All Business / ESP articles – Page 15
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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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Teaching toolBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 7—Networking and small talk
In this lesson, students talk about how to initiate and continue small talk and learn the 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.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: MOOCs: A rising tide
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the rising popularity of MOOCs and covers strategies for looking at the pronunciation of acronyms.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: When eBay bought Skype
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about eBay’s acquisition of Skype. Teacher’s notes cover strategies for looking at the detail of written language.
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Business Basics: Entertaining a business visitor
In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise language for entertaining a business visitor. Exercises include: completing emails with the correct vocabulary, listening to a phone call, writing an itinerary, and role-playing questions and answers.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Quiet, please
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about being an introvert in, what can sometimes seem like, an extrovert’s world.
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ArticleBusiness Basics: Socializing with clients
In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise small talk about weather, hotels and travel. Exercises include: revising small talk vocabulary, ordering words to make questions, listening to small talk conversations in a business scenario and role-playing.
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Business Basics: Greeting a visitor
In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise greeting a visitor. Exercises include: completing a gap-fill, listening to a conversation, putting the stages of greeting a visitor into the correct order and devising a welcoming procedure.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Low-cost air travel
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the emergence of low-cost travel and South West Airlines.
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LessonMacmillan Life Skills: Get Organised – Opening a hotel
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students must work with a partner to open a new hotel.
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Business Basics: Asking for help around the office
In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise asking for help around the office. Exercises include: completing questions that ask for specific help, matching questions to answers and a role-play where students must ask the correct questions to get help.