Resources on this Website

Multimedia Resources

• Video Resources
  Our video & MP3 material
• Listening Resources
  Including how to introduce yourself effectively and business news.
• Business Software Applications Pairs Game (2.82MB SWF)
  A pairs game to help students learn about applications and their relevant icons. Useful as part of an ICT lesson, MIS or computer familiarisation lesson and fun for the rest of us.
  
  

Business Presentations

PowerPoint Guide Our guide to getting the most from PowerPoint Impress Our guide to getting the most from the free presentation software Impress Resources Downloadable presentation resources

Business Documents

Business writing Our in-depth guide to Writing Business documents Business Report Writing Our complete guide to report Writing. Referencing system Reference your sources properly for reports

Meeting Skills

• Sound Scripting
  Make your speeches and presentations more natural.
  
  
• Pronunciation
  Our Pronunciation guide is a great place to start work on accent neutralisation.
  
  
• Business Meeting Prompts & Lesson Idea (128KB PDF)
  A project meeting lesson with prompts for participants and roles, optionally the can be done in the style of Donald Trump's The Apprentice.
  
  
• Tourism Project Meeting prompts (264KB PDF)
  Cue cards to encourage speaking and roleplay in a meeting context.
  
  
• Respond To Change (228KB PDF)
  Lesson idea for managing Change.

Other Business Skills

• Speed Reading
  How to improve your reading speed.
  
  
• Mindmaps
  How to use mindmaps effectively
  
  
• Computer Application Software Worksheet (224KB PDF)
  Helps students to understand the software on a PC and what it is used for.
  
  
• Terrible Survey (279KB PDF)
  An example of a survey that has gone terribly wrong. Designed to encourage students to think about bias, leading questions and vocabulary choice.
  
• Business Departments (60KB PDF)
  Business department summary sheet with comprehension questions
  
  
• Spoken-Phonetic alphabet (52KB PDF)
  Used by the military, pilots and tele-operators throughout the world. (Not to be confused with IPA)
  
  
• Describing Graphs (79KB PDF)
  An exercise to help students build vocabulary related to graphs.
  
  
• House Plan (216KB PDF)
  A nice warmer for a negotiation workshop. i.e. They have to fight over who gets the master bedroom.
  
  
• Dress Codes (317 KB PDF)
  Complete Lesson plan with Matching cards and exercises to assist students understanding of dress codes.
  
• How Do You Like To Learn? (52KB PDF)
  Survey to encourage trainee centred learning.

Webmerise Case study

Webmerise was a small Internet design company, here is some of the sales literature that they produced:

• Advertise with Us (28KB PDF)
  A sample flyer for use in lessons
• Full Page leaflet (132KB PDF)
  Advertising Webdesign services
• White Paper (64KB PDF)
  9 page whitepaper discussing the role of the Internet