Business English/EFL Interviews

Students will be able to...

• Understand term ESP and basic subcategories
• Describe sample reading, writing, listening, and speaking tasks for Business English
• Identify some key cultural differences in business 
• Identify and complete the three stages to an EFL interview

[5-10 min] Review Tech Tools (skip)
Have students draw spider grams for each of the tools that we learned yesterday. The subcategories should have information on what that tool can do.

[20 min] Teacher Feedback (skip)
Provide students time to fill out teacher feedback on lectures, materials, and teaching style
MORNING COURSE SURVEY 

[20 min] Letter Writing (can skip or do) 9:35-9:55
Write a letter of advice to incoming TEFL students. They know how how to do this as I do it every month. Place them in black basket

[30-40 min] Business English Lecture 9:55-10:30

This brief lecture will cover the basics to what gets taught in a business English class with demonstrations of sample content. It also discusses the importance for a needs analysis and how it differs from "standard" ESL classes that are not ESP (English for specific Purposes)
BUSINESS ENGLISH PPT
SAMPLE BUSINESS ENGLISH NEEDS ANALYSIS A
SAMPLE BUSINESS ENGLISH NEEDS ANALYSIS B

[15-20 min] "Fun" Business Culture Videos 10:30-10:50
Directions: Watch the videos and fill out the graphic organizers
VIDEOS HANDOUT

1. Doing Business in Asia  (3 min. stop at superstitions)
2. Doing Business in the Middle East A
3. Working In Central America 

Supplemental: Doing Business in the Middle East B (stop at Ramadan)

Break around 11:00-11:20

[15-20 min] Interviewing Cultural Differences 11:20-11:35
In this part of today's class, we will take a look at some regional/cultural difference in interviewing. Briefly discuss the importance of culture in interviewing. Point out that many EFL interviewers are actually native speakers, it will just depend on the school. Even so, it is good to know some common cultural differences of the places we will be moving to.

Set Up: Write ASIA, EUROPE and LATIN AMERICA on the board. Then, call on volunteers to to read each section of the reading below on their own silently (each person just reads ONE section. There should be at least two or three people for each region. Have them read individually and then work together to come up with some bullet points on the board under their region (just the highlights). After each group is done, have them explain some interesting/useful things from their region to the class. (They will need to click on the reading below)
INTERVIEWING ACROSS CULTURES

[25 min] EFL Interview Lecture 11:35-12:00

Give Students Interview Handout and go over the parts together, making sure that they understand the common format. Emphasis that interview formats vary widely, but this is a common format.
INTERVIEW HANDOUT

[30 min] EFL interview Practice (takes around 30 minutes)
After the interview handout, students will pair up and practice interviewing. They should look at the employee cards to role play with a fake job (see below) or they can look online for a job they want. After they have their "fake job" each person should then brainstorm possible interview questions (look to same interview questions...remember to include children questions if the job is with kids).
Then students interview in pairs following the format given in the interview handout.  Rotate to make sure that each person gets interviewed. 

SAMPLE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS*
EMPLOYER CARDS  *Or Search the web for your own!

[30 min] Workshop: Lesson Plans/Learner Profile Tasks 1:00-1:30
Work on your lesson plans and thematic units. 

Materials:

Business English PPT
VIDEOS HANDOUT

EFL Interviews handout
Employer Cards (sample jobs)

[20-30 min] Supplemental Culture Business Quiz 
HARD COPY TEST
ONLINE TEST

CHAPTER BUSINESS ENGLISH TEXTBOOK