Unit 1 Company Book Two Successful English for Vocational Colleges Series.

Unit 1 Company

Book Two

Successful English for Vocational Colleges

Series

CONTENTS

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Objectives

Teaching Methods

Notes

Teaching Procedures

Teaching Materials and Students

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Materials & Students

Book 2Students

• Background

• Up-to-date

• Contents

• Basis

• New term

• Associate

Grammar

• Tenses

• Voices

Skills • Receiving

• Introducing

• Instructing

• Writing

Topic-themed• Company

• Volvo,

Apple

• Production

Objectives: clear-cut

Communicative

• Strategie

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Tasks• Progressive

Teaching Methods

Content• Career

• language

Teaching Procedure• Lead-in• Inventions in Focus• To suit our needs, we get to ask the right

question. • Matching statements to pictures (pair work)• Introducing some awesome inventions• To get students to see how inventions help cope

with problems and make life easier or smart. • Introducing Quirky, a company which makes

inventions possible and materialized, thus leading students to the story.

People & Issues • Tasks • A timeline• A quick way to get students to learn about the

story.• Easy to handle; mission accomplished for

weaker students—a sense of achievement in the first unit.

• Make it a bit tricky. Find the times and get them in the right order.

• Pictures of the founders of Volvo

• Direct link to the people behind the story.

• A quote on the founders’ idea about Volvo. • Link it with the passage.

• Exercise on numbers.

• Suggested exercise from the teachers’ manual.

• Numbers are easy to find and used to mean something.

• A good exercise to build student’s ability to explain graphs or tables.

Detailed reading:Read again and find out

• Focus on reading skills

• Skimming and scanning• Locate info within the shortest possible time

• The questions show gradual difficulty. To each his own.

• General understanding

Detailed reading• Issue: Is Volvo Swedish, American or Chinese?

• Ownership of Volvo

• Jargon and business words

• Designed to let Ss understand jargon or business words that they are normally not familiar with. (pictures)

• Word exercise to reinforce what they’ve learned.

• Sentence structures

• Translation exercise• Examples • Ss get to ask and translate for each other.

• Grammar: voice• Passive voice (teachers’ manual)

Speaking

• Simulated

Listening

Focus

• listening material • speaking practice

• Input from reading• Listening: an extension of the story• Learn about Volvo• Learn how to pick up a client

• Output: speaking• Simulated speaking exercise, using sentences

from the listening piece.

• Factory tour• Reduce the dialogue to the minimum to get

Ss to reproduce.

Writing

• Correspondence between partners.

• A business letter

• Layout

• Recognise and practise. • Have a go.

• Listening & Speaking

• Talking about yourself and your company.

• A business travel. Make small talk.

Personal View

• Draw up study plans

• Self-study

Assignment

• Text reproduction • Forms may vary from field tour to marketing

campaign.

• Corporate structure/culture

• Corporate titles

Monitor and Assess• Partners • Group members • Teacher

• Assessment: Formative & Summative • Presentations• Speeches • Conversations • Posters • Dictations; bi-weekly/monthly quiz

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