PROJECTS

INDEX OF ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS

The following is a list of suggested activities and projects for ESP-Business. For the sake of consistency, all activities and projects are formatted in accordance with a Common Set of Descriptors.

Technology Tips and Strategies

• Tip #1: Email and Course Management
• Tip #2: Email Ice-breaker
• Tip #3: Cross-Cultural and Business Communication with Email Keypals
• Tip #4: Annotated All-Class Bibliography
• Tip #5: Interview an International Business Executive
• Tip #6: Building Relationships and Exploring Cultures

Getting Started: Language Support

• Online Dictionaries and Language Tools
• Effective Searches for Business English with Excite
• Effective Searches for Business English: Additional Approaches
• OWL Purdue provides information on Documenting Sources and Professional Writing

Projects

Business Communication
• Ask the Company
• Learning by "Lurking"
• Business Presentation Styles across Cultures
• The Culture of Self-Presentation and Résumé Writing

Business Research
• Researching Companies and Creating Company Profiles
• Gathering International Market Data
• Country-Specific Cultural Analysis
• Global Marketing and Communication on the Web
• Real Time Research
• Netting Jobs through the Web
• Analyzing International Job Opportunities

Business Simulations and Lesson Plans

This section contains links outside this site to no-cost problem-based learning and simulation sites that others have developed for Business or for Business English.

• Break Even Analysis and Cameron Balloons Virtual Factory. For more, see: biz/ed Virtual Learning Arcade.
• Business Simulations for forecasting, marketing, and supply chain.
• EconEdLink with lessons at the grades 9-12 level that can be adapted to post-secondary audiences.
• EFL economics lesson plans and simulations from the Foundation for Teaching Economics.
• Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) simulation from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
• Gazillionaire, a game of business strategy from LavaMinds (downloadable for Windows).
• Head Trader Game from NASDAQ.
• MJ Clothiers, a retail inventory management simulation.

Assessment

This section contains links outside this site to ideas for assessing and giving feedback on learners' work, particularly for project-based learning (as with the projects and simulations above) and traditional ESL/EFL skill areas.

• Evaluation Plan for Letters, including business letters.
• Professional Development for Educators: Rubrics, for research reports, PowerPoint presentations and more.
• RubiStar, a tool to help make assessment rubrics for oral presentations, research, writing, and more.
• Rubrician, many examples of writing and technology rubrics for grades 9-12; also adaptable for adult learners.
• Teach-Nology Rubric Maker, rubrics for ESL/EFL and subject areas; also adaptable for adult learners.

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