Summer adventures: Part 7 Business Englishing

This summer I have had the luck of taking part in ITDi's Business English course with Vicki Holett, which I found really interesting. I have learned so many things and it helped me overcome my fear... So far I had never taken up students who needed English for their job, for fear not being able to teach them what they need.
In this course we have covered:

• Key ways in which Business English differs from teaching General English and skills we need
• Limitations and benefits of different types of lesson teaching, methods and techniques (like CLIL, PBL etc)
• How to make presentations, overcoming challenges
• Misunderstandings, communication and BELF ( Business English as Lingua Franca)

 All the online sessions were really interesting and the discussion on the chat - box very stimulating.

I have to say that I don't take part in online discussions that easily, I prefer to sit back and listen and read what the teacher and the participants have to say and try to understand on my own pace.

As a final assessment, we had to make a power-point presentation of a Study Case:

Business English assignment for Itdi from Theodora Pap

• Identify our students and their needs
• Choose the correct methods for our students
• Design the key elements of the course

It was a wonderful experience! A big thank you to Vicki Holett, Steven Herder, Barbara Sakamoto and everybody at ITDi. Looking forward to the next course