1. Mr. Niall Douglas

2.  9am-10.15am: Reading and vocab check  10.15am-10.45am: Business Critical Thinking Skills Lecture Plan  10.45am-11am: Sort out groups  11.20am-12.20pm: TOIEC  12.20pm-12.40pm: Business vocab  12.40pm-1.20pm: Group Task check

3.  Marine La Pen and the ongoing rise of the far right in Europe

4.  We are now into our last two weeks together... Boo hoo!  My opinion is that we ought to make best use of it in improving you  I am very glad to report that early this morning (2am!) Carol Springer from Georgia State University gave me permission to use the full Business Critical Thinking Skills syllabus – all eight stages from her 2004 and 2007 papers

5.  This is the continuation of the Safe Night Out (SNO) group task you had in Week 7  Here is what I am proposing: 1. You stay in the groups you were in Week 7 2. We reduce how much readings and vocab you must do (we have two weeks for the European Union) 3. We move to doing a Group Task starting tomorrow (Tuesday) due for Thursday 4. When then have another Group Task starting Thursday due for Monday next week

6.  And then next week, to put you in a very realistic Business environment:  Very small readings and vocab on the EU next week  And a SNO group task each night due for the following morning  This will cover most of the SNO syllabus stages  Each group task is the format as before: (i) Spreadsheet (ii) Presentation and (iii) Report

7.  This wouldn’t affect your TOEIC prep and other English language studies  We normally have two hours of theory and two hours of ELT each day, so this only affects the theory part  I suppose it depends on how much you like “the theory of the European Union”...

8.  Why would this be a good idea? 1. Remember from surveys of Business that Presentation skills are highly lacking in typical Business school graduates 2. Remember that effectively organising oneself and one’s group is also typically highly lacking in graduates 3. And so are critical thinking skills in general...  It will be a lot of work for both me and for you – I have to grade all these each night!  Do you think you can cope with this?

9.  SNO2 due Thursday 7 th April at 11.20am  SNO3 due Monday 11 th April at 11.20am  SNO4 due Tuesday 12 th April at 11.20am  SNO5 due Wednesday 13 th April at 11.20am  SNO6 due Thursday 14 th April at 11.20am

10. 1. Manon, Clemence, Maxime, Romain 2. Louis, Tanguy, Jeremy, Calvin 3. Camille, Leslie, Steven, Rachida 4. Sitra, Anne Cha, Julie, Alexandre, Hubert

11.  Got another TOEIC for you...

12.  Will I ever get through the business vocab, who knows it’s very heavy in my bag...

13.  Explain Tonight’s reading on Greek cheese

14.  Explain this week’s Group Task