Business English

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A Business English WebQuest for Students

Introduction / Tasks / Process / Resources / Evaluation

Introduction

Congratulations!!

You have just been hired as the new Human Resources Manager

Several international businessmen are willing to invest in your organization called Pharmax. They are going to invest a lot of money in a new international project. You will be responible of interviewing the new applicants for the IT sector.

In this WebQuest you need to select the best candidate for the position and interview them. In your final presentation add: Different interview questions you will ask your applicants and the reason why you choose that applicant.

Tasks

The aims of this webquest are:

1. to encourage learners to use new vocabulary about human resources and marketing

2. to practice writing skills

3. to practice oral presentation skills

4. to encourage learners to use internet resources to develop their language knowledge

Step 1

Investigate the links provided in the Process section.

Step 2

Prepare a voicethread interviewing one of the candidates. Use the new vocabulary and give reasons for your choice.

To start your research, go to the Process stage.

Process

Step 1

In this part of the WebQuest you will collect information.

Take a look at all the links provided. Follow the instructions carefully. There are two different activities.

Activity 1

Pre-activities

Vocabulary and knowledge activities

Activity 2

Research activity

Activity 1

Let´s begin by understanding some general concepts.

Pre-listening activities

Discuss the words 'employer' and 'applicant' orally. List which of the following words would be more likely to be used by an 'employer' , an 'applicant' or both during a job interview.

work experience, vacation, medical insurance, bachelor/masters/MBA, degree, training, salary, overtime, housing, promotion, work environment, transcripts, experience, personality, language abilities, references, letters of recommendation, honesty, equality, grades, office, work schedule, breaks

Consider what are some things an 'employer' would ask about during an interview and what are some things an 'applicant' would ask. Write down a couple of examples on the worksheet your teacher provides.

Activity 2

Read the instructions for each website. Then click the link under the image to visit the website. Please take the Netiquette Quiz before sharing private information.

Interview Questions

Take a look at the following job interview called The interview Tapes

You will listen to a job interview on the candidate Elliott Sellar who is applying for the position of Place on Travel & Tourism course. You must watch different clips and write notes on the worksheet your teacher provides you.

Podcast: You need to register to listen to this podcast.

Your organization is looking for their branch in South America a qualified and motivated IT LINUX Systems Engineer. Ideally the desired candidate will have at least 3-5 years experience in administering IT systems which he/she has gained through working in an international company.

The candidate will be responsible for:

- Daily administration of the Linux servers and clients in heterogeneous network environment with MS windows 2003 servers and XP Clients

- Administration and troubleshoot firewalls, VPN and DNS servers for our main office and all of our rig sites

- Participate complex administration tasks such as security audits, software patching/upgrades, performance tuning and quality assurance

- System performance monitoring, integration and hardware diagnostics

- Ensure current backups of all network-attached Linux and Windows hosts

Preferable candidate will have:

- A Bachelor or Master degree in computer science or equivalent

- Minimum 3 years experience in Linux administration

Operational experience with Sun Enterprise hardware and storage systems

- Experience with backup management software

Knowledge of networking protocols such as TCP, RPC, NIS and NFS is a plus

- NFS and generally troubleshooting and problem-solving experience required

- Source: http://en.noclibya.com.ly/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=613&Itemid=78

Take a look at these links to be able to choose the best candidate.

Available job descriptions

Systems Engineers

Seril Ingampally

Mr. John Smith from London

Antonio Calabro from Italy

Please bear in mind that all the CVs are taken from the Internet so the names I provide are fake in most of the examples provided.

Step 2

In this task you will do the following:

We have looked at some key concepts. Now you must be ready to create your own voicethread that includes the following:

select the best candidate for the position
Add different interview questions you will ask your applicants and the reason why you chose that applicant.

To prepare your voicethread do the following:

· Add name of candidate (qualifications, job experience etc.)

What is a Voicethread?

According to Voicethread.com, a VoiceThread is an online interactive media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents, audio, videos), which allows people tocollaborate while making comments in 5 different ways — using voice (with a microphone or calling in by telephone), text, inserting audio files (mp3), or video (with a web camera) — and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.

Steps on how to create your own voicethread

1- Go to www.voicethread.com

2. Take a look at this simple tutorial on How to create a Voicethread in 1 minute

In your voicethread you must add your final comments.

Take a look at the following link for extra ideas http://www.bemyinterviewer.co.uk/

When you are ready you can record you ideas in the voicethread.

Now that you have completed the Tasks, go to the Evaluation stage.

Evaluation

Self-evaluation

It is now time to evaluate your work on this WebQuest. Write a short composition in English of about 80 - 90 words answering these questions:

1) What did I learn about the topic researched?

2) How interesting and useful was this WebQuest?

When you are ready, give your self-evaluation to your teacher.

Teacher evaluation

Use this table when evaluating your students' work

Refer to this evaluation form when evaluating your students' work...

	below standard 1	standard 2	above standard 3	outstanding 4


Report on each clip viewed	report is confused and/or short and/or difficult to follow, poorly researched and/or minimally exemplified; intrusive errors of vocabulary and grammar and/or large chunks copied directly from websites	report is basic but sufficient to present main arguments; divided into clear sections and generally easy to follow; research not exhaustive but sufficient and mainly original; grammatical and lexical mistakes do not impede overall intelligibility	report is thorough and clearly laid out, with arguments convincingly made on the basis of well researched data; research has gone beyond the most obvious sources and there is ample evidence of original thinking and writing; high level of accuracy and a broad lexical range	report is exceptionally well argued, demonstrating original, often committed, thinking based on thorough research, expressing a range of points of view but reaching clearly articulated and accurately expressed conclusions

Voicethread Presentation	presentation simply read aloud; not easy to follow, poorly illustrated, and/or under-rehearsed; work not well distributed between group members; little apparent liaison or collaboration	presentation organised into stages, clearly illustrated and sufficiently detailed to give a general idea; evidence of rehearsal and sufficient group collaboration, even if workload not evenly distributed; some reading aloud, but some improvised “telling”	well organised presentation, with clear and detailed rationale, showing evidence of thorough research and rehearsal; attractively illustrated; work well co-ordinated and evenly distributed; some reading aloud, but some improvised “telling”	presentation painstakingly researched but presented in an engaging, even entertaining, way; technically impressive, well resourced; even distribution of work, each contribution harmoniously linked to make a coherent whole; report delivered with notes but not read aloud; questions handled effectively and spontaneously

Self-evaluation	short, clumsily written and/or lacking in self-awareness; inaccurate to the point of unintelligibility	sufficiently detailed, balanced appraisal, covering all main points; grammatical and lexical mistakes do not impede overall intelligibility	perceptive self-appraisal; fair and balanced account of involvement, accurately and coherently written; all points covered and some in considerable depth	extremely insightful detailed and well-rounded account; balanced and informed; written in engaging, accurate and stylistically appropriate style

TOTAL MARKS AWARDED.........