UPDATES

Please take note that your assignment presentation will be this coming THURSDAY, 4th February 2010, from 10.30 - 12.30 .... please ensure that all your materials are ready to go on that day....

Sunday 31 January 2010

Assignment Presentation

As stated in your assignment brief, your assignment presentation will be on Thursday, 4th February.

Dresscode
Please make sure that you are dressed appropriately...
For girls, you should either wear a skirt or trousers, with a blouse. You can also wear a dress. No t-shirts or singlets will be allowed.
For footwear, ensure that you wear heels and not ballerina (or any flatties)

For the boys, you should wear trousers with either a short sleeve or long sleeve shirt. No t-shirts and jeans.
For footwear, wear formal shoes and not sneakers or sports shoes.

Presentation materials
Make sure all your materials are produced on powerpoint. All materials must be saved on pen-drive. You should also submit to me a printout of your presentation before you actually present.

Saturday 30 January 2010

Comments - Task 4 and 5

Generic Comments

All groups are encourage to list down the website where you got your information from. Remember that plagiarism is the number 1 sin in any academic course

Ourgroup

I enjoyed reading the business practices of China. I can see that you have been a lot of work in researching this. However I would like to really hear your “own” group voice. It would indeed interesting to see how the business practices of China are similar/ different from that of Malaysia.

You have quoted good examples of ways to contribute to the environment. Your points could however do with more explanation and expansion, including listing companies that actually practice such environmentally-friendly methods.

Five5stars

I would have liked your discussion on the ways to promote environmentally-friendly practices to be more thorough by giving me examples of specific companies that implement such practices.

I liked the way you presented the business practices of Japan, complete with the pictures. Your discussion however is more focused on Japan, as a nation and I would have liked to see your discussion of the business practices, and possibly the reasons why such practices are norm in Japan.

First Time

Is your discussion of ways to contribute to environmentally-friendly causes focused solely on the automobile industry? I am unclear here as you only seem to focus on the different developments in the automobile industry. How can this be related to other businesses?

Your discussion of the Korean business practices is thorough and well-developed. Good work!!!

HeroDBA

Your post on the business practices seems to have gone “Missing”. Did you forget to upload the content?

Your discussion on the different ways is quite good but requires more examples. Would like to see this expanded upon.

Ethnic-Six

Well done with both tasks for the week. You could improve on the one focused on environment by adding some “real-life” example companies that practice the different ways.

The write-up on India is interesting. You could improve it by having some pictures attached to the blog post.

My style

You were the only group to give me examples in the task on business and the environment…well done for that. You could actually expand on this more….as you didn’t quite explain the different ways though.

Your discussion on the business practices is concise and easy to read. You could include some pictures though.

Sunday 24 January 2010

Grammar Presentation Schedule

11/1/2010
Present simple and present continuous
Present perfect and past simple
Make and Do

18/1/2010
Adverbs
Used to vs Used to be doing
Imperatives

25/1/2010
Conditionals - 1st, 2nd
Fractions and Percentages
Reported Speech

1/2/2010
Future Tense
Passive Voice

8/2/2010
Modals
Gerunds and Infinitives

22/2/2010
Articles
Relative Clauses

Saturday 23 January 2010

New Task

Task 1
Select an Asian country and research on some of the business practices of that particular country. You can choose from the countries below:
  1. China
  2. Vietnam
  3. Thailand
  4. India
  5. Japan
  6. Korea

Task 2
Identify 3 ways in which a business can actively contribute to protecting the environment

Monday 18 January 2010

Comments on the First 3 Blog Posts

Ourgroup
A big well done to members of ourgroup, who have produced a very informative and attractive mind-map of the text “ Learning to Cope with Corporate Culture Clashes”. Would have liked seeing your company profile written in paragraph form though the addition of the short video clip about Body Shop is indeed a good introduction to the company and the products they have.
To the two boys in the group, Justin and Zhou Cheng, make sure that you provide male insights to the different tasks that will be given in the next few weeks.

Five4stars
Interesting summary of the key points in “ Learning to Cope with Corporate Culture Clashes”. You have presented a very different illustration of the key points, which clearly shows that you have understood the major issues brought up in the text.
Very good description of Maxis.
And most of all, I like the group profile, with the group picture!!

swzone
I love the way you have introduced your group members as well as explained why the title “First Time” was chosen and to add to your “first time”, this is really the first time for any blog project that a group has explained why they have chosen a specific blog title to well done to you.
The explanation about Maxis could do with more elaboration though. You seem to be more focused on explaining the shifting of company premises, though I would have loved to know more about what the core business of Maxis is.
Your summary of the key points in the reading text “ Learning to Cope with Corporate Culture Clashes” could have been more developed. No worries though, you will have the opportunity to do the same thing in a few more blog tasks to come.

herodba
Your group profile could have been more expanded had you explained to me how the four of you met. I would have also loved to see a picture of all the group members.
A suggestion for improvement in your company profile. You could have written and expanded upon the history and development of Virgin Group by articulating your ideas in paragraph form.
A good job on the reading text “One Day in My Life”. Your mindmap is clear and easily understood.

Ethnic-six
I love your group’s name. So creative. Your member’s profile is interesting, with good descriptions of all the members. Would have loved to hear about my fellow Convent junior, Tasha…so please…tell me more about yourself!
You could improve on your company profile by presenting a summarized version of the content you have in paragraph form.
Your flow chart on the text, “One Day in My Life” is interesting. Keep the good work coming!!

mystyle-dba
The dynamics of your group is really interesting. And the group photo is really nice. I do hope to hear more about the group members.
Very thorough write-up on the Body Shop. Well done on this blog post.
Interesting mind-map of the text “One Day in My Life”. Do pay attention to your colour combination as the points in the “black cloud” are a little difficult to read.

Thursday 14 January 2010

15th January 2010 Blog Tasks

Please ensure that by the end of the week...you should have completed :
  1. Your group member profile - complete with photos of your group members
  2. The company profile of either one of the four companies I have listed in your tasksheet
  3. A mind-map summarizing the key contents of either "One Day in my Life" or Learning to Cope with Corporate Clashes"

New beginnings


Another new year and another new batch of BE 1 students..

Would like to take this opportunity to say HI to the January 2010 cohort and may you keep this business learning blog alive and well...

A note to all the different blog groups currently working hard at your blog entries, please make sure that you have given me the correct blog addresses as I can't seem to access some of them...

Also as I can't find tumblr's comments page, I shall therefore post my comments here on this blog site...

Keep up the good work, people and I hope to see your second post, on the companies I asked you to find out about soon,