Description: Review principles of effective meetings and negotiations; review common chunks in these fields; prepare and participate in a business simulation.
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Title of ER: Meeting and Negotiation Simulation
Level: B2
Target audience: all college level students
General goals/objectives: speaking (business English)
Specific goals/objectives:
- Practice using common meeting and negotiation language in a structured simulation
Materials needed for activity: (check the following)
X internet access _ projector _ speakers _ printout X BYOD (Bring Your Own Device – smartphone, tablet)
_ other:_____________
Time: 5 academic hours
Overview: Review principles of preparing for and running effective meetings and negotiations; review common chunks in these fields; prepare and participate in a business simulation.
Activity 1
Introduce the elements and language of an effective meeting and work through the exercises.
Activity 2
Introduce the elements of an effective negotiation and work through the exercises.
Activity 3
In groups of six, have students plan and video this simulation.
Supplementary materials
Business English Podcasts for Meetings
Business English Podcasts for Negotiations[/tabcontent][tabcontent]
| Production / Speaking | Overall spoken production | Can give clear, detailed descriptions and presentations on a wide range subjects related to his/her field of interest, expanding and supporting ideas with subsidiary points and relevant examples (B2) |
| Production / Speaking | Sustained monologue presenting a case (e.g., in a debate) | Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples (B1+) |
| Interaction / Spoken | Information exchange | Can exchange, check and confirm accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters in his/her field with some confidence (B1+) |
| Interaction / Spoken | Information exchange | Can summarize and give his/her own opinion about a topic in his/her own field with some confidence (adapted B1+) |
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