Pete Sharma Associates

Great news is that we’ll enjoy a repeat of the great Pecha Kucha evening at the next IATEFL conference. Slightly more disconcerting is that Pete has been invited by Lindsay Clandfield to do a Pecha Kucha presentation. Gulp….

Delighted to announce that Pete will be presenting at the next BESIG conference:

New technology and the future of business English.

This presentation will update teachers on some of the latest developments in technology; critically analyse these; and explore ‘best practice’.

Macmillan have just published the latest business English e-lesson, called ‘The future of Starbucks’. Enjoy it!

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Some interesting videos here – including Adrian Underhill on pronunciation, plus videos with Scott Thornbury and Michael Hoey.

The CD-ROM (Science – Macmillan Vocabulary Practice Series by Keith Kelly; Macmillan) is of tremendous value, allowing users to listen to the pronunciation of words and providing exciting mind-mapping software, as well as animations.

To read the complete review, as well as the other ‘Reviews in brief’, see this month’s EL Gazette.

Macmillan have just uploaded the latest e-lesson called ‘You’re fired!’. It is about the winner of the TV show ‘The Apprentice’ and focuses on being ‘economical with the truth’ at a job interview. Enjoy!

BP’s 2007 annual report, which can be downloaded as a PDF from their website is accompanied by a set of downloadable MP3 recordings of the parts of the report.

Although these are, no doubt, intended as an aid to BP investors who, for whatever reason, are unable to read the text, they are also a boon to any business English teacher working with intermediate level students from the oil industry.

This is the case with my colleague Simon Cook who drew my attention to them and has been using both recordings and text with one of his students.

Neil Ballantyne has devleoped a website which may be of interest to anyone who uses Promethean interactive whiteboards, or wants training on Activstudio software. It includes tutorials to help learn how to develop IWB content, plus an overview of the main tools of Activstudio. 

Congrats to James Schofield on his two new readers for Summertown, entitled ‘Peril in Venice’ and ‘Ekaterina’.

The CD contains the mp3 audio file of the whole text to download and listen to on a computer, or copy to an mp3 player.

Enjoy!