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Dec 08 2009

2010 Membership

category: Admin author: Claire Johnson (office)

Our invoices for your 2010 membership are on the way!
This year, you can pay on-line at http://www.ebea.org.uk/about_us/membership_renewals_2010/ or if you would like to pay a reduced subscription, our direct debit form can be found at http://www.ebea.org.uk/about_us/join_us/
We look forward to working with you during 2010 and wish you all a very “Merry Christmas and Prosperous New Year”

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Nov 22 2009

Jedward

Nice activity for X factor fans.
Feature article on the X factor twins John and Edward – Meet Jedward, infuriating but irrespressible. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/x-factor/6545930/Jedward-infuriating-but-irrepressible.html
Some of the language and syle is probably a bit difficult for GCSE level – perhaps a bit of cutting and pasting and/or highlighting might be advised.
Interesting article which could be used to generate [...]

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Nov 05 2009

The BBC box

The BBC News followed a shipping container for a year to tell stories of globalisation and the world economy. Excellent opportunities for discussions around  global trading, packaging, growth/decline of secondary industries, impact of the recession. Lots of video reports and maps for tracking the box.
There is even a cut-out model plan for making a container [...]

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Nov 05 2009

Johnnie Walker Whiskey

10-minute video of Robert Carlyle telling the history of Johnnie Walker whiskey. Very interesting and entertaining and lots of stuff in there for a class discussion or to introduce a topic eg branding, growth, enterpreneurship, product development, global trading. Because it is a case study on whiskey not appropriate for under-16 and even 16-18s you would probably [...]

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Oct 29 2009

Balance sheet anagrams

Do you like anagrams? This is a balance sheet anagram puzzle. 19 terms all of which would appear on a balance sheet. Useful revision activity.  Hand out the sheets as they come into the classroom, set a time limit on it and then they finish for homework.
Follow up – although I don’t think GCSE & [...]

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Oct 19 2009

News item for class discussion

Union urged to cancel post strike
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8313623.stm
Royal mail has offered to approach the conciliation service Acas but only if union members call off planned strikes.
Some ideas for discussion:
1.Legislation around industrial action – strikes in particular eg

Official and unofficial strikes
Royal Mail is bringing in temporary staff to do some of the work, what can those people do [...]

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Oct 12 2009

Autumn 2009 Journal

category: Admin author: Claire Johnson (office)

Our Autumn journal “Teaching Business & Education” will be mailed shortly and should be with you in the next 7-10 days!

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Oct 09 2009

Follow that! A vocabulary game

This is a game based on a game we used to play with our three children on long car journeys in an attempt to stop them knocking the living daylights out of each other, whining for food or playing ‘let’s pair up to wind the third one up’. That game was – say the name of [...]

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Oct 05 2009

Crack the code – a puzzle

Crack the code – code puzzle of twenty words in connection with the recruitment process. Probably takes about twenty minutes to half an hour. Hand them out as students come in as a settle-down activity or use as a fill-in at the end of the lesson.  Finish off for homework. Follow up next lesson with discussions around the [...]

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Sep 29 2009

Quick activity to help with understanding of ratio analysis

 Goal scores from the three top strikers last season:
N Anelka 19
C Ronaldo 18
S Gerrard 16
The number of matches they played in were  35, 33, 30 respectively.
Who had the best goal scoring ratio?
I think the answers are:
Anelka            0.54 : 1
Ronaldo         0.55 : 1
Gerrard           0.53 : 1
Makes Ronaldo the best performer – scored a ratio of 0.55 goals per match.
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