BUSINESS ENGLISH FOUNDATIONS 2TUTORING 1MARTHA MENDEZ B.2014

GENERAL ISSUES TELL ME MORE: To reinforce the communicative competencies related to an elementary level in daily life as well as in business contexts.

You will be given a username and a password to start working in the Tell me more platforms. If you do not get it, you have to write an email to mariae.salcedo@correo.ean.edu.co explaining the situation (write your full name, your ID number and your tutor´s name).11% of your final grade.

Competencies

COMPANIES , SALES, AND PEOPLEGuideline 1

Purpose:To know important qualities inside a company, discuss ideas about sales strategies and to express events in the past. COMPETENCIES:Describing company colleagues, describing a product and a company profile. Being able to to understand, report and interpret information by listening, to comprehend information by reading texts, to contextualize information and to express ideas in oral and written way in business contexts applying appropriate grammar elements.

ACTVITIESActividad 1. Presenting a product.

Actividad 2. Describing people.

Actividad 3. Project. (FIRST STEP)

Presenting a productTo apply English language elements to describe products using adjectives and past tense. Product:An email and an oral presentation of a product uploaded at www.youtube.com.(Open a channel) A summary(biography)

Remember: Word document with the email

describing a product and the draft of the product presentation sent through the virtual room. Include the link of your oral presentation done in www. youtube.com and the learning check guideline.

2. Describing peopleProduct: A summary based on a reading.Search a biography based on a famous entrepreneur and write a summary of his/her life. Include important facts and explain why you consider him/her important. Submit it and publish it in your portfolio including his/her picture.

Activity 3 PROJECT: INFOGRAPHICSThe project will be done in 4 steps, each one with a submission in each learning guide.

First step: Mind map and Chart

See instructions.

Practice READING SKILLSFactsFacts are statements that can be proven.

Facts may be true or false.But facts can be proven.

Examples1. Statistically, women live longer than men.2. Most buses weigh more than most cars. 3. There are ten inches in a foot (false).

BIOGRAPHY:http://mrnussbaum.com/benstory/

GRAMMAR PAST: http://www.bradleys-english-school.com/online/matchingpairs/mpiregpast5.html

http://www.montsemorales.com/gramatica/PastSimpAffIrregSw2-4.htm

Conversation

Where did you grow up? Do you have any pets? Do you have any siblings? Do you know what your your name means? What type of phone do you have? What did you do this past weekend? What are your plans for this weekend? What do you like to do in your spare time? What is the first thing you do when you wake up? What is the last thing you do before you go to sleep? What is your middle name? What was the last thing you purchased? What is your favorite holiday? What is your favorite day of the week?