Tuesday 27 March 2007

FIFTH POST

Today the Spanish students and Erasmus students did exercises, so we mixed between us.

Later Keith explained the next topic "Decision Making". First he spoke about quantitative factors in decision making, these provide a numerical basis for decision making since it reduces decisions to looking at a monetary value placed on different choices, but such data provides only part of the story.

About qualitative factors, he commented these look to talk account of these other issues that may influence the outcome of a decision.


Finally everybody talked about topic and gave their opinion.

FOURTH POST

First we did exercises of the unit 1 and 2, between Erasmus and Spaniards. We also did a dictation, it was funny.

Later we saw a video about a interview of work, where woman did a bad interview of work, because she didn't speak slowly. She also was nervous and she didn't introduce oneself correctly.


For it, Keith explained like doing the final oral presentation, and he commented that in the presentation is important that:
- The presenter explained things well, and I understood all the main points.
- The presenter used good examples.
- The Conclusion to the presentation was well-structured and reinforced the main points.
- The presenter spoke clearly and at a good speed: not too slowly, not too fast.
- Etc.

THIRD POST

The students and Erasmus did the exercises of the unit 1, so we spoke in English and improved the pronunciation and compression.

Later, Keith explicated the topic "Business Organisation". He spoke about business departments, these are: Human Resources, Sales and Marketing, Research and Development, Production/Operations, Customer Services, Finance and Accounts and Administration and IT. And the teacher also commented theirs objectives and functions. On the other hand, he explained the Organisation Charts, it can be: Hierarchical Structure, Pyramidal Structure, Centralised or Matrix Structure.

Finally, the students talked theirselves about the topic.