August 25th
Listening Exercise
Listening Exercise
Today we will be working on an interesting speech given by Steve Jobs at Stanford University.
1. Watch the first part of the video ('39) and answer these questions:
- Where did Steve Jobs complete his college education?
- What was his occupation?
- He said his speech was about...
2. Look up these words in a monolingual dictionary:
Vocabulary strategy: Put the words and their definitions on individual cards. Include a sample sentence that illustrates how the word may be used in context.
verbs
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nouns
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adjectives
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drop out
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put out
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tuition
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awful
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drop in
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release
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loss
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well-worn
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find out
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stumble into
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baton
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foolish
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figure out
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clear out
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brick
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lead off
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get fired
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commencement
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work out
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quit
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embarrassment
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turn out
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relent
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subtle
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screw up
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spend
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trap (n)
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button up
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settle
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drown out
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free (v)
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look forward
look backward |
trap (v)
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come back
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dawn on (v)
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Vocabulary strategy: Put the words and their definitions on individual cards. Include a sample sentence that illustrates how the word may be used in context.
Grammar
Practice
http://www.eslgo.com/quizzes/vocabulary/phrasal-verbs.html
2. Watch the whole video and answer more questions.
First story: Connecting dots
What did his biological mother want for him?
Who ended up adopting him?
What happened when he started college?
Steve Jobs decided to drop out of college, why did he say it was the best decision he has ever made?
What did he have to do when he was in college?
How did the calligraphy class have an impact in his career?
What did he want to say when speaking about connecting points?
Second story: Love and Lost
How old was he when he started Apple?
Why was he fired from his own company?
What did he do after being fired from Apple?
What did he say about work?
Third story: death
What did he think of death?
Discussion: Personal opinion
1. Have you ever made important decisions that have changed your life? which one?
2. How would your life be different if you had never dropped in the university?
3. If you had the chance to study a different language, which language would you study?
4. If you had the opportunity to drop in on different courses, which courses would you drop in?
Homework September 1st: Click HERE and watch a video about how a Google intern's first week is and answer some questions.
Homework September 1st: Click HERE and watch a video about how a Google intern's first week is and answer some questions.
Activity designed by Deisa Gómez and Alejandra Jiménez
September 1st
Let's learn more about a Sunroof Project:
September 3rd
In this lesson we are going to learn about the crucial role of recruitment and selection.
Pre-Listening
What do you think are the most important stages of the process of selecting and recruiting job candidates?
Audio: HR_Selection&Recruitment
Listening Comprehension
Listen to the dialogue and decide whether these statements are true (T) or false (F).
1. Nowadays, companies only advertise jobs on websites and only accept job applications online.
2. Companies that advertise jobs and manage recruitment on their own websites tend to be the bigger ones.
3. Companies only use recruitment agents to advertise jobs.
4. When recruitment agents manage the process of recruitment on behalf of a company, they do so independently of the company’s HR department.
5. Nowadays, companies sometimes place advertisements simply to attract good candidates, rather than to advertise a specific job.
6. In the past, job interviews tended to be less organized and pre-planned than they are now.
7. Psychometric tests separately assess both a candidate’s ability to do the job and whether their personality is right for the job.
Listening for detail
Level: Intermediate
Read the questions below. Then, listen to the recording again and answer them.
1. What sorts of publications did job advertisements use to be placed in twenty years ago?
2. What term does the speaker use to describe the website page where recruitment agencies advertise jobs?
3. What kind of information is included in an advert nowadays?
4. What is a personnel specification?
5. How have job interviews changed these days?
Level: Low- Intermediate
Read the questions below. Then, listen to the recording again while reading the trasncription and answer the questions.
Transcription: HR_Selection&Recruitment
1. What sorts of publications did job advertisements use to be placed in twenty years ago?
2. What term does the speaker use to describe the website page where recruitment agencies advertise jobs?
3. What kind of information is included in an advert nowadays?
4. What is a personnel specification?
5. How have job interviews changed these days?
Adapted from: www.onestopenglish.com (for educational purposes)
Homework September 8th: In order to know more about your chosen company research abou it and answer these questions:
Title of company
Where is it located?
Who are its founders?
How many employees are there?
What is its mission and vision?
What are the advantages of working there?
September 8th
Company History
Complete the
following article with either the present perfect or past simple tense of the
verbs below.
begin
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lead
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increase
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exceed
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do
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grow
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choose
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found
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always pay
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set up
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MUCH MORE
THAN ORAL HEALTH
William Colgate________________the
Colgate Company in 1806 as a starch, soap and candle business in New York City.
For the first one hundred years, the company
___________ all its business in the United States. However, in the early
1900s, the company______________ an
aggressive expansion programme that ____________ to the establishment of Colgate operations
in countries throughout Europe, Latin America and the Far East. Recently it
_______________operations in Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and China.
Their main
sector of business is Oral Care and, in this area, Colgate-Palmolive is the
world leader in toothpaste. Since 1980, the company ______________ its share of this market by more than 12% to
over 40% today. Oral care revenues ________________ significantly in recent years and in 1991 they _______________ $ 1.3 billion.
The company
______________________ close attention
to the environment. In 1990 the American Council on Economic Priorities _______________________ them as one of the four most socially
responsible companies in the United States.
Adapted from: http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omcompany/day01/answergrammar.htm (for educational purposes)
Grammar: Present Perfect vs Simple Past 1
How to write your description?
September 10th
Grammar Review
Read this text about the Old Colonel. Then complete it with either the present perfect or past simple tense of the verbs in parenthesis.
I think I ___________(have) a very interesting life. I'm 73 now and I don't work anymore. I ____________(be) in the army for 51 years. I __________(retire) when I was 69. I ____________(visit) to so many countries that I can't remember all of them. I _____________(be) to Australia six or seven times and to South Africa three times.
Homework September 15: Please study this tutorial about cover letters and take notes.
Tutorial: http://archive-ca.com/page/957127/2012-12-14/http://www.thewclc.ca/edge/issue3/coverletter/coverletter.html
September 15th
September 15th
Punctuation Exercise
Put in periods, commas, quotation marks, apostrophe, and parentheses where ever they are needed in the following paragraph. Check also the use of capital letters.
bmw Bavarian Motor Works in english is a german car motorbike and engine maker it is well known for its high quality luxury vehicles its website states the bmw group has its sights set firmly on the premium sector of the international automobile market the company has its roots in aircraft engines its blue and white logo signifies an airplane propeller cutting through a blue sky it moved to the production of motorbikes after world war I, and automobiles in 1928 the bmw group produces almost 1.5 million cars and 90,000 motorbikes a year the companys current slogan is Joy is bmw.
Retrieved from: http://www.businessenglishmaterials.com/bmw.html#ixzz3lKYmatNh
Under Creative Commons License: Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives
Cover Letter Exercise
Audio
Cover Letter Exercise
Audio
September 17th
Today we will be writing our own cover letters to apply for an intership in the company selected.
1. Open your email and access your drive.
2. Click on "Compartidos Conmigo" and open the folder COVER_LETTERS_8.
3. Once you are in the folder, create a google doc to write your cover letter.
4. Name your file with your full name.
Strategies
- Remember to include all the parts of a cover letter: Cover Letter
- Use models to guide your own writing: Model
- Proof-read your text in order to find errors.
- Check your punctuation and use of capital letters.
Homework September 22nd: Answer these questions about your personal plan of work (on your notebook):
How many hours a week have you been working to achieve your objectives?
What activities have you done?
What have you learned? Have you achieved your objectives? Why? Why not?
How many hours a week have you been working to achieve your objectives?
What activities have you done?
What have you learned? Have you achieved your objectives? Why? Why not?
September 22nd
Today we will be proofreading our own cover letters to apply for an intership in the company selected.
1. Open your email and access your drive.
2. Click on "Compartidos Conmigo" and open the folder COVER_LETTERS_10.
3. Open your cover letter and use this checklist to proofread it with a classmate:
4. Improve your cover letter according to your classmate's comments.
Taken from: Evans, V & Dooley, J.
Prime Time 3. Express Publishing. 2010 (for educational purposes)
4. Improve your cover letter according to your classmate's comments.
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