LUISS Business School - Proposed Course Outline

Dear Students,

Have a look at the following link which is a suggested outline for your course. http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/74451950/LUISS%20Business%20School%20Jan%202014
We can discuss if there is anything you want to change/add/take out in our next lesson on 14th February.

For reading/vocabulary practice, why not try this site?
http://www.theweek.co.uk


Sean

Special notice to students attending Euler Hermes Legal English Course

Dear Students,

Unfortunately, due to illness I will not be able to attend tomorrow's lessons (Wednesday 5th February) at 9:30 and 11 am. We will reschedule the lesson either at the end of the course (e.g. 12th March) or at another more convenient time.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

Sean

LUISS Business School Lesson 1

Group 5 (level B2.3)
9:30 am

Class

• Goal setting & needs analysis http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/63701997/Make%20A%20Difference
• Vocabulary Skills http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/41184334/Vocabulary
• Reading & Vocabulary http://www.learnvest.com/2013/11/desperately-seeking-a-job-should-you-pull-a-crazy-stunt-to-get-hired/

Homework

1. Write down your personal goal for the course.

2. Read the article again and find 8 new words or collocations. Remember the 8 x 8 rule. 

3. Read the information on the slide show http://www.learnvest.com/2013/11/desperately-seeking-a-job-should-you-pull-a-crazy-stunt-to-get-hired/?gallery=727&pid=#pid-8416_aint-0 What are the 5 suggestions they give?

Group 6 (level C1)
11:30 am

Class

• Goal setting & needs analysis http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/63701997/Make%20A%20Difference
• Vocabulary Skills http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/41184334/Vocabulary
• Reading & Vocabulary http://theweek.com/article/index/255326/5-major-career-blunders-you-didnt-know-you-were-making

Homework

1. Write down your personal goal for the course.

2. Read the article and find 8 new words or collocations. Remember the 8 x 8 rule. 

Euler Hermes Legal English Course Lesson 15

Lesson 15
Wednesday 29th January 2014

Class

Security Agreements
Legal English for contingencies
Word pairs

Homework
In the U.K. the term bankruptcy applies only to individuals (and partnerships), not to companies or other legal entities which come under the term insolvency.

• For a summary of U.K. insolvency Law and the terms it uses see: http://www.out-law.com/page-8253
• For more information on bankruptcy in the U.K. see: https://www.gov.uk/bankruptcy
• For a full legal definition of the term bankruptcy in the U.S. see http://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=33 
• For a discussion of the difference between the terms bankruptcy & insolvency (U.S.) see: http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-bankruptcy-and-insolvency/
• Read about this case from 2012 which highlights the difference between U.S. and British Insolvency Law: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/soccer-case-highlights-differences-between-u-s-and-english-bankruptcy-law/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Euler Hermes Legal English Course - Lesson 14

Lesson 14
Wednesday 22nd January 2014

• Register transfer - recycling exercise - internal email
• Secured Transactions in Common Law Jurisdictions

Liens, mortgages, pledges & loans

Security & quasi-security

Fixed & floating charges

Collocation & flow chart exercise.

Homework

Finish the flow chart which summarises today's notes

Euler Hermes Legal English Course Lesson 13 - 15/01/14

Lesson 13
Wednesday 15th January 2014

Class
Error Correction - Emails - General Feedback
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/72820556/Euler%20Hermes%20Email%20Writing%20Feedback
Register Transfer: Formal - Semi Formal - Informal

Extra Practice

• Correct your own writing using the correction sheet as a guide.
• Register Transfer Exercise http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/cae/students/writing/register/formal.htm
• Letter of Demand - multiple choice exercise on the handout. 

Grammar Note:  inform someone of something or inform someone about something

A correction that I made in class was that inform about should really be changed to inform of. I have never used inform about quite possibly because it is an American usage and does not appear in British English dictionaries. It does however appear in the Oxford American Dictionary and IELTStudyHorror.com even goes as far to suggest that there is a difference in meaning between inform of and inform about (See link above). However, the usage that they suggest for inform about (when detailed information is left out) seems rather odd to me and I would not use "inform" but "tell" in these situations.

If in down I would suggest sticking to the following structures:
inform someone of something or
inform someone that something happened

Euler Hermes Legal English Course - Lesson 12 8/01/14

Lesson 12
Wednesday 8th January 2014

Writing Task:

• formal email to client
• informal email to colleague

Letter of Advice

formulas and features

Extra Practice

Articles and legal writing

http://www.law.cuny.edu/legal-writing/students/multilingual/grammar/articles-ex1.html