3) Let them say it! Use real stories from real people.

This guarantees more a more active use of the language. Why would you say it if they can?

Some more clues…He never graduated from college.He had cancer.He is adopted.

Who is he?

Steve Jobs

What does “Connecting the Dots” mean?

“You can't connect the dots looking forward.

You can only do it looking backwards”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

Take a minute and try to connect the dots in your life.

If I hadn’t………………., I wouldn`t have…………………………

If I hadn’t…………………, I wouldn`t have…………………………

If I hadn’t ……………….., I wouldn`t have…………………………

Use tech wiselyPractise pronunciation and

entonation: www.englishcentral.com

What does “learning” mean?

To learn or not to learn…“To learn is to increase your capacity to

accomplish what you desire, and in order to do so, you need to become aware of what you don’t know. You must know that there is a gap between what you want to accomplish and what you can. Then you must be willing to declare your inability to close that gap. You must always make that declaration to yourself and also to others. Then you have to make the commitment to learn.”

Freedy Kofman (Metamanagement)

Learning steps: Become aware of what “I don’t know”.Be willing to admit it to yourself and others.Commit to learn.

Freddy Kofman (Metamanagement)

Becoming a better leader…Look at the word TEACHER. Can

you find a better job title to describe your job?

E.g.:

• Real language: UMM stands for U_________, M_________& M___________

• You can’t connect the dots looking_______,

you can only do it looking__________• The three “learning steps” are:

a)___________b)___________

c) ___________

And remember…There’s no failure,

there’s only feedback. Don’t be afraid to try new things!

Further researchMolden, D. (1996) “Managing with the power

of NLP” Pearson, London.Sharma P. & Barrett B. (2007) “ Using

technology in and beyond the language classroom” Macmillan Publishers

Nicholas C. Burbules and Thomas A. Callister, Jr., "Knowledge at the crossroads: Alternative futures of hypertext environments for learning," Educational Theory, Vol. 46 No. 1 (1996a): 23-50.

Daniela Zalloccodzallocco@yahoo.com