Vitamin English: Business Topics for Our Times

Name: Vitamin English: Business Topics for Our Times
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Explore a Variety of Buisness Topics while Improving your English Conversation Skills

Created byChuck Bondi

Last updated 12/2017

English

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What you'll learn

At the end of this course, students will be able to understand and use vocabulary and commonly used phrases related to business topics in conversation.
At the end of this course, students' conversational English will more closely resemble a native English speakers' speech patterns.

Course content

4 sections • 27 lectures • 1h 44m total length

Introduction3:18
Explore business topics for our times through nine activities, including warm-up questions, background history, vocabulary, news article readings, conversations, speaking practice, and an assessment.

Will a Robot soon Take your Job? Warm-up1:54
Explore whether robots will take jobs, starting with Sophia's citizenship by Saudi Arabia in 2017, and the projection of 2.6 million industrial robots worldwide by 2019.
Will a Robot soon Take your Job? Introduction3:07
Explore how robots shape jobs, with Japan leading in industrial robots amid labor shortages and the quest for harmony between humans and robots in the workplace.
Will a Robot soon Take your Job? Vocabulary6:59
Explore essential business vocabulary for automation and employment, including assembly line, automate, clerical, precise, stable, overseas workforce, and the impact of robots on factories and jobs.
Article: Japan Not Worried About Robots Taking Their Jobs3:32
Will a Robot soon Take your Job? Conversation I2:15
Alex asks a factory robot if she is needed, illustrating a future where humans aren’t really necessary as robots perform the work.
Will a Robot soon Take your Job? Conversation II4:48
examine how factory automation makes production flawless, replacing clerical workers, prompting Alex and a robot to debate job security, with the robot seeking freedom and citizenship in Saudi Arabia.
Will a Robot soon Take your Job? Speaking Practice I2:44
Practice speaking about automation and employment by comparing robots' precise, repetitive tasks with human roles in assembly lines and clerical work.
Will a Robot soon Take your Job? Speaking Practice II3:41
Practice speaking about automation and robots replacing factory jobs, using the word automate; discuss the workforce, the assembly line, and precise costs.
Will a Robot soon Take your Job? Assessment3:49
Join an automated assessment that tests word recognition from a definition and assembly line image in five seconds and, in ten seconds, requires a simple sentence, overseen by the instructor.
Written Assignment

The Richest People on the Planet: Warm-up2:28
Explore the concept of billionaires, how much one billion dollars buys, and the scale of wealth today, including Forbes' billionaire counts and Jeff Bezos' net worth.
The Richest People on the Planet: Introduction3:50
Explore how billionaires shape the world, from Jeff Bezos's $100 billion wealth compared to Morocco's annual GDP, to Asia's rise of self-made billionaires and growing philanthropy.
The Richest People on the Planet: Vocabulary7:24
Explore essential business vocabulary used to discuss wealth and philanthropy, accounting, innovation, financial services, and fueling, with examples such as Bill Gates' philanthropy and self-made billionaires.
The Richest People on the Planet: Article2:13
The Richest People on the Planet: Conversation I2:32
Explore a conversation about inheritance as a self-made billionaire grandfather contemplates bequeathing his wealth, prompting Bertha to consider who should receive the money.
The Richest People on the Planet: Conversation II5:02
Engage in an intermediate dialogue about wealth, inheritance, and philanthropy as Bertha and her grandfather navigate a bequest, uncovering insights into self-made fortunes and misdirected wills.
The Richest People on the Planet: Speaking Practice I2:43
Practice speaking by completing sentences, pausing to read, then finishing, while exploring wealth and philanthropy, driverless cars, gene therapy, and nursing and education in this lesson.
The Richest People on the Planet: Speaking Practice II4:15
Engage in a conversation-based speaking practice on business topics, using vocabulary such as fuel, accounting, philanthropy, self-made, number, and innovation.
The Richest People on the Planet: Assessment2:48
Perform a business English vocabulary assessment by identifying the defined word and then crafting a sentence using that word in response to a picture.

How Blockchain will Change our World: Warm-up4:35
Learn how blockchain uses a decentralized ledger to record transactions across many computers, creating a shared, verifiable database and tamper-resistant blocks.
How Blockchain will Change our World: Inroduction6:03
Explore how blockchain enables near-instant, low-cost transfers with bitcoin and crypto, through peer verification and supply-chain visibility, reshaping remittances and services.
How Blockchain will Change our World: Vocabulary8:25
Explore key blockchain vocabulary and concepts, including potential, code, biometric data, supply chain, and transactions. Learn how blockchain could reshape the world's economy.
How Blockchain will Change our World: Conversation I2:30
Explore how blockchain and bitcoin could change remittances by cutting high bank fees as a character considers sending money to his brother in Pakistan.
How Blockchain will Change our World: Conversation II5:01
Explore how blockchain and Bitcoin enable sending money without banks, offering secure, decentralized transfers that can be exchanged for real currency.
How Blockchain will Change our World: Speaking Practice I2:16
Practice speaking across business topics—from customer service and online transactions to macroeconomics and biometric data for security clearance—while tracing the gasoline supply chain and corporate tax effects on GDP growth.
How Blockchain will Change our World: Speaking Practice II3:24
Engage in blockchain-focused speaking practice and build vocabulary around customers, code, biometric data, macroeconomics, international transactions, and the supply chain.
How Blockchain will Change our World: Assessment2:47
Participate in the section assessment by producing a vocabulary word and composing a sentence from a picture. Apply business English vocabulary in context to reinforce learning.
Written Assignment 2

Requirements

Before starting this course, students need to speak, understand and read English at a an intermediate level or higher.

Description

In this course, we explore and discuss a variety of relevant business topics. Each section addresses a new business topic and contains nine lessons. The focus for each of the nine lessons is as follows:

1. Warm-up Questions

2. Introduction

3. Vocabulary Practice

4. Reading of News Article

5. Conversation Reading

6. Conversation Comprehension

7. Speaking Practice I

8. Speaking Practice II

9. Section Assessment

The lessons are interactive requiring the student to repeat, respond and think critically. By the end of each section, students will have increased their knowledge about the selected topic and will have improved their ability to speak naturally and fluently about that topic.

The ultimate goal of the course is to allow students to speak fluently about an ever increasing number of business relevant topics.

Who this course is for:

The target student has a desire to improve their spoken English and is interested in business topics.

Vitamin English: Business Topics for Our Times

What you'll learn

Explore related topics

Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 3min

Will a Robot soon Take your Job?9 lectures • 33min

The Richest People on the Planet9 lectures • 33min

How Blockchain will Change our World8 lectures • 35min

Requirements

Description

Who this course is for: