Weeks flew and here we are reaching the last day of the English classes. I can’t really believe we’ve finished classes. I feel I’ve just met with all of  you. I enjoyed every minute with you in and out of class. Your hard work, amazing willingness to learn, charming sense of humor, dedication to learning made all the difference and helped make a unique teaching/learning experience for all of us. First time in years to enjoy a class as I did yours.

Your love and kind words today in our friendly gathering meant a lot to me. Thank you very much for your words and feelings. It’s true that ‘What comes from the heart, goes to the heart’.

I wish you all the best in your studies and career. I hope we’ll keep in touch here in our special zone where we can all share what we’re going through. This area will always be available whenever you need it. It’s OUR area that we created and maintained together.

Hello MCITers,

Think of this situation: your company is sending you to a foreign company on a business trip for a week. You need to explore some of the business-related cultural aspects in that country. How do you feel about your findings?

Share with us here: a) the country you’re visiting, b) the cultural aspect you’ve explored, c) your findings about that aspect, and d) how you feel or think about your findings. 

Have a safe trip

I’d like you to watch this short presentation video. Think about the two points below while you are watching the video. Let’s hear what you are thinking about. Leave your comments on the video here and let’s discuss it.

1. How do you see this presentation start?

2. What do you think of the presenter? How effective is he? Is he missing anything? What?

As discussed in class today, there’s certain language used in the business world. Today we discussed some of the meetings language.

Now your task is to listen to this part of a meeting in which the members take a decision.

• While listening, write down some of the new expressions used for voting in meetings. Add these to the ‘Useful Language’ section on page 11 of your book.
• After you listen, I want you to discuss the two ways of voting they talk about and what you think of each.

Happy Voting

I know you may be busy preparing for your final test now. I just wanted to remind you of our last piece of work in the General English component before we move to Business English on Wednesday.

Think of one issue that you believe needs to be changed in Egypt. What is it? Why do you think it needs to be changed? What are your suggestions to help change this issue?

Let’s share our concerns about our community.

I think it’s time you check this presentation. It’s about basic punctuation rules.

Punctuation

Let me know if it’s clear and you understand now how to use basic punctuation marks.

As I told you today in class, I’ve created a survey to know about your needs in the Business English (BE) classes starting in a few days’ time. I hope you can all complete the survey. It’s on the right hand of this page. Just click on it and it will take you no more than 5 minutes to complete it. Five minutes can make a difference in the way I teach the course and the way you benefit from it.

Let me hear your voices here.

See you in class.

As I’ve been learning how to blog and the potentials blogs have for interaction between a teacher and students, I thought of creating this blog for my Business English (BE) students. It’s an open space for all students studying or interested in BE. It’s also a space where BE teachers can share their ideas, resources, projects and more.

Your suggestions, interests, ambitions, expectations are all welcome in this blog. Let’s start by sharing your expectations from BE classes. Feel free to tell me everything you want us to have. If it’s not covered in the book we’ll be using, we can surely talk about it here. This is our space to learn and share.

Waiting to hear your voices in our space.