Project work
Brief: you and your team are launching a sports product, accessory or event. You want me to help you finance your business. Please convince me with a good sales pitch, while you present your case. You will explain to me :
– what your product is about
– your pricing strategy
– your distribution strategy
– how you intend to promote it and launch it
– provide me with information about your market and competitors
– persuade me with a consistent, effective, clear SWOT analysis
This is fiction: it does not matter to me if your product/business is not too realistic – this is an English class… Focus on your accent (you know what I am like…)
Assessment:
1/ Please gather the requested information in a file you will send me for seminar 9. Then present your project via a video and send it to me for seminar 9 too. The video and the associated file will be marked, worth 50% of your final grade
PLEASE BEAR IN MIND THAT THIS YEAR, DUE TO TIME CONSTRAINTS I WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY WORK SENT TO ME AFTER SEMINAR 9. THANK YOU 🙂
2/ 1-hour written test (vocabulary & notions) – 1st hour of last session (Seminar 10). Worth 50% of your final grade.
Training exercise: yes, you can improve your accent!
How about trying to repeat word for word what natives say? This will definitely help. Use the transcription tool to read as the person explains things all along… then it will be your turn to speak.
UK English version:
US English accent: