MY COMPANY - SWOT ANALYSIS

Choose a local company/factory/business (eg. a restaurant, hotel, shop, etc.).

Select from the following sentences those which are appropriate and write a paragraph about it.
The company I am going to present is.............. . It produces............../Its major activity is................Its headquarters are in................ and it has.................... branches and .............. employees. The annual turnover is................ There are............ products in range, such as..................... These are sold..................(all over the country/abroad). Its current projects include............... The company strengths are........................ Opportunities include............. Its weakness is ...........................Possible threats to this company could be.................
I have chosen to speak about this company because...............

HELLO FROM BARCELONA

Dear students, I am in Barcelona and can still be in contact to you. I have read all your comments so far (March 11th), therefore those which did not appear need a little improvement (please re-edit) Barcelona is very nice, there are many Erasmus students from all over the world here. I wish you were one of them soon! Teacher

Your task here: Describe the surroundings, guess the time of the day, weather, etc.

Talkgroup » CONVERSATION E-CLUB - What are you going to do next weekend?

What are you/your friend/s going to do tomorrow? Next weekend? Next summer? After graduating this university? You can alternatively talk about a trip you are planning to take. THIS IS A SPEAKING TASK! NO WRITTEN COMMENTS TO THIS POST! READ CAREFULLY TILL THE END. GO TO VOXOPOP (http://www.voxopop.com), create an account, find our talkgroup Conversation E-club, join the talk group and wait to be accepted by the administrator and then record your comments!



For example: At the end of April I’m going to Oxford. I’m going to attend a two-weeks course there. I’m going to fly there by Wizzair, which is a low cost company and land at Luton airport. I’m not sure yet how I will travel from Luton to Oxford. I will probably travel by coach. I’m going to stay with an English family, Huw and Clare Morgan who live in a quiet village near Oxford. If I have some spare time over the weekend I will visit Stratford or maybe the Lake District. I’m going to meet other teachers from all over the world. I’m not going to be a teacher there, finally! I’m going to be a student!

How about you?

PAY ATTENTION at the two ways in which you express future actions:
WILL (unplanned, unsure, prediction)
TO BE GOING TO (future plans - intentionez sa...)
With the verbs 'come' and 'go' use: I am going to... Bucharest, he's coming back tomorrow

Go to this talkgroup and record your answers. I will give you instructions in class and on the YG about how to use Voxopop: Conversation E-Club

What's going on?

Think about a specific place/event in this world and describe what's happening. Use Present Continuous mostly. The other students will have to guess the place/event.

Eg. "He is wearing a black tuxedo with a red carnation and a bow tie and is holding her hand. She's wearing a long, white gown and is smiling because she's very happy. Relatives and friends are throwing rice. Some people are going to make speeches and everyone is going to dance, have cocktails and dinner". - A wedding.

STARTING 2nd SEMESTER

Welcome to the 2nd semester with our Class Blog.
This semester you can also continue commenting on different posts.
However, and this is VERY IMPORTANT, YOU CAN ONLY WORK THROUGHOUT THE SEMESTER. Comments posted in the last week for all the tasks will not be accepted!

So, try to do your best to be in time with the tasks!
And to break the ice, here is a short video:



Guess what's the problem? Do you know some similar examples in the English language?

DEADLINE FOR BLOG ACTIVITIES: January 18th AND EVALUATION

Dear Bloggers,
the deadline for completing your class blog activities is January 18th.
Regretfully, activities completed after that date will not be considered.
Please make sure to have at least 7 tasks finished.

In order to be able to evaluate your blog activity, I need to know who is behind the username, WHO YOU ACTUALLY ARE. Therefore, I have created a database in our Yahoo group where you can also self-evaluate your activity.
To do so, follow the steps:
1. Go to: http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/EnglishDL
SIGN IN (if you are a member, if not, join the group)
2. Go to the DATABASE (left side menu), CONTACT LIST, and ADD RECORD. There you will see that you have to fill in your real name and your username on the blog, the number of tasks you have completed and your email address.

Let me know by email or by commenting on this post - if you have any problems,
Teacher

JOB INTERVIEW 2

Here is a revision of job interview questions and answers:
NO 1 is for more beginning students and
No 2 is for more advanced students.

Pick up one aspect about job interviews that remains in your mind after watching one of the above.