Basis for Business wins a bronze medal at the Best European Learning Materials Awards

“Today at the Frankfurt Book Fair the Basis for Business series was awarded a bronze medal in the annual Best European Learning Materials Award (BELMA) competition. We’re delighted the series has received this international recognition and would like to take the opportunity to thank you all once again for your excellent contributions to this highly […]

Thank you

Thank you for help with Cornelsen Basis for Business C1: Helmut Burger for being my first sounding board Janan Barksdale for being so patient and thorough and making something that seemed impossible work Carole Eilertson and the advisors Mindy Ehrhart Krull, Andreas Grundtvig, Gabi Hirthe, Marion Karg, Karen Richardson and Miriam Zeh-Glöckler for being constructive, […]

Meg Rutherford: The Beautiful Island

My favorite book, Meg Rutherford’s The Beautiful Island (1969), has been filmed as a video. Can you sight-read it as the text pops up? Language points: isle – island memorials – memory – memorable, memorize / remember towers, cathedrals, palaces, church lone – lonely – alone crippled – cripple – crippling enchantment – enchanting – […]

Writing

I’ve started a book project, which forces me to conceptualize something from the big picture down to the last detail. After poking around for about a month exploring the areas I have found important in my business English classes over the past years, thinking through individual features and refreshing my contact to clients who might […]

S is for Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904-1991) is pronounced “Zeus” in English, like the Greek god. And he is a, if not the, godhead in the pantheon of English literacy. In a hilarious reading of Green Eggs and Ham, the Rev. Jesse Jackson called him a “latter-day saint”. He was a third-generation German-American who grew up […]