ENGLISH IS MY BUSINESS

Hello, folks! As we discussed last lesson, Business environment is full of conflicts and sometimes it is common to find companies surpassing some limits, what leads them into an unethical way. You´ll find 2 parts of movies below. The first video comes from "Thanks for smoking" and the other video is a fragment of "A good year". After watching them, discuss with friends about : 1. Tobbaco industry and human healthy. What´s the limit for making profit selling cigarettes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcdKGosBenY Watch the next video now.  2. Do you believe it is possible making profit in the Stock Market honestly? What´s your opinion about the manipulation of figures, investment, sales and purchasing on the video?

Hello, folks!  Welcome to our blog. This is a meeting point where we can read, write, discuss and contribute ideas about the topics from our course "English for Business, Managemenent and Finance.  Our first class was about job titles and workplaces and our second class was about the Departments of a company. To sum up our first 2 topics, let´s talk  about jobs a bit more, more specifically, your DREAM JOB. Based on what you wrote about that during the classes, write down what´s your dream job and explain your choices to your colleagues. 

During our lesson about e-commerce, we discussed some important aspects about this trend in business. Here you´ll find some tips when planning to start your own business on the internet. Read them very carefully and choose 2 tips you consider the best. After explain your choice. 1. Start With Your Business Name The first thing to do (after you decide what you want to sell, of course) is choose a fabulous, memorable business name that no one else is using. You can conduct a corporate name search to make sure it’s not already in use. Once you’ve chosen the name,  register it . (If you form an LLC or corporation, this will happen automatically in the state where you file your paperwork.) 2. Secure Your Domain Name and Website Ideall y, you’ll get your business name as your domain name, but if it’s not available, choose a URL that’s easy to say and spell, and relates to your business. So if your business is Karen’s Craft Creations and KarensCraftCreations.com isn’t avai...

Welcome back, IT people!  Read the text below in order to remember our last class.  The steps in website development First, discuss with the customer their requirements and the target audience. Find out what features and number of pages they want on their site. Secondly, analyze the information from the customer. Thirdly, create a website specification. Then design and develop the website. After that, assign a specialist to write the website content. Next give the project to programmers for HTML coding. Finally, test the website. After you publish the website, update and maintain it on an ongoing basis. Monitor customer use. Now, give your opinion about the following: If you could create a webpage, how would you design your personal website? What graphics, images and colors would you use? What would you say in your text? How many pages would you have? How would you organize the links on your navigation bar to show the different pages? 

The Rise of the World Wide Web Read the text below and answer these questions:  a. Was the Internet built for science geeks or the general public?  What about the World Wide Web? b. Did online communities exist before World Wide Web?  If so, can you give some examples?         By the early 1990's, people were using computers in many different ways.  Computers were already installed in most schools, offices, and homes.  They were commonly used for writing papers, playing games, financial accounting,  and business productivity applications. But very few people used them for  communication, research, and shopping the way we do now. A man named  Tim Berners-Lee changed all that. In 1990, Lee added an exciting   hypertext   and multimedia layer to the Internet and called it the   World Wide Web . The rest,  as they say, is history.      Believe it or not, the Web was not th...

      Computer Hardware Peripherals  After reading the following article, asnswer these questions: a- What´s the difference between peripherals and components? b- What´s the main purpose of peripherals in a computer?     Peripherals are a generic name for any device external to a computer, but still normally associated with it's extended functionality. The purpose of peripherals is to extend and enhance what a computer is capable of doing without modifying the core components of the system.      A printer is a good example of a peripheral. It is connected to a computer, extends its functionality, but is not actually part of the core machine. Do not confuse computer peripherals with computer accessories. An accessory can be any device associated with a computer, such as a printer or a mousepad. A printer is a peripheral, but a mousepad is definitely not one. A mousepad does not extend the functionality of a computer, it only enh...

READ THE TEXT AND COMMENT THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: a- What´s the difference among ALPHA VERSIONS, BETA VERSIONS AND RELEASE CANDIDATE VERSIONS when we talk about computer apps? b- Considering the distribution of apps nowadays, what do you understand by "shareware, freeware, upgrade versions and open source?     Without software applications, it would be very hard to actually perform any meaningful task on a computer, unless one was a very talented, fast and patient programmer. Applications are meant to make users more productive and get work done faster. Their goal should be flexibility, efficiency, and user-friendliness.      Today there are thousands of applications for almost every purpose, from writing letters to playing games. Producing software is no longer the lonely profession it once was, with a few random geeks hacking away in the middle of the night. Software is a big business and the development cycle goes through certain stages and versio...

READ THE ARTICLE BELOW AND ANSWER THE EXERCISE: Match the columns: a. Edutainment b. Multimedia c. Expert system d. Telecommute e. Information superhighway (     ) Software that enables computers to ´think´ like experts. (     ) Use computers to stay in touch with the office while working at home. (     ) Internet system designed to provide free, interactive access to vast resources for people all over the world. (     ) Multimedia materials with a combination of educational and entertainment content. (     ) A combination of text with sound, video, animation, and graphics, The ability of tiny computing devices to control complex operations has transformed the way many tasks are performed, ranging from scientific research to producing consumer products. Tiny ´computers on a chip´are used in medical equipment, home appliances, cars and toys. Workers use handheld computing devices to collect data at a custom...