Business English MACO lesson 4

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Business English MACO, lesson 4

Structure

of your damage control plan

Did you bring the structure of your damage control plan to class?

Yes

No

Only half of it

Next step

Connect structure with sources

No structure?

Homework not done?

Separate yourself and make it. Now!

Catch up on the next assignment later (after class)

Substantiate

"The weather will be agreeable tomorrow."

• vague & subjective

According to AccuWeather, the temperature will be 20 degrees at noon tomorrow, and it will be dry and sunny (AccuWeather, s.d.). Therefore, the weather will be agreeable.

• substantiated with a source, in APA-style

Same example in a structure

Agreeable weather

• 20 degrees (AccuWeather)
• dry and sunny (AccuWeather)

It takes space, doesn't it?

Indeed, if you substantiate what you say, you need to use more words.

However, it is an academically responsible and therefore required practice.

Some questions for you

Can I use the same source in different paragraphs in my damage control plan?

1. Yes
2. No

Can I use more than five articles to substantiate my facts and figures?

1. Yes
2. No

Number of sources

You can use more than five sources, as long as you reference them correctly, and add a bibliography.

You only need to summarise five articles.

Assignment - 35 minutes

• Define which facts & figures you need to support your arguments
• Define which sources you will use to substantiate these facts and figures
• NOTE 1: you need to use the five articles you will summarise.
• NOTE 2: you can use more sources. Just make sure everything is referenced APA-style. 

Work on your summaries if you're done

Grammar - conditional phrases

• Often using 'if' 
• Or 'if' could have been used
• Always about cause and effect: if this, then that. 
• Mostly with will/would, but also may/might, can/could etc.

Remember?

Never use 'will' or 'would' in the clause that contains 'if'!

1. Fact/certainty:
If you study, you will pass your exams.
2. Uncertainty:

If you studied, you would pass your exams.
3. Too late

If you had studied, you would have passed your exams.

Over to you now!

If Johnson .....(be+not) injured when we needed him most, it would have been different.

We ...(beat) the other team if Johnson had been fit.

If Mike was here, he .....(know) what to do.

If I ......(have) my camera, I could take a photo.

If you fail your driving test, you ......(be) able to take it again next month.

Nobody will want to do any work tomorrow if the party ......(go) on all night.

If I want to go to the match tomorrow, I ....(have) to leave work early.

The effects might be mitigated if these measures .....(implement).

Note the form

The effects might be mitigated if these measures were implemented.

'were implemented' = past tense (past simple) - in the passive form

If this was a true statement, it ....(spell) disaster.

There would have been more harm done if these measures ....(last) for much longer.

If the effects ....(mitigate), the damage to the economy will lessen.

Feedback on summary

Team up with someone to give each other peer feedback.

Use the form "Peer feedback on summary".

Some questions...

Can I use the same articles as a classmate?

1. Yes
2. No

Can I write the summary together with a classmate - that is, if we share the same article?

1. Yes
2. No

Any questions about the summaries?

Do you have feedback for me about this lesson?

Homework

1. Summarise the other articles. Bring at least two summaries to class that have not been reviewed by a peer yet.

2. Perfect your structure and its references to your sources. Bring to class.

3.Revise the conditionals if you think today's test results were unsatisfactory

Tip: find exercises on the internet.  A good string would be: English grammar B2 conditionals exercise/practise/practice