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Your top management have asked you to make a proposal for the company’s three-day intrernational IT conference. Think about these questions:

- Why is an IT conference important to an international company?

- What objectives do you think management want to achieve?

- What are the ingredients of a successful conference?

Write a memo proposing dates, a location, and a programme for teh IT conference. You will also need to get approval for your budget. (Last year budget was 700€ per person)

Remember: As promised, we will vote for the best proposal and this time there will be a prize, so brainstorm!

Hello to everybody again.

I was talking with Espe after class, and we were thinking we could have a dinner before Christmas and celebrate our particular Business dinner, like many companies do.

We can leave messages to choose the bar, pub, restaurant or whatever…

We consider it’s a good idea to know each other more and to have some laughs… and drinks (of course)

What do you think?

Hi classmates,
I’ve been working in a presentation with some of the best phrases to use in a telephone conversation. I hope it helps you!

CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE THIS POWERPOINT

This powerpoint is related to what we saw in class last Friday. I hope you find it  useful.

I have just found this really interesting article.  I think after reading this I have stopped moaning that tomorrow is Monday and it is back to work. My job is just fantastic!

Work is getting harder and harder to find these days. No matter what your area of expertise, the recession is sucking us all dry. With the abundance of jobs and skilled workers for those jobs, the situation is exacerbated. This was not the case in ancient times where some jobs were so repulsive that no one would want them – except the scum of society or those who had nothing to lose. This list looks at ten of them.

The nomenclator held a vitally important job. He was, effectively, a living-human-calendar cum address book. Now these days we have our iPhones, our Blackberrys, and all manner of digital devices to remember the people we are introduced to at meetings or (more embarrassingly) those we meet when we drink a little too much at a work party. We have all, no doubt, had that experience where we meet a person, take down their number and name, promise to contact them soon, and, in the sober light of day, wonder who the hell they are. The ancients had a much better way of dealing with this. They dragged a slave to their parties and forced him to remember the names and numbers. Now the most important difference between the iPhone and the nomenclator is that the nomenclator could tell you who the guy was, what you talked about, and whether he is worth contacting. He can also clarify whether that gorgeous lady you met was made gorgeous by beer googles or not. Frankly, if it weren’t for an exorbitantly high minimum wage, we would all be better off tossing the iPhone and taking on a modern nomenclator. But alas, who would want the job? Who would want to be paid two bucks an hour to remain sober while everyone else was partying on down? Not me that’s for sure! Having said that, just in case I am wrong and this job does appeal to some, if there is anyone living in the Wellington region who is looking for low-paid under-the-table work and wants to go to some great parties (whilst remaining sober), check out the Listverse About page and contact me.

Okay – be prepared for a sensitive topic. Recently we have had a rather unfortunate event wherein abortion was discussed on a list that caused quite the kerfuffle (it’s an English word – find the definition here). You may wonder why I mention it but if you read on you will understand. A slaver was a gentleman (used in the most liberal sense of the word possible) who sold slaves – for work or pleasure. He would either travel behind armies (who were off fighting in battle) so he could capture the losers and sell them to rich Greeks as slaves, or (and this is where we connect up with the awkward list of the last few days), he would buy “unwanted” boys (but only the handsome ones) from parents so he could castrate them and sell them as lovers to wealthy Greek men who had a taste for young flesh. They provided (in rather a repulsive way) an alternative to adoption to those parents who didn’t want their children. The downside to this (somewhat repellant) career choice, was that despite the demand for handsome young boys, the slavers were often murdered by those who didn’t approve of their trade.

The job of a hairdresser (ornatrix) is so often looked down upon these days. And it was no less so in the ancient times. But honestly, a modern hairdresser really ought to appreciate her job – because she has it so much better now than ever in the past. Picture this: your imperial queen is balding and blonde, but the fashion this week is dark lustrous locks. If it were today, you would either shove a wig on the lady or glue in some extensions. This was, sadly, not an option for the work-weary ornatrix of days gone by. In order to provide your mistress with her coal-colored mane, you had to work with a mixture of bile, rotten leeches, and squid ink (the rotten leeches made for an especially rich black). But it gets worse. Occasionally fashion would demand blonde hair and your mistress is a natural brunette. There was no peroxide in those days. To give her a lovely golden hue you had to mix pigeon poop, and ashes together in the hopes that the chemical combination would strip out the healthy color of her hair. Oh – and to set the color – you had to pee on her hair. Worse still was being a slave with beautiful hair – this would often be cut from your head and fashioned into a wig for a rich harridan.

READ MORE AT : http://listverse.com

I have found this video in youtube. Actually I am not sure if they are like that, or they’re just joking…. Do you think it is possible to be so uncultivated?

There´s a funny video about the history of the “F” word!

I hope you´ll enjoy it!!

I have spoken today with Magda about how we can personalize our profile image. Finally I have found the way, and it  is very easy! You just have to sign in with your personal name and password (http:inglescomercial.wordpress.com/admin). Once you are on your Dashboard you have to go to profile/your profile (at the lower left part of the menu) and there “change your gravatar”(at the right part of your screen). Just change it!

And if many of you ar asking about why I have put the URL without slashes just read this peace of information linked below:

www.telegraph.co.uk

picture: telegraph.co.uk

Today we are going to do these interactive vocabulary exercises in groups. Let’s see who gets the most correct answers.

First click on the image to do general banking vocabulary (quite easy). Then click on the links to do the exercises on ebanking.

NOW DO THESE EXERCISES IN  ORDER

ebanking

ebanking 1

ebanking 2

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