COURZAL ACADEMY - Katarzyna DENIAU - part 3 by Rachel C

13th January - CATCH UP AND RESTART

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Objectives and Needs
Schedule
What has been happening

LINK WORDS

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Linking words help you connect ideas and sentences when you speak or write English. We can use linking words to give examples, add information, summarise, sequence information, give a reason or result, or to contrast ideas.

Here’s a list of the most common linking words and phrases:

IRREGULAR VERBS

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https://www.englishpage.com/irregularverbs/irregularverbs.html

VERB TENSE TABLE

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PREPOSITIONS

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Prepositions are used to show a relationship in space or time or a logical relationship between two or more people, places or things

examples of verbs followed by -ing (a gerund)

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adjectives + prepositions

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Everything you need to know about English Grammar

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LISTENING FOR SPEED

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Lessons to improve your listening. You can also learn something about the news.

to test your level

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level test from the British Council

ELLLO.ORG

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for listening activities, accents etc

BBC SOUNDS

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France24

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BBC LEARNING ENGLISH

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BBC 6-minute English

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RIVIERA RADIO

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TED.com

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Technical dictionary

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useful vocabulary websites

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https://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/vocabulary.php

CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY

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The Guardian newspaper

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contact details

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rachelmcharles@gmail.com
0630199867

Niveau/Analyse des besoins/objectif

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LEVEL :
expression oral: B1
expression et comprehension écrite (suite test de TOEIC e dec 202) : A2+

ANALYSES DES BESOINS
A besoin d'améliorer d'apprendre les tactiques pour apprendre le vocabulaire technique et comprendre les accents

A besoin de vocabulaire technique

A besoin de l'anglais pour:
Les réunions
Purchasing
Réunions
Compréhension à l'écoute
Expression orale

OBJECTIF
B1/B2

Timetable/schedule

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TO CANCEL LESSONS PLEASE SEND AN E-MAIL TO rachel.charles@courzal-academy.fr

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48 hours in advance for face to face (presentiel) lessons
and
24 hours in advance for remote lessons (distanciel)

ACCESS E-PLATFORM

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test de positionnement, analyses de besoins, feuilles d'émargements...

18/01 : Do a presentation

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your job, developments, and forecast

Presentation format

01/02 : Business — Presentations

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Watch authentic London office workers describe the ways to give effective presentations and the skills good presenters need.

01/02 : Presentations video

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01/02 video transcript

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pronouncing "th"

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20/01 : Synthetic presentation

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major information only

01/02 : tell me about the Quality Audit

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03/02 (or 22/02)

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exercise B onwards

01/02/2023 : Getting into phrasal verbs (niveau B1)

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Activity 1 : 5/7 (corrections OK)
Activity 2 : 4/6
Activity 3 : 3/6
Activity 4 : OK - good reflection on use of verbs in practice

B1 validé

24/02 and 01/03 : Checking progress

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WARNING: This is a very "business" lesson
Vocabulary and the situation of having a progress review. There is a dialogue between an employee and their manager during a reviewn and then 3 recordings of three people having a performance review.
https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/business-english/checking-progress/audioplayer/checking_progress_1_bemp3
https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/business-english/checking-progress/audioplayer/checking_progress_2_bemp3
https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/business-english/checking-progress/audioplayer/checking_progress_3_bemp3

Exercises focus on related vocabulary, pronunciation, listening and reading skills.

February and March : Supply Chain work

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Macmillan Dictionary

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March lessons : Cooking in Britain

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To learn or revise vocabulary relating to food, restaurants, tastes and textures
To develop reading and comprehension skills
To develop speaking skills/ discussing preferences and attitudes towards food and restaurants

March Lessons: give report of visit to Germany and Switzerland

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April /May Don’t hang up on customers!

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Topics :
customer service and support, customer satisfaction, communicating with customers, dealing with complaints

glossary Manufacturing Terms (technical vocab)

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May : How can the UK economy be reactivated from its apparent stagnation? 12/05 : exercise 3 onwards 17/05 : read article and do exercises

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This article discusses the UK economy’s stagnation and five ideas that might help to boost growth (upgrade skills, improve infrastructure, foster innovation, encourage investment, and use Net Zero as an opportunity for growth).

10/05/2023 Homework

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a. Imagine the writer’s experience of trying to contact a photography company in more detail.
b. You are going to write an email to the customer to respond to their complaint.

Make notes to…
• thank them for being a customer.
• apologise for what happened.
• ask for any details if necessary.
• say what action is being taken as a result. • offer something in compensation.
• apologise again and invite them to discuss it further.

c. Use your notes and some of the phrases below to write an email reply to the customer complaint.

Useful language : Thank you for your recent purchase / renewal / subscription / interest. It has been brought to our attention that … / I am sorry to learn that … On behalf of the company, I would like to apologise for … / I am truly sorry for the inconvenience caused. We value our customers / customers’ time and … We would be grateful if you could provide us with details about … I assure you that we take all customer feedback seriously. We are happy to offer … / refund you … If you would like to discuss this further, please reply to this message or call us at …

May 17th and 24th: REVOLUTIONARY 6G PROGRESS ANNOUNCED

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https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/general-english/revolutionary-6g-progress-announced/audioplayer/revolutionary_6g_bemp3

May 31st : vocabulary work

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3rd and 9th June : Read about the company that lets its customers set the prices of their products.

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June work

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Talking your way to success: accent bias in the workplace
Business topics: accent bias, discrimination, classism, equality in the workplace
Business language: equality in the workplace vocabulary, pronunciation

Activities: discussing accent bias, key words, understanding the text, business language, discussion, discussion and writing about action that should be taken to prevent discrimination in the workplace

14/06 : report writing exercise

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Use an internet search engine to find more information about fashion prices. Choose a piece of clothing you want, such as boots. Look for three items at three different prices: cheap, affordable, and expensive. Compare them. What’s the same? What’s different? Which would you buy

(exercises OK : score 12/20)
Need to increase vocabulary and extend phrases

Biritsh accents

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June and July work : The AI start-up erasing call-centre-worker accents: is it fighting bias – or perpetuating it?

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Does voice-altering software bridge the gap between the customer and the call-centre staff, or hide the diversity? Read and find out.
Skills: Reading, Speaking, Writing
Language focus: Vocabulary
The purpose of this activity is to introduce the idea of some words being different in varieties of the same language. Indian English, which is discussed in the article, tends to use British vocabulary, so Americans calling call centres in India may not understand these words

July work : Low cost air travel

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This lesson plan for business students is based around an original article fi rst published in Business Spotlight Issue 1/2014.
The article is about Southwest Airlines, the first US low-cost airline, and its business model.
The tasks in the student worksheet will help the students to understand the content of the article and the language used, particularly tricky pronunciation and prepositions. The worksheet also provides extra questions for discussion as well as a research task.

restart Friday 25th August @1.15pm

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the summer
what did you do?
In presentation form...

August: PROJECT MANAGEMENT

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This lesson looks at project management
- read an article on project management
- listen to two people discussing problems with projects.
Exercises focus on related vocabulary, reading and listening skills and offer the students an opportunity to discuss questions related to the topic as well as a roleplay situation.
https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/business-english/project-management/audioplayer/project_management_internationalmp3

September : How much sun...?

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The article explains the effects of UV rays from the sun and ways to protect yourself from their harmful effects.

September work : vocabulary work (comprehension oral)

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Productivity and the things that we can do to boost our own productivity.
Watch a video in which the speaker talks about ways he boosted his own productivity, and then look at the language from the video in detail.
https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/business-english/kicking-your-productivity-up-a-gear/videoplayer/productivity_be

There will be opportunities to personalise vocabulary and build fluency by sharing opinions on the topic.

30/06/2023 : review the present, past and present perfect tenses

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Do the exercises and check your answers
Answer key given

30/09/2023 : review the structures 'will + infinitive', 'going to + infinitive', 'used to + infinitive' and the past perfect tense.

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Do the exercises and check your answers
Answer key given
Good - level B1
Understanding of the future has improved, even it still needs work

October : Meetings (Meaningless meetings)

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Business topics: Productivity, meetings, corporate culture
Business language: Useful business vocabulary, phrases and expressions, language for participating in meetings Activities: Discussing meeting policy, key words, understanding the text, business language, discussion, participating in a meeting

Overview: This article discusses how several large companies are re-evaluating their meeting policies and drastically trying to free up more time for ‘actual’ work.

04/10 The Past perfect

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This worksheet presents the main uses of the past perfect tense as well as the difference between the past perfect and present perfect.

mark : 16/20 Very good!

11/10 : Past perfect 2

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This worksheet presents the main uses of the past perfect tense as well as the difference between the past perfect and present perfect.
https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/general-english/past-perfect-2/videoplayer/past-perfect-2-ex3*

More complicated to understand, needs some work. Struggled with the exercises

Productivity

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Productivity and the things that we can do to boost our own productivity.
watch a video in which the speaker talks about ways he boosted his own productivity, andthen look at the language from the video in detail.

There will be opportunities to personalise vocabulary and build fluency by sharing opinions on the topic.

Trial and Error

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Discussing experimentation and failure, key words, understanding the text, business language, discussion, critical thinking & problem solving (proposing a pilot)

November : MOTIVATION

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Look at ways unusual companies raise motivation and productivity in the office, including smells, treadmill desks and arcade machines.
Read an article on the topic and do some comprehension and vocabulary exercises on it.
Practise making cleft sentences to give emphasis.
Watch a video about what motivates employees, play a game to guess keywords and role-play a meeting to increase staff motivation.
https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/business-english/motivation/videoplayer/office_space_clip_be

Next lesson : 10th November at 2pm

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November lessons to finish: Artifical Intelligence

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"Hold on to your jobs, humans: The rise of the bots"

Useful business vocabulary, collocations, language for expressing strong opinions

CHECK KNOWLEDGE - countables and uncountables

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CHECK KNOWLEDGE : Quantifiers

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LINGUASKILL

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tell me how you are?

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just checking in ;)