BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//6.4.7.3//EN TZID:Europe/Berlin X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:VEVENT UID:12@eltas.de DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20170520T123000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20170520T163000 DTSTAMP:20170424T091251Z URL:https://www.eltas.de/events/oup/ SUMMARY:OUP-Eltas Business English Day DESCRIPTION:Join OUP and Eltas for an informative day featuring two interes ting business English themes!\nPart 1\nVocabulary. It’s only words.\nOn e of the most regularly requested areas for improvement on Business Englis h course is vocabulary. From Victorian parlour games to 21st century apps\ , we all have our favourite ways of helping students improve their knowled ge of and ability to use the right word in the right place. In this worksh op I will look at the ten most popular vocabulary activities based on a re cent poll of international teachers of English and discuss how useful they really are. We will work out what a learner has to do if they really want to increase their active vocabulary.\n Bio-data Robert McLarty\nRobert M cLarty is a freelance EFL consultant who writes materials\, trains teacher s\, teaches EAP at Oxford University and is the editor of Modern English T eacher. In his career he has worked in Hastings\, Paris and Oxford as a la nguage school director\, teacher-trainer and ELT publisher. \nPart 2\nCri tical thinking in Business English\nAs Business English teachers\,we are f amiliar with skills such as presenting and negotiating but perhaps fewer o f us consider how the skill of critical thinking impacts on Business Engli sh teaching. \nAnd yet critical thinking is regarded as one of the key twe nty-first century skills that employees look for in a candidate when recru iting. Critical thinking skills are also listed as a key objective on many MBA and university-based business programmes. In this session\,we’ll ex plore the place of critical thinking in business and then we’ll try out a variety of practical classroom activities which develop both language sk ills and critical thinking skills. The session will draw on the Talking Po int feature in the new edition of Business Result.\nBio-data John Hughes\n John Hughes is teacher\, trainer and course book author. In his 25-year ca reer in ELT\, he has managed Business English and ESP departments for lang uage schools in Poland and Italy. He has run teacher training courses incl uding preparation for the LCCIEB First Certificate in Teaching Business En glish. For Oxford University Press\, he has been an author on course serie s including Quick Work\, Profile\, Business Focus\, Business Essentials\, Successful Presentations and Successful Meetings\, and Business Result.Wit h over 30 ELT titles and numerous articles\, he received the BESIG David R iley Award for Innovation in Business English and ESP in 2016.\nThis Oxfor d University Press sponsored event is being held free of charge for all El tas members and other participants.\nMerken LOCATION:ISM (old)\, Olgastrasse 86\, Stuttgart\, BW\, 70182\, Germany GEO:48.769887;9.180345 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Olgastrasse 86\, Stuttgart\ , BW\, 70182\, Germany;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=ISM (old):geo:48.769887, 9.180345 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Berlin X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20170326T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR