Unit 1 Company Book Two Successful English for Vocational Colleges Series

CONTENTS Objectives Teaching Methods Notes Teaching Procedures Teaching Materials and Students 05 04

Materials & Students Book 2 Students 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 Strategies 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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