keep your listeners enthralled or they might fall asleep

Answers to exercises in unit 2

Here are the answers to the exercises from unit 2 that we did not do in lecture time. They are from pages 18-20.
Unit 3 to follow.....

video links

Here are the links to the videos we watched about Heathrow's T5.

Harrods degree

How does this compare to what you are doing at the DHBW?

Oxford ... Cambridge ... Harrods? London store to offer BA honours degree in sales

British accents and dialects

This one is also very nice and slightly more academic.....

http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/

21 accents

Have a listen to Amy Walker saying the same thing in 21 different accents (luckily she tells us where each accent is from).

Advice on PowerPoint

Dodging Bullets in Presentations

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answers to your homestudy tasks

Page 10 'To merge or not to merge'
2. portfolios
3. acquire
4. targets
5. chances
6. fortunes
7. shareholder value
8. failure

Page 11.
Language check 1
1b 2e 3a 4d 5c

Language check 2
a pres cont
b pres perf
c past perf
d pres simp
e future (passive)

Language check 3
1 past per
2 future pass
3 pres perf
4 pres simp
5 pres cont

practice
2 has been
3 has accepted
4 will become
5 had not wanted / didn't want
6 has made
7 do not get
8 are becoming
9 will cost
10 will see

online translation help and a good learners' dictionary

As mentioned, there is a lot of good translation and dictionary help available for free online.
If you don't already know them it is worth trying out these websites. Most have free iphone aps too.

Linguee


LEO

Beolingus

Macmillan (mono-lingual) dictionaty for advanced learners

Intelligent Business course book glossary and mini dictionary

A one page = one unit glossary is downloadble here.

and a mini dictionary is downloadable here.

First post

Dear students,
Welcome to your English blog.

I have set up this blog to accompany us through your English lessons over the next 3 years. Every now and then (hopefully regularly) I will be adding new information so make sure you visit the blog before and/or after our lessons. Please bookmark it!

I will also try to add links and information from our lessons so you can use it to help you revise.This blog is intended to be a place where I can give you hints and tips on learning English and post information about our sessions and your end of term exams. Let's see how we get on with it.