Week 11: The European Union

Tuesday 5th April

Mr. Niall Douglas

Schedule for Today

9am-10.15am: Reading and vocab check

10.15am-10.45am: Business Critical Thinking Skills Lecture Plan

10.45am-11am: Sort out groups

11.20am-12.20pm: TOIEC 12.20pm-12.40pm: Business vocab 12.40pm-1.20pm: Group Task check

Reading and vocab check

Marine La Pen and the ongoing rise of the far right in Europe

Business Critical Thinking Skills We are now into our last two weeks together ...

Boo hoo! <sad panda>

My opinion is that we ought to make best use of it in improving you

I am very glad to report that early this morning (2am!) Carol Springer from Georgia State University gave me permission to use the full Business Critical Thinking Skills syllabus – all eight stages from her 2004 and 2007 papers

Business Critical Thinking Skills This is the continuation of the Safe Night Out

(SNO) group task you had in Week 7

Here is what I am proposing:1. You stay in the groups you were in Week 72. We reduce how much readings and vocab you

must do (we have two weeks for the European Union)

3. We move to doing a Group Task starting tomorrow (Tuesday) due for Thursday

4. When then have another Group Task starting Thursday due for Monday next week

Business Critical Thinking Skills And then next week, to put you in a very

realistic Business environment: Very small readings and vocab on the EU next

week And a SNO group task each night due for the

following morning This will cover most of the SNO syllabus

stages

Each group task is the format as before: (i) Spreadsheet (ii) Presentation and (iii) Report

Business Critical Thinking Skills

This wouldn’t affect your TOEIC prep and other English language studies

We normally have two hours of theory and two hours of ELT each day, so this only affects the theory part

I suppose it depends on how much you like “the theory of the European Union” ...

Business Critical Thinking Skills Why would this be a good idea?

1. Remember from surveys of Business that Presentation skills are highly lacking in typical Business school graduates

2. Remember that effectively organising oneself and one’s group is also typically highly lacking in graduates

3. And so are critical thinking skills in general ...

It will be a lot of work for both me and for you – I have to grade all these each night!

Do you think you can cope with this?

Proposed Schedule

SNO2 due Thursday 7th April at 11.20am

SNO3 due Monday 11th April at 11.20am

SNO4 due Tuesday 12th April at 11.20am

SNO5 due Wednesday 13th April at 11.20am

SNO6 due Thursday 14th April at 11.20am

SNO group task groups

1. Manon, Clemence, Maxime, Romain

2. Louis, Tanguy, Jeremy, Calvin

3. Camille, Leslie, Steven, Rachida

4. Sitra, Anne Cha, Julie, Alexandre, Hubert

TOEIC practice

Got another TOEIC for you ...

Business vocab

Will I ever get through the business vocab, who knows it’s very heavy in my bag ...

Tonight’s reading

Explain Tonight’s reading on Greek cheese

This Week’s Group Task

Explain this week’s Group Task