Link to blog for my business students class

Here's the link:

http://feet-business09.blogspot.com/

Address to my 1st year Tourism students

Hi, everybody,

this is a mere post rather than an address, but, you know, it sounds much nicer to call it an "address" :-)

Well, the purpose of this post is to remind you that you can be part of a community of bloggers that is intended to revolve around the topics dealt with in our course Primer Idioma I - Inglés.

The volunteer piece of work consists in creating your own personal blog in English. Once you have created it, you need to post your answer to this post, and remember to include a link to your own newly created blog.

The contents you can write about, or "video about", can be any topic dealt with in class. For example, you can give a summary of the presentation that you gave in class on the touristic development of your local areas. Or record a video showing what you want: for example, a video of your participation in this year's Carnival, where in English you explain something about it. Then, if you upload it to YouTube, you can then include it in your post, as I did with a video I took in Botija (Cáceres province, Extremadura, Spain) of a nice little bird, a kingfisher, in this post: Botija Kingfisher (Martín Pescador, Alcedo Atthis) video.

Or you could have your say regarding the environmental threats looming over the natural heritage of Extremadura, particularly as future professionals of the tourist sector.

A sense of contributing to others could also encourage you to offer links to pages for learning English, finding jobs, good readings of English and Tourism, or any other links that are useful for you and you want to share as possibly useful for your classmates.

It will be interesting that you link the blogs or particular posts of other students in the posts to your own blogs, so that we can have a community around the main goal of using English in relation to our common interest in tourism.

This will all be taken into account when assessing your learning in our course.

Let's keep "blogged" up around one word you all now know how to pronounce, or do you?:

Tourism-Extremadura.

My own contribution to this community will be through my blog Extremadura Field Trips, which you alredy know about.

All the best,

Jesús

Field trips in Extremadura

My new blog on Nature: Field trips.

Have a look at my new blog on my breaks to paradise: the wild in Extremadura, Spain. I hope you enjoy what I love sharing.

Programa Idioma Empresarial 0809 - Jesús Montero

IDIOMA EMPRESARIAL I (INGLÉS) (2008-2009)

Departamento de Lengua Inglesa


Centro: Facultad de Estudios Empresariales y Turismo

Título de la asignatura: Idioma Empresarial I (Inglés)

Curso: 1º Empresariales
Grupos A (Mañana) y B (Tarde)
Carácter: Obligatoria
Temporalidad: 2º cuatrimestre
Créditos: 6
Profesores: Jesús Montero Melchor (Grupo A - II)
jmontero@unex.es

Temas de estudio:

1. Business English
2. Getting people to do things
3. Types of Business
4. E-Business: Selling Online
5. Working Together
6. Careers


En el desarrollo de cada tema se tratarán las cuatro destrezas tradicionales READING, WRITING, LISTENING, SPEAKING en el nivel intermedio. Es obligatorio adquirir el manual de textos y ejercicios Business English I en el servicio de reprografía de la Facultad de Empresariales.
Es sumamente importante la asistencia a clase para el desarrollo de los ejercicios y trabajos adicionales, que cuentan un tanto por ciento de la nota final que determina cada profesor. El examen escrito final se hace en junio y comprende una evaluación de lectura, escritura y comprensión oral, de acuerdo con las actividades y tareas llevadas a cabo a lo largo del cuatrimestre. Se parte de un nivel intermedio en el idioma, pero la incursión en el registro del inglés del mundo de la empresa conlleva un estudio más detallado de estructuras y vocabulario propios de ese campo. De ahí que sea muy importante asistir a las clases.


Objetivos:

El objetivo global es la preparación específica en inglés dirigido al mundo empresarial tanto en ámbitos académicos como profesionales.
Los objetivos concretos incluyen:

1. Reconocimiento, interpretación y evaluación de lenguaje oral y escrito
2. Adquisición de léxico y reconocimiento de registro oral y escrito
3. Localización de información detallada
4. Interpretación de información subyacente
5. Transformación de tipos de comunicación oral y escrita
6. Elaboración de diferentes tipos de comunicación oral y escrita

Evaluación:

Habrá un examen escrito final en junio y otro en septiembre que comprobará la superación del curso, y cubrirá las destrezas lingüísticas listening, reading y writing en contextos funcionales y comunicativos. La evaluación de la cuarta destreza speaking tendrá carácter continuo a la largo del curso, a través de debates organizados y / o presentaciones por grupos, parejas o individuales en cada uno de los temas y de la presentación oral de un proyecto en clase, para lo cual el alumno recibirá la correspondiente calificación.

Recomendaciones de estudio:
El alumno debe tener en cuenta que esta asignatura es de inglés para fines específicos del mundo de la empresa, lo cual implica textos escritos muy densos de vocabulario nuevo y expresiones orales que hay que controlar como pueden ser las relacionadas con los números y las operaciones matemáticas. Para aprender el inglés propio del mundo de la empresa, pues, es esencial cambiar de actitud ante la materia y afrontarla como una labor minuciosa que requiere esfuerzo continuado y tener como objetivo la comunicación y la comprensión tanto orales como escritas en esta lengua.
Además se recomiendo un diccionario actualizado bilingüe y el uso habitual de diccionarios especializados.

Tutorías:
Horario en período lectivo :
Lunes: 11-13
Martes: 13-13:30 & 19:30-21:00
Miércoles: 08:30-9:00 & 11:00-12:00
Viernes: 11-11:30
Horario en período no lectivo:
Martes & miércoles: 11-14:00

Bibliografía y enlaces:
Swan, M. and C. Walter. How English Works. Oxford, 1997.
Biber, D. et al. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. London, 1999.
James, G. Business English, A Corpus-based Approach. Hong Kong: HKUST, 1996.

Diccionario online gratuito: www.wordreference.com/es
Página para aprender y repasar inglés general: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
Página de para mejorar algunos aspectos del ingles oral de empresa: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/business/talkingbusiness/index.shtml

Enlaces y recursos de la página web del profesor: http://www.unex.es/feet/profesorado/Jesus/Resources%20for%20English.htm


Blog del profesor:
http://jesusmonteromelchor.blogspot.com/

Welcome to the Business English course students

This is to welcome my new students of idioma Empresarial I - Inglés who attend in the morning. Hi!, how are you?

I hope you are happy and that you have had a brilliant learning experience with your examination period.

The first thing I would like to tell you is that you can post any comments you like in English to this blog. Comments and suggestions on the lessons are particularly welcome.

To start, this is the course syllabus.

This is also a forum for this year's special volunteer work, which will consist in:

* you get a group (the larger the better, but you you can also get rid of people who do not share in the work of the group.

* The goal of the group will be two-fold:

** First, to create a blog of the group, preferably in English.

** Second, to use the blog regularly as a portfolio for the volunteer group presentation you will give to the rest of the class in May (3 or 4 minute oral participation per group member).

To create the blog, just follow the instruction in this page. It is a really simple three-step process. Once you have created the group's blog, post a link to it as an answer to this post.

In the blog you have to keep a record of:

* The group meetings (in the form of minutes for each group meeting; they must be agreed upon and signed by every member of the group and given conformity by the teacher after they've been voted; for each meeting there must be a secretary to take notes for doing the minutes; The secretarial post should rotate among the members of the work group; the first point in the agenda of each meeting will be to vote the previous minutes).
* The materials used for the preparation of the presentation (links, scanned material, etc.)
* The conceptual maps prepared on the topic of the presentation.
* The outline versions of the presentation.
* The videos or mp3 files with the rehearsals of the presentation.
* The final video of the presentation.

The topic will be free and should be agreed upon by the members of the group in the first meeting.

The group needs to agree on a group name, and have the blog linked in an answer to this post.

Any conceptual maps made by the teams that you consider valuable can also be included as a answer to this post and will be marked by the teacher as an extra volunteer work.

Good luck and good team work!