For practice!!

Hi!! I forgot send you the link for practice...is this http://class.englishcentral.com/RosalbaRojas

You have to add an email and password. Then you could chose what you want to practice, for example in SPEAK you could find a lot of videos and if you have a microphono you could record your voice and review if what you are saying is correct.

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Question about Risks/ Enrique

Every business faces risks that could present threats to its success. Risk is defined as the probability of an event and its consequences. So, how can we identify if we are taking bad or good decisions for our company???

Practice links

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/hadrians-wall

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/mix2.htm

http://www.nonstopenglish.com/allexercises/grammar/grammar-tenses.asp

http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/condition3c.html

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests

Videos _Unit 4_ Risk

As we are sure that the risk exists in almost all areas of our lives, I want you to watch two different videos and say what do you think about it.

Stock Market Tutorial On Risk Management

Risk and Consequence

Vocabulary Unit 4_Risk

anticipate-predict: make an informed guess that something will happen


gauge-evaluate: think carefully about something and decide its value or importance


identify- recognize: see something and know what it is


weigh up: consider good and bad aspects of something before making a decision


minimize: reduce something to the smallest possible level


exposing: put something in a situation where it is not protected from something


run the risk of: encounter the danger of something bad happening


determine: carefully calculate and decide something


accept: able to regard and understand a situation or future situation as true





prudent: use good judgment before to make a decision


sensible: be reasonable


cautious: be careful to avoid problems or danger


rash: do something too quickly without consider the effects of your actions


risk averse: take few risks


foolhardy: ignore obvious dangers in a stupid way


reckless: dont think about the possible bad effects of your actions


bold: fearless


imprudent: be not sensible especially in relation to the way that monet is spent or invested


over-cautious: have a lot of precaution doing business in that case

Glossary Unit 3

Unit 3

Vocabulary


Accomodate needs: To provide what a particular person or group needs.

Achieve results: To succesfully produce or cause something good.

Anticipate problems: To expect things to go wrong or be difficult.

Assess progress: To make a judgement about how much has improved or developed.

Aversion to: A strong feeling of not liking.

Exchange information/ knowledge: You tell or give it to other people and receive it from them at the same time.

Facilitate change: To make it posible or easier for things to change.

Generate enthusiasm: To make people feel enthusiastic.

Implement: To start to use or act according to that has been decided.

Iniciatives: New plans for dealing with a particular problem or for achieving a particular purpose.

Means: A way of achieving or doing.

Measure success: to jude how much success has been achieved.

Procedure: The usual or correct way of doing.

Purpose: A clear intention or aim that is supposed to achieve.

Put in place: To make ready to work or be used.

Resistant to: Opposing and trying to stop it happening.

By: Viviana Acosta G.
*Glossary from Business Result Interactive CD

Question about CHANGE/ Enrique

Hello everybody!!

Once I heard someone saying that there are only three things that are certain in life -death, taxes and CHANGE!! We are living now in a everyday changing world, how can we deal with that??? what is the most important step to follow if we want to have success in our businesses???

Change Organizations

Vocabulary Unit 2

Follow less conventional paths: To have an usual career or achieve things in an unusual way, compared to most ordinary people.

Move horizontally: To change to another job on the same level rather than up or down.

Grow into your role: To become better at the job you do, so that you feel more confident and satisfied.

Reach a stage where…: To develop so that you are in a particular state or period of your life.

Broaden your horizons: To increase your experience and knowledge.

Go beyond the scope of your job: To do things outside the range of things that an organization. An activity etc includes or allows.

Take a step backwards: To return to lower level or to an activity that you did in the past.

Put yourself in a better position: To improve your situation so it is easier for you to do something.

Phrasal verbs

Stand up for: to support or defend somebody or something.

Stick up for: to support or defend somebody who’s been criticized.

Stay ahead of: to always be prepared to deal with something or somebody because you know what is likely to happen.

Get on with: to continue with something, especially after an interruption.

Stand out from: To be easily noticed because something/somebody is different or special.

Cling on to: To manage to keep something by trying very hard.

Come up with: To think of an idea or an answer.

Keep in with: To make sure that you stay friendly with somebody, because they can give you an advantage.

Hold on to: To keep something that is an advantage for yourself.

Look out for: to try to notice something.

Move on to: To change or progress to another activity, subject of conversation etc.

Stand up to: To be able to be treated in a particular way and still stay good or correct.

By Beatriz Talavera