Trade Fair English

First Semester Syllabus
1. Introducing the Course 
2. Project Assignments 
3. Designing a Trade Fair 
4. Necessary Resources 
5. Means of getting resources 
6. Step-by-step planning 
7. Avoiding problems 
8. Evaluating trade fair performance 
9. Review 
10. Mid-term project due 
11. Discussion of projects 
12. Publicity 
13. Display arrangements 
14. Making the booth more attractive 
15. Manning the booth 
16. Making contacts 
17. Networking at a trade fair 
18. Surveys at a trade fair 
19. Review 
20. Final Exam project due 


 About the course: 
      Trade Fair English is a project-based, cooperative-learning course in business English as it is used to generate and conduct trade fairs. Lessons will be a combination of scaffolded lectures and student activities in groups and as individuals. 

Expectations for the students: 
      Students will be expected to attend class regularly and on time, participate in class, respect others in the classroom, and in other ways respect established norms of classroom behavior. Questions are encouraged. Students are encouraged to help one another in cooperative learning. 

Textbook:
     This blog will be your textbook.  As lessons are generated, they will be added to the blog and linked to the lesson titles in the syllabus.  For the lesson, just click on the lesson title.  In your notebook, make sure you write the URL for the J-gram and for the Trade Fair English page.  They are as follows:

Additional Materials:
PowerPoint presentations, related video clips, and Internet research.

Grading scale:
Participation: 30%
Mid-term Exam Project: 30%
Final Exam Project: 40%


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