Communicative Language Teaching The aim of this unit • To make you think about communicative approach to teaching languages • To analyse the concept of communicative competence • To reflect upon the communicative teaching techniques What do you have to do in this unit? • Warming up discussions • Input reading • Self-assessment questions (SAQS) • Exploratory tasks • Integrated task Warming up discussion 0 Warm up the concept of a “communicative situation” (situation, in which
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Road King Trucks Introduction Michael Livingston has recently been hired as the CEO of Road King Trucks, Inc. Previously he had been the marketing manager for a large manufacturing company and had established a reputation for identifying new consumer trends. Road King Trucks Inc. is a California-based truck manufacturing company. The company is well known for manufacturing large, heavy-duty trucks at a reasonable cost. One of its greatest achievements is that its trucks can be easily modified
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Due 7/29/14: Question 1: Describe the communication process. How is this impacted where you work? Response: The communication process is divided up into steps that people complete very quickly. A person has an idea and then takes the idea and places into a message, then decides how the idea is going to be communicated (email, conversation, etc.). Once the person with the idea picks the channel of how they will present the idea, they send it. The audience will then receive the message, decode the
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importance of visual communication in a global economy. This essay more specifically addresses and investigates the research question: “to what extent is visual communication becoming a profit enabler for companies acting in a global economy?” The research method used in this essay were questionnaires in which a number of anonymous p¬¬eople from different nations across the five continents (America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania) were asked personal questions about communication and their preferences
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a serial bus interface standard for high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer. * Parallel port is a type of interface found on computers for connecting peripherals. * PS/2 connector is a 6-pin Mini-DIN connector used for connecting some keyboards and mice to a PC compatible computer system. * Serial port is a serial communication physical interface through which information transfers in or out one bit at a time. * Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an
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All of Beamish’s branding is concise and traditional, from leaflet to website. They use a unified set of leaflets, with a… Agreed heritage colour palette And… with the iconic Chauldron wagon all included within their logo. With the use of paid bus adverts and leaflets at local tourist sites, they use this brand positioning to encompass with their main guiding principle off offering local history, by advertising and including the local communities. This use of concise and consecutive branding
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proprietary optical cable interface designed by Intel to connect devices in a peripheral bus. The technology has a high bandwidth at 10 Gbit/s, with the potential to scale to 100 Gbit/s by 2020. Currently in development, Light Peak is being developed as a single universal replacement for current buses such as SCSI, SATA, USB, FireWire, PCI Express and HDMI, in an attempt to reduce the proliferation of ports on contemporary computers. Bus systems such as USB were developed for the same purpose, and successfully
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Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and iSCSI, which build on the earlier SCSI command structure. Since SCSI uses a low-voltage differential (LVD) bus, a method where data is transmitted by comparing the difference in voltage between a pair of wires, its speed and cable lengths are limited. As a result, SCSI is now largely implemented via serial communications like Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), which offers significantly higher performance. HDMI The High Definition Multi Media Interface (HDMI) is
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Compact Disc Digital Audio. Used to plug in microphones or headphones. USB 3.4 - Version of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) standard for computer connectivity. SATA Ports is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives. The IEEE 1394 interface is a serial bus interface standard for high-speed communications. T Flash Memory Card T Flash Memory Card SD Mini Card Port SD Mini Card Port High Speed Port High Speed
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the service. The committee chairman had a powerful personality and was able to overrule any councilor on his committee who tried to intervene in bus service matters.So that, the structure in this circumstance is consider as centralization. After few years, a new transport committee chairman took office and he was determined to make the managers of the bus services as he put it, ‘be accountable to the electorate’. He required every decision the Director wanted to make was fully discussed with him and
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