The Business Spotlight Teachers' Group

Teaching English via the Business Spotlight blend

A community for teachers of business English to learn how to develop courses using Business Spotlight resources.

Business Spotlight Website

www.business-spotlight.de

Business Spotlight Workshops

Elevator pitch

Dialogin conference: Global Leadership Competence

BESIG Conference 2011

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  • Alf-Thorsten Hausmann
  • racquel dalling
  • Helen Strong
  • Deborah Capras
  • Mira Wirsz
  • Vicki Steinfeld
  • Cornelia Kreis-Meyer
  • Nelly Thomas
  • Sandra Burgemeister
  • Johanna Furgoll
  • Pauline Albers-Mitchell
  • Gisela Kirsten
  • Panchali Singh
  • Monika Zerche
  • Reshmi Ani

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A detailed lesson plan for "citizen scientists"

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A detailed lesson plan for "citizen scientists"

What do your students enjoy doing in their free time? Birdwatching? Stargazing? Solving word puzzles? Playing computer games? With hobbies such as these, they could be contributing to scientific understanding — as a “citizen scientist.” Carol Scheunemann focuses on this topic in Business Spotlight 1/2012, and Karen Richardson has created a detailed lesson plan based on Carol's article for use with intermediate students.Download the lesson plan, which includes teachers' notes and worksheets for…See More
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Hello Karin, Welcome to The Business Spotlight Teachers' Group. We hope you find our tips and ideas useful in your business English teaching. Are you currently using Business Spotlight in your teaching? Best wishes, Helen
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Here you will have the chance to discover how Business Spotlight can help you to create and to develop your business English courses.

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A detailed lesson plan for "citizen scientists"

What do your students enjoy doing in their free time? Birdwatching? Stargazing? Solving word puzzles? Playing computer games? With hobbies such as these, they could be contributing to scientific understanding — as a “citizen scientist.” Carol…

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Posted by Deborah Capras on January 27, 2012 at 9:00am

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Trainer guidelines for using the Business Spotlight short stories

by James Schofield, author of the short stories in Business Spotlight

Research shows that repeated reading of the same text can really help students assimilate language. The trick is to get them to do it without boring them rigid.…

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Posted by Deborah Capras on December 1, 2011 at 2:34pm — 4 Comments

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Dramatic changes in the business world mean new challenges for trainers and learners 53 Replies

Business English trainingIan Badger is a partner in Business and Medical English Services (www.bmes.co.uk) and a business English consultant and trainer to major firms. In his article “At the crossroads”,…Continue

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Teaching listening skills 20 Replies

I'd like to open a discussion here to invite your views on the importance of training listening skills with business English learners. These are my thoughts:In a recent…Continue

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On and on

I try my best in this blog to concentrate on economic and financial issues and to keep my nose out of linguistic ones. This past week, however, I feel like I have been pursued by one word and that I need to write about it. 
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Action learning

When the Titanic sank in 1912, action learning was discovered. While enormously popular in countries like the UK, this method has not really taken off in Germany; almost all of the literature about it is in English.

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BlackBerry jam

Research in Motion, the company that created the BlackBerry, has had a lot of damaging publicity in recent years. BlackBerry is no longer flavour of the month. It’s in a bit of a jam.
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