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> Purpose & Design

Levels: S5, S6

Objectives
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to motivate students to learn and use English by providing them with a simulation task to work on
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understand how the English language functions in work-related contexts and apply this understanding to their learning and use of language in real life
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to prepare students for their future careers by helping them develop positive attitudes towards work and learning
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to provide opportunities for students to show their talents (video shooting, editing, selection of music/ songs, acting, creativity, art…) and explore jobs which they are interested in
   

Features and design of the Workplace Communication Project
 
1. Language skills

Writing tasks

Reading tasks
1 Agenda
2 Minutes
3 Naming the company
4 Explaining how the logo is designed
5 Organisational charts
6 Details of a company
7 The design of the product
8 Poster/ print advertisement
- Features of the text type
- Adjectives describing the product
- Slogan
9 Leaflets
- Features of the text type
- Information about the company & the product
10 Story board
- Features of the text type
- Slogan/ jingle
- Narrator/ dialogue
11 Sales presentation script
Text types and features
1 Agenda & Minutes (this text type may appear in the data files of Paper 3)
2 Poster/ Print advertisement
3 Leaflets
4 Storyboards
5 Song lyrics

Speaking tasks

Listening tasks
1 Meetings (Group discussion)
2 Sales presentation (Individual presentation)
- Presenters should demonstrate the speaking skills learnt in SBA (Individual presentation) and Paper 4 (individual response)
- Audience ask questions or give comments
1 Songs
2 TV commercials viewing
3 Note taking
- Jot down information while listening to presentations
   
2. Work
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Industries involved:
- Advertising
- Retailing
- Multimedia
(Students were encouraged to explore the area they were interested in)
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Tasks related to workplace:
- setting up a company
- following an agenda to run a meeting
- producing a product (selling point, target group, why it was better than the same/ similar products produced by other companies)
- promoting a product
   
3. Roles
  Roles of teachers:

The bosses/ CEO of the parent companies (they were expected to treat their students as their employees and help them develop positive attitude to prepare them for their future career)
  Roles of students:

Employees of one of the branches of the parent company

Assessment tools
- Lesson observations of the implementation of the project
- Analysis of student work
- Teacher questionnaire
- Student questionnaire

 

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