Vocabulary for Logistics. Letter B

Aim: students of transport logistics match words and their definitions.

Flip chart Activstudio Promethean  Example

Suggested procedure: provide students with the words and ask them to define them or try to define them. Most students will guess the meaning of the words. Don't tell your students whether their definitions are correct. Then give them the matching task and give the students the opportunity to compare their guesses with the dictionary definition.

Words included in this task (all B- words) : Bespoke, Benchmarking,Back Order,Batch Number ,Bill of Lading (BOL), Backlog Customer,  Barge, Bar Code,  Bill of Lading - Through, Boxcar,  Bill of Material (BOM), Break-Bulk, Buffer Stock


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Word Version Example

Materials: 

• Possibility 1: Word document with shuffled words and definitions to photocopy  + key for the teacher 
• Possibiliy 2/ Promethean flipchart:  
• A) Active studio Promethean flip chart to project in class. Students can come to the whiteboard and move definitions around. 
•  B) With the flip chart, you may also use the  "spotlight" or "revealer"  tools to cover the definitions allowing the students to see the words. Students  define a word while their  classmates guess the word that is being defined.  Then, you all read the  given definition and compare students' definitions with the dictionary definition.
• Also I provide you with a list of all of the words (from A to Z). This list has been compiled by Kate Vitasek

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