Seminar plan "Exercise Company in Teaching English in the classroom"
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Content

1. Notice

2. Learning goals

3. Groups:

4. Time:

5. Seminarroom:

6. Material:

7. Prework:

8. Abbreviations:

9. Equipment needs:

This workshop is a part of the training program to EFL Teachers' Seminar in BRIOP.

Participants know the aims, principles, features and building of „Übungsfirma“ or  "Exercise company". Participants may  use the concept in their own practice, they have an  opportunity  to get involved in the group activities.

English teachers

 90 minutes

The seminar room should offer  space & movable furniture to work in various social forms. In the seminar room  should be a computer and a projector.

Worksheets and equipment: PPT presentation, blackboard or flipchart; wall, thumbtacks; posters, pins

Copy the worksheets, check the equipment, setting of the computer and the projector;

SL – Seminarleader, PC – participants.

PowerPoint

 Seminarplan  Workshop Übungsfirma

Time

Learning goals

Participants (PCs)

Seminarleader (SL)

Materialien/
Medien

To Do for Seminar

14.00

Greeting

Frontal

PC listen to

Greeting,

Seminarplan

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10

Topic introduction

Walking in the classroom

Each PC  grabs a card, looks for a partner & asks a question from the card, after asking questions each other they both change the cards and look for a new partner in the room.  

SL explains the task:

 PC should have a talk with 5 partners.

AB 1 cards

15

Critical thinking

 Warm up

PCs   in Groups fill in the Mind map  „Company“

After the signal in 3 minutes the groups change their lists, 3 times & the groups get their own lists.

Pcs read the mindmap.

PCs answer SL's questions.

Divides into  groups, explains the task, gives each 3 Minuten  Signal, for example: a clock

 SL asks questions:

• Read your Associations in the Mindmap.
• Can you use the same words for the definition “Exercise company”?
• What do you think about “Exercise Company”?

Paper A4

In the middle

"Company"

Is written.

20

Input

frontal

PCs listen to & answer the questions of SL, ask questions to SL.

SL asks questions:

Where can you have  real Eyecontact? It is important to explain the students the points of discussion:

what goods or services to sell,

how many departments to have,

how productively all the times  to work, how many employees to have and at last how to make money.

PPP

20

10

Reflection 1

Presentation

PCs  in Groups discuss their ideas for the topic „Forming a Company" in their  Context.  How many structures/branches are there in the Company? And they visualize it in the poster. After the discussion every group present their company and try to prove that their idea's  the best one.  The ideas could be different. This form of classroom activity also helps the students in making choice of their future profession too.

PCs present their company, other groups compete with him & ask questions.

SL helps the PCs to make the presentation.

 Posters for groups, pencils.

10

Reflection 2

PC in individual work fill in the applications of the concept and write them down in the AB. 3

 PCs  visualize their attitude to the concept

ÜF in 3 corners  

3  Corners:

A. I will  use ÜF or EC and  I realize soon in the classroom.

B. I will use ÜF or EC but  I can't realize it in the classroom.

C. I will  not use ÜF or EC in the classroom.

SL explaines the task.

If the time is over, it'll be a homework.

SL  makes a summary.

AB 4 for each PC

2

Conclusion

SL  gives handout materials to the PCs.

Have you ever heard about

"Übungsfirma"

exersice company?

Do you like watching News  on TV?

Have you applied for a job in an  English company?

 Have you got  a lot of

job experience ?

Do you  like to make role playings devoted to professional life?

Do you know Russian

Rouble  currency  to Euro?

Would you like to work in Great Britain?

Do you need  to

 call in a job often?

What English companies

in Buryatia do you know?

Have you ever written  a complaint?

What profession except teacher's could you exercise?

Have you already given many presentations at  work/in the classroom?

Have you ever sold anything?

What is your experience  in "marketing"?

Would you start a business in real life?

Do you enjoy  reading  any business reports?

What  structures do you know in the company?

What  mean these  English abbreviations LTD, CORP., IBC?

What  qualities  should have a leader of the company?

Have you had more than

3  interviews?

Are you looking for  new challenges at work?

How would you describe your attitude towards money?

Which position would you like to take in a company?

What do you expect from this seminar?

Cost

Profit