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b)  The skills goals established by ZOOM cause this course to be an ESP (English for Special Purposes) experience and not a general language course.

c)  Training for an ESP course will necessarily focus on specific skills as opposed to general language skills as found in regular ESL or other English courses.

d)  To meet ZOOM’s requirements, conversation and vocabulary are the focus areas which must be developed, and further, these areas must be applied to specific kinds of activities related to sales and marketing as opposed to general language development.

b)  ESL believes that 48 class hours represent a minimum time frame to achieve a functional middle intermediate ability of English in this special purpose course, which must be limited to level V skills with specialized vocabulary using restricted dialog only, in order to meet ZOOM goals.

c)  Course schedule would be divided into 40 hours of instruction time plus 8 hours of testing time on a regular basis to verify progress.

d)  Textbook chosen as appropriate for this course is "Business Venture 1 & 2" (Oxford University Press)

e)  Initial course goal would be to achieve skills equivalent to vocabulary and conversation as set forth in chapter 5 of textbook "Business Venture 2". (see attachment 2)

f) In addition to textbook, ESL will provide on-going supplemental course materials appropriate both to course content and to individual student progress, at no cost to ZOOM other than copies of said material.

g)  ZOOM must provide each student with a personal copy of textbook with cassette tape for individual study. (Textbook cost is $ 200.00 pesos, and tape cost $100.00 pesos each, both are in stock at Sandi’s Bookstore, Guadalajara, Mexico.)

h)  Attendance must be equal to 90% on a regular basis for all students, with a proviso that make-up classes are mandatory and will be arranged mutually by ZOOM and ESL at extra cost to ZOOM.

i)  Homework is an integral part of successful language learning because of the memory reinforcement it develops, and ZOOM must necessarily support and enforce this concept if success in this course is to be expected.

j) ZOOM can expect to provide approximately 15 photocopies per student per class meeting during the course period.

k) Classroom space must be provided by ZOOM and must be a consistently quiet area free from any sort of foot traffic and available to the students and ESL instructor 100% of scheduled times. In addition, 30 minute preparation time ahead of each class meeting must be scheduled by ZOOM.

l)  Blackboard / whiteboard and chalk / markers must be provided by ZOOM and if possible an overhead projector and screen, all to be available at class times.

m)  ESL uses the "Communicative Approach" to language instruction, which is characterized by high learner participation in practical real-life activities and situations in contrast to the usual academic lecture and routine drill found in less progressive and traditional methods. Learned skills are made immediately useful to the students when applying the communicative approach in the classroom.     
   

10. Sample class instruction period to be given as part of this presentation.

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