POLAND !!!

Hi!

We, the adminstration students at Jímenez Montoya, use this blog for our English classes, so we thought we could also use it to communicate with you guys!

So, please put on this webblog any information you want to share with us. We'll try to answer you as soon as possible.

If you could already tell us something about your town, your school, your country and job opportunities, please do so!

Thanks and see you!

BILINGUAL DEGREE

To obtain the bilingual degree, you should be able:

- to fill in a CV form
- to do a job interview
- to have a telephone conversation
- to read and understand numbers, dates, addresses, nationalities, countries
- to spell first and last names
- to write an email/letter ordering or asking something
- to understand information about financial and insurance products --> calculate interest, profit, loss...
- to complete a balance sheet
- to fill in business and banking documents
- to know your business vocab (documents, equipment,...)
- to compare financial products
- to find information in newspaper articles

Your evaluation will consist of:
- an exam (writing, reading, listening, speaking)
- your English portfolio

If you have any questions or doubts, please ASK me!!!
(note: stupid questions don't exist :))

Find a company ad!

Now that you've written an email to your company, you have to search a company ad on the internet and find out it they have any job openings right now. Imagine what job you would like to do in the company and what you would write about yourself to appear as an attractive candidate.

In addition, start making a portfolio of what we have been doing these last weeks; make one on your computer and one on paper.

Contact your company!

After you have chosen a country and a company in which you want to do your internship next year, you'll continue to work with this same company.

Now, find the company's email address and write them an email, asking for job opportunities and a brochure or catalogue. A model for the email will be given to you in class.

After you've written this email, try to find job offers and advertisements from your company. Make sure you understand the ads and save them.
Maybe there is an opening position for your dream job ??

Antonio's class Thursday 21 January

Imagine you have 3000 Euros and you want to invest it in a financial product from the bank Abbey, for 3 years. Go to the website of the bank: www.abbey.com, choose "future" in the product list. Then try to find the financial product that will make you the most money after 3 years.
Good luck!

Links to find information

Here are some links to websites that can be interesting for you to choose a country and a company:

http://europa.eu/abc/european_countries/index_en.htm (information about each EU member)

http://www.europages.co.uk/ (this website has information about companies in the EU; you can 'search by business sector' or 'search by theme' to get an overview of the different sectors)

www.transnationale.org/epays.php (click on a EU country in the map, and than click on 'companies from...' to get a list of the most important companies in this country.

If you are really interested in searching a job somewhere in the EU, here is a preview of what you can do:

http://www.europa.eu.int/eures/home.jsp?lang=en

First task

Imagine that you are going to do your internship in the EU. Choose a country and a company where you would like to work. Find the following information about the company: name, sector, address, branches in other countries, number of employees. Write it in a WordDoc, and post it on this blog. Also add your motivation why you chose that country and company.
Deadline: Thursday, 22 January 2009