Calling all coffeeholics……
22nd July 2008Macmillan have just published the latest business English e-lesson, called ‘The future of Starbucks’. Enjoy it!
te4be Newsletter
20th July 2008
Barney and I are delighted to say we have just sent out our second Newsletter. If you are subscribed, and have not received it, please check your spam mail. Drop us a mail if it has not arrived so we can re-send!
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Macmillan on YouTube
17th July 2008Some interesting videos here - including Adrian Underhill on pronunciation, plus videos with Scott Thornbury and Michael Hoey.
Reviews in brief - EL Gazette
14th July 2008The CD-ROM (Science - Macmillan Vocabulary Practice Series by Keith Kelly; Macmillan) is of tremendous value, allowing users to listen to the pronunciation of words and providing exciting mind-mapping software, as well as animations.
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To read the complete review, as well as the other ‘Reviews in brief’, see this month’s EL Gazette.
Latest business English e-lesson
13th July 2008Macmillan have just uploaded the latest e-lesson called ‘You’re fired!’. It is about the winner of the TV show ‘The Apprentice’ and focuses on being ‘economical with the truth’ at a job interview. Enjoy!
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Online listening for the oil industry
3rd July 2008
BP’s 2007 annual report, which can be downloaded as a PDF from their website is accompanied by a set of downloadable MP3 recordings of the parts of the report.
Although these are, no doubt, intended as an aid to BP investors who, for whatever reason, are unable to read the text, they are also a boon to any business English teacher working with intermediate level students from the oil industry.
This is the case with my colleague Simon Cook who drew my attention to them and has been using both recordings and text with one of his students.
Interactive whiteboards: support site
3rd July 2008Neil Ballantyne has devleoped a website which may be of interest to anyone who uses Promethean interactive whiteboards, or wants training on Activstudio software. It includes tutorials to help learn how to develop IWB content, plus an overview of the main tools of Activstudio.Â
mp3 audio - readers
1st July 2008Congrats to James Schofield on his two new readers for Summertown, entitled ‘Peril in Venice’ and ‘Ekaterina’.
The CD contains the mp3 audio file of the whole text to download and listen to on a computer, or copy to an mp3 player.
Enjoy!
Review - Blended Learning
25th June 2008Just stumbled across this review of our book on the English Teaching Professional site.
‘….should be a recommended buy for teachers and planners wanting to know more about what new technologies can offer’
Thanks to Viv.
Euro 2008
24th June 2008Are you or your students following Euro 2008? If so, you should download the latest e-lesson from Macmillan, entitled ‘The football prima donnas’.
It’s about football salaries - are they justified? To download the lesson, just visit the Macmillan business English website. There’s no penalty for saving the lesson.
Digital literacies - NATESOL Manchester
19th June 2008It was great to meet everyone last weekend
I will post up the workshop handout next week.
In the meantime, here is the Word version of the Handout if anyone wishes to customise it.
Do mail me with any suggestions to add, subject to editorial discretion.
Pete
BESIG Business Issues
16th June 2008The Learning Technologies page
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The Learning Technologies page looks at a number of websites of interest to ESP practitioners. It then focus on ‘Business Meetings’, the latest disc in a series of business English CD-ROMs from York Associates International and finishes with a brief round-up of news.
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To read the complete article by Pete and Barney, see the latest issue of BESIG Issues. For more information on the newsletter, visit the BESIG website.
The one-minute entrepreneur
13th June 2008Are your shelves groaning with unread management self-help books? Do you have a minute to download the latest e-lesson from Macmillan?
Enjoy it - if you have time!
Electronic Dictionaries - review
5th June 2008Thanks to Guy Jackson for sending over this very interesting review of electronic dictionaries.
The dictionaries reviewed here are CALD, Collins COBUILD, MED2, LDOCE and OAL Compass. The review appeared in Language Learning & Technology last Februray and is by Alfonso Rizo-Rodriguez of the University of Jaen.Â
Blended Learning course - Israel
1st June 2008It was great to do this course last week, and to meet the participants.
If you wish to download the Universal podcast worksheet which was mentioned, just click on the link.
Good luck to all participants and all success for the future!
Lesson share
29th May 2008The latest business English e-lesson from Macmillan is now available. It is called ‘Boiler rooms’ and is about a share-buying scam.
Enjoy!
CALL Newsletter - Spring 2008
23rd May 2008The latest CALL Newsletter has just been uploaded to the Learning Technologies SIG website.
It’s a cracking issue, even though I say so myself (showing editorial unbias) with articles on: Second Life / InfoQuests / video and new media / YouTube / Camtasia / wikis, an interview and book review…
Enjoy!
Have you been Facebooked recently?
16th May 2008The latest business English e-lesson from Macmillan is on social networking and business etiquette: what do you do if your boss invites you to join his or her Facebook site?
Download the lesson now - unless you want me to write on your wall…….
New Pecha Kucha website
15th May 2008Lindsay Clanfield has just started a new website dedicated to this style of presentation. Worth a visit if you didn’t see the exhilarating event at this year’s IATEFL conference in Exeter. You now have just six minutes and 40 seconds to enjoy Lindsay’s site…
Early bird - Blended Learning course, Markdorf
14th May 2008There’s still time to benefit from the early bird registration fee for the next Blended Learning course!