What is the BBC?

In this class, I presented the British Broadcasting Corporation to the students using these slides and they then characterized the organization together and also thought about its strategy, micro environment and how it differs from other organizations they've studied.

Geoff Marshall [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

How political are you?

I used this powerpoint with the terminale ES group to find out what they know about politics in the UK and France. The class ended with a lively debate about the French employment law reform. One of the students had been on the demonstration that day and was more than happy to discuss why he was against it.

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Job Interviews 2

In this lesson, the students finished the worksheets about their good and bad points. We then used this infographic I made about the top ten skills employers want and compared it with the ideas they had written about themselves. They addeed new good and bad points as necessary. We then moved on to the "Get That Job!" board game to finish the lesson.

Top 10 Skills Employers Want
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Stategy and the Ansoff Matrix

In this class, we worked on an article about the four different marketing strategies in the Ansoff matrix, particularly specialization and diversification. We used this worksheet to gain a deeper understanding of the terminology and the advantages and disadvantages of different strategies. Finally, we did this task to check that everyone had understood the new notions and to prepare for the Bac sujet for the following week. 

PESTLE Analysis

Today, we went talked about how to use a PESTLE analysis to analyse a company's macro environment. We used this article and a worksheet to understand each of the factors (political, economic, social, technological, environmental, legal) and applied them to Harley Davidson, the company whose micro environment we had studied the previous week.

Questions for DNL students

I've made a list of questions for DNL students about their school trips which could be useful for practising the baccalauréat oral exam for this subject.

A video with useful links for DNL teachers

I've just had a quick look at the video below which gives some links to websites with useful content for CLIL ( Content and Language Integrated Learning) classes i.e 'DNL'. Maybe you could make use of some of the links?

Micro Environment

The students read this text quickly and had to find subheadings for the different paragraphs labelled 1-6 to revise the micro environmental factors affecting a business. The original text can be found here. Afterwards, for a business of their choice (preferably one they had already talked about or seen in class), they had to identify and explain the different micro environment factors affecting it. They then gave a quick presentation to the other students about their company and its competitors, suppliers, customers, employees, media, and shareholders.

Coca Cola Christmas Adverts

In the second last session before Christmas, we spent about half an hour watching and discussing the Coca Cola Christmas adverts. The students really enjoyed working on these ads. We talked about the different elements of the adverts: the music, what we see, the Christmassy elements. We also compared the "classic" advert to the new ones.

Original Coca Cola Christmas Advert 

Christmas 2010 and 2015 versions

Motivation Pyramid Discussion

The students had to read this text and put the subheadings in the right place. The original blog post can be found here. In the following session, the students did a pyramid discussion activity. First, they had to classify the factors from most to least motivating according to their opinion. Afterwards, they worked in pairs/small groups to agree on the most/least motivating factors for the group. We then discussed this as a whole class and compared the choices of the different groups.

One Stop English Numbers Review

 We used this lesson plan in November with the STMG group to practise numbers in between doing mock baccalauréat orals. I also did this quick quiz with them to revise saying the year:

• What year was I born?
• Which year did Christopher Columbus discover America? 
• Which year did the financial crisis start? 
• Which year did France win the World Cup? 
• Which year was the French revolution? 
• Which year did man go to the moon?

Video: how to get great marks in your oral presentations

Here is some feedback via video about the oral presentations I've heard and how to improve them. If you have any questions about this, don't hesitate to post them in the comments section.