Purpose and Procedure: the teacher asks 6 questions to the students. The students answer and interpret questions to find out what they are like. The setting is an office.
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A walk through the office. Personality Test
Purpose and Procedure: the teacher asks 6 questions to the students. The students answer and interpret questions to find out what they are like. The setting is an office.
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Business card exchange etiquette. Video and quiz
Instructions
Purpose: students watch a video about etiquette of exchanging business cards and answer some questions about the video.
Level: The video is easy to understand if the students have gone over the questions previously. This is a good task to do after students have role played business card exchanges. (If you want to see this ROLE PLAY, click HERE). Encourage students to look at the images as the gesticulation of the host really helps to understand some of the questions.
Materials:
a) provided video to show to the students (provided underneath)
b) set of questions (provided underneath)
c) projector.
Click HERE to download both the QUESTIONS and the VIDEO.Note: These questions were written by Michael Stout for ESL Video Quiz
Business Card Role Play
Click HERE to download both the teacher's instructions and the PowerPoint.
Underneath you can PREVIEW the Business Card PowerPoint
Instructions
Purpose: students role-play a business card exchange. They learn how to be polite by commenting on the card that is given to them.Extension: students can watch a video about exchanging business cards. See task (video + set of questions) HERE
Level: students need to know how to say basic sentences about the design or content of a business card. The sentences can be only in the present simple. Students are given model sentences that they can use later when they practice the card exchange.
Examples of model sentences in the exercise: This here is very original! / One colour on each side. I really like the combination/ I really like the logotype!!/ So your company is in Leeds. Are you from there? /
Materials:
a) provided PowerPoint to show to the students (provided underneath)
b) teacher’s instructions (provided underneath)
c) projector
Procedure:
Part 1) the teacher uses the overhead projector to show students the provided PowerPoint. Students need to decide if the comment under each business card relates to content or to design.
Then the students need to write their own comment for some provided business cards.
Teachers can preview the PowerPoint on the blog before downloading it.See underneath
Part 2) students create their own cards and role play a business card situation. Students need to add a comment on the content or on the design of the business card they receive. Students can create the business card on paper or use a provided page for designing cards (see teacher’s instructions) Click HERE to download both the teacher's instructions and the PowerPoint.
Here you can PREVIEW the Business Card PowerPoint
The Origins of Small Talk
THE ORIGINS OF SMALL TALK
A Hat Trick production for the BBC
(provided underneath, 2 minutes 30 seconds)
A Hat Trick production for the BBC
(provided underneath, 2 minutes 30 seconds)
To DOWNLOAD the video and the teacher’s pack, click HERE. No password needed
Instructions
This video portrays 3 cavemen waiting for a mammoth. As they wait, they try to strike up a conversation. This is video is related to a set of tasks that will help students to learn how to fill in awkward silences when talking to strangers.Level: lower intermediate and upper
Language items: students practice asking "small talk" questions by transforming the cavemen conversation into a 21st century office dialogue.
To DOWNLOAD the video and the teacher’s pack, click HERE. No password needed
Materials:
a) provided Teachers' Pack which contains: pre-listening + while listening + post-listening tasks as well as an answer sheet for teachers.
b) video. The video has been downloaded from youtube and has been created by Hat Trick productions for the BBC.
How to watch the video:
Possibility 1: download the video to your USB pen and view it in your class. This video has MP4 format. Make sure your Real Player, VLC or other programmes that you use to watch videos have been upgraded. The link to donwload these files is provided below.
Possibility 2: if you have internet connection in your classroom, go to mariavocationaltraining video site by clicking HERE and watch the video online.
To DOWNLOAD the video and the teacher’s pack, click HERE. No password needed
Feel free to browse through other vocational training videos in this section
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