The company was General Electric Medical Systems and they were fined in January 2005 or thereabouts. The point is that they didn't have a plurilingual policy,...
Michael Ashworth
felt@...
May 2, 2005 8:34 am
787
Apologies if you have already seen this but I thought it worth copying to the list. Duncan Moderator ... Nadine Ott ELT Projects Co-ordinator British Council,...
Is anyone interested in having their students do a Tandem type language exchange using Skype? I just created a site at Dickinson College so that our students...
Thanks, Michael, for sending company name. In the next several days, I’ll try to follow up. ... Good Q. Wish I knew a good answer or two. Later, Kelt ... The...
That's great. Count on my students! They're Argentine and naturally speak Spanish.Kep me updated, will you? Regards, Carina bryantt927 <bryantt927@...>...
Please I need some help from you. I know that we have indirect sentences when the int.pronouns are conjunctions. But would the following sentence be one?...
vera lucia meres
vlmeres@...
May 5, 2005 12:09 pm
792
Vera, The BESIG list is probably not the best place for this sort of question. It is much more general than just business English. You might like to look at a...
Thank you Duncan. I ´ve already registered myself there and had the answer. Vera Lúcia F. Meres ... ...
vera lucia meres
vlmeres@...
May 5, 2005 1:03 pm
794
You are spot on. The sentence, 'Training people to recognize which is the right extension' is incorrect because the subordinate clause beginning with 'which is...
ilangovan padmanaban
ilangovan.padmanaban@...
May 5, 2005 2:19 pm
795
The interesting thing here is, who decides what is correct or incorrect. Unlike some other languages, English has no academy to rule on correct usage. Russ ...
Thank you. Vera Lúcia F. Meres ... _________________________________________________________________ MSN Messenger: instale grátis e converse com seus...
vera lucia meres
vlmeres@...
May 5, 2005 7:04 pm
797
Dear friends, Today I had a meeting with a university here in Slovakia, that background for the meeting is that they would like to have me come and do a...
Yes, when it is a toss up as to which of two potentially ambiguous sentences is correct. As for the sentence in question, firstly it would have never been...
ilangovan padmanaban
ilangovan.padmanaban@...
May 6, 2005 3:28 pm
799
Well, I have tested my students using the usual tests the methods provide. But, to be sincere I only do it because the companies demand it. I feel my students...
vera lucia meres
vlmeres@...
May 6, 2005 8:06 pm
800
On Fri, 06 May 2005 18:24:02 +0000 ... warm regar Arfan Fahmi ... ======================================================================================== ...
ARFAN FAHMI
arfan_fahmi@...
May 9, 2005 8:56 am
801
Michael, All - It appears the French court ordered GE to comply with France's Toubon law. GE spokespersons claimed GE intended to appeal court's ruling but I...
Please take this thread to a grammar site. I have suggested ours at http://www.lydbury.co.uk/grammar - but there are others you may prefer. Use google or...
For me we assess students every single class. We reflect on their performance and move on with the class plan or adjust it to meet their real needs. Reflection...
Hi everyone, I very much appreciate Vera's and Ilangovan's contributions for various reasons. If the "honorable member from Brazil", who obviously teaches...
Gabler
karlheinz.gabler@...
May 11, 2005 1:38 pm
805
From whom do Quirk Greenbaum et al. receive the authority to decide what is correct English? How does one distinguish between educated and uneducated people? ...
Dear colleagues Can anyone point me to recent articles or research about how many people in the world might use English as a business language? And how many of...
According to British Council figures for the year 2000 there were 750 million EFL speakers. In addition, there were 375 million ESL speakers. How on Earth do...
Evan, British Council does market research and may have estimations. However, until firmer numbers come in, would 100,000,000 sound about right for today? This...
Market Leader Banking and Finance is also useful for financial terms. ... Da: besig@yahoogroups.com [mailto:besig@yahoogroups.com]Per conto di PETE SHARMA ...
Cathy Ryland
cathyryland@...
May 13, 2005 10:34 am
812
What I do is that I ask for annual reports in the major companies, and the I highlight vocabulary, and sentences that could be interesting for my students to...
why not authentic stuff from The Financial Times and perhaps compare it with TV financial reports taken from CNN? Jean Sciberras B.A. (Hons), RSA/Cambridge...
jscib@...
May 13, 2005 11:52 am
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I find textbooks on Business Basics a good source for teaching financial terms. Why not try something like Introduction to Business by Brace, ... [sorry, don't...
Tatiana Slobodina
t_slobodina@...
May 13, 2005 12:26 pm
815
To teach financial vocabulary, I would recommend Business Vocabulary In Use (Intermediate & Advanced levels) by Bill Mascull. (As I work for Cambridge ...
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