4. Home Assignment:

1) Write the summary based on the video “Online Virtual Events and Business Conferences” and recommend the ways to improve your audience engagement.

2) Do exercises 1 – 3 from the Workbook to Unit 10.

3) Find out in the Internet information on any coming conference you have been interested in and share this info with other students next class.

Workbook

Unit 10 Conference

1. Read the invitation to conference participation given below.

TECHNOLOGY IN ENGINEERING CONFERENCE

45 Broughton Street, Brighton

J. Higgins

Purchasing Manager

Zacron Engineering

Unit 5

Hempstead Industrial Estate

Hemel Hempstead 25 May 2012

Dear Mr. Higgins,

We have pleasure in inviting you to our annual conference. This year it will be taking place at the Metropole Hotel, Brighton from 24 to 28 July.

We enclose details of the conference, accommodation arrangements and a provisional program.

Last year you gave a very interesting presentation on the subject of ‘Purchasing High Technology’. We would be very grateful if you would consider giving us an update on this.

We would appreciate it if you could confirm your participation at your earliest convenience.

Yours sincerely,

P Matthews

P Matthews

Conference Organizer

2. With the help of bilingual dictionary make up vocabulary of words you don’t know the meaning of:

annual conference –

to enclose –

accommodation arrangements –

provisional program –

to give an update –

to appreciate –

to confirm participation –

3. Write a reply to the letter given in exercise 1.

Your reply should include the following:

1. Reference to the above letter.

2. Confirmation of your participation.

3. Request for more information about the program.

4. Apology for not being able to give another presentation

(pressure of work –no time for preparation).

2. A polite phrase to end the letter.

Some parts of the letter have already been done for you.

Zacron Engineering

Unit 5

Hempstead Industrial Estate

Hemel Hempstead

Mr P Matthews

Technology in Engineering Conference

45-Broughton Street

Brighton 1 June 2012

Dear Mr. Matthews,

With reference to your letter of 25 May, I am pleased to_____________________

I would be grateful__________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________

___ Unfortunately, __________________________________________________

_____________ I am afraid,___________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________

Yours sincerely,

J. Higgins

J. Higgins

Purchasing Manager

From “Early Business Contacts”

Individual assignment

Unit 10 Conference

1. Study the information on conference given below in the leaflet. Make up vocabulary of abbreviations, words and word combination you don’t know the meaning of. Pay special attention to the underlined words. Get ready to explain their meaning next class.

IUI is where the community of people interested in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community. We are very interested in contributions that bridge these two fields and also related fields, such as psychology, cognitive science, computer graphics, the arts, etc. IUI researchers are interested in improving the symbiosis between humans and computers, so that interface design and interactive experiences yield higher performance outcomes. This may involve designing interfaces that incorporate intelligent automated capabilities, if the net impact is a human-computer interaction that improves performance or usability in critical ways. It may also involve designing an interface that effectively leverages human skills and capabilities, so that human performance with an application excels. In other cases, such as educational interface design, it may involve exercising judgment in when not to automate a function so that humans are encouraged to exert themselves as they acquire new skills or domain knowledge.

(The text is retrieved from the Internet at http://www.thefreedictionary.com/conference

as of 5 April 2012 and modified as compared with the original)

IUI symbiosis leverage (v)

HCI interface design excel (v)

AI yield (v) encourage (v)

interaction performance outcomes exert (v)

contribution capabilities acquire (v)

bridge (v) net impact domain knowledge

cognitive science usability

2. Using the information given in exercise 1 write down the questions that may be asked as for the conference goals, time, venue etc. Get ready to give explanations on the issues concerning the conference arrangement.

Student’s book

Unit 11

Public Speaking

Lead-in (Speaking – Reading)

1.What is speaking? What is public speaking? Can you name any brilliant speakers you can recollect? Why they differ from the others? What qualities do they possess that makes them impress the audience so much? Are those skills innate or acquired and trained? Would you like to impress the audience one day? What topic would you choose to discuss? Discuss these questions in groups of two-three students (you have five minutes for discussion). After the group discussion, one

student from each of the group will be requested to make a short presentation of the conclusion made (not more that three minutes for every presentation; not more that 12 minutes for all the presentations).

2. Read the text given below and get ready to say whether the information (given in passages 1- 5 is being presented according to the plan:

a) basic elements of public speaking;

b) interpersonal communication and public speaking components;

c) defining what public speaking is;

d) public speaking is done by professionals:

e) public speaking purpose.