Typical topics

• mobile communication
• e-business
• internet applications
• holidays and travel
• inventions
• business problems
• marketing design
• customer service

Methods

• we practice reading, writing, listening, speaking and presenting
• we use case studies, role-playing, and OOMM
• we work with written text a lot - reading, 

analysing, translating and revising
• we learn technical vocabulary
• we practise the style of memos and business letters
• we work on grammarwhen we need it
• we work on plain english

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• we report using email or a Newsletter
• the files are available only to the Egroup

Presenting

We take a product or project which you know,
create a short presentation together,
then you practice - present it to us!
We use Toastmasters methods

Role-Playing

We have a problem to solve.
Now we are in a technical or business meeting.
Each person has a role and a message to present.
In English.

Text Analysis

• Sherlock Holmes - for vocabulary and translation
• internet service pricing - for pronunciation and vocabulary
• mobile roaming - for analysis and rewriting as Plain English
• wireless Internet devices for vocabulary of informal phrases
• the Business Olympics for vocabulary of phrases
• more examples are available at a cost of Fr 10 or $5 each
• annotation or conversion to plain English on request

Software

• verbalis - all the forms of English verbs
• English grammar online
• acronyms dictionary to download
• telecom dictionary to download
• special vocabulary files - like phrasal verbs
• audio files
• handbooks and guides

Plain English

A plain English document uses words economically and appropriately for the audience. Its sentence structure is simple. Its tone is clear and direct. Its design is visually appealing. A plain English document is easy to read and looks like it's meant to be read.

We learn by converting complex text into plain English.

OOMM^TM - Object-Oriented Mind-Mapping

• We have a complex case study - to analyse, 

and to solve the problem.
• We work with a structured method of three steps: 

nouns and adjectives; relationships; verbs and adverbs.
• We use the methods of Business Process Reengineering

and Object-Oriented Analysis and Design.
• It works! (The problem above needed 3 hours to solve.)