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| PYBE Testimonial by Nélida Gómez Vila |  |
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| Another PYBE Testimonial by Les Thompson | ||||||
| If you would like to get two other DVBE modules at no cost, we ask you to download the Risk & Reward module. Try it out on a class and give us your evaluation (but only if you liked it). We will need your name, some information about your class, some comments from you and your students, and a picture or two of your class going through the seminar. This offer expires when we get two such evaluations. | ||||||
| PYBE Testimonial | ||||||
| by Nélida Gómez Vila | ||||||
| Preamble:
by Dave Volek PYBE
(Practise Your Business English) was the previous marketing name for
DVBE. |
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| PYBE’s Argentinean coordinator, Nélida Gómez Vila, presented the first PYBE seminar in Latin America in January 1999. Eight students spent three days with an American professor going through six of the eight PYBE modules. | ||||||
| Most
of modules mentioned in this testimonial are not currently for sale on
this website. We believe the four modules currently listed on DVBE are
better suited to introduce the DVBE program in 2004. The modules mentioned
here will be reintroduced shortly. |
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| Nélida had great plans for PYBE in 1999. Unfortunately, the economy of Argentina took a bad turn, and this kind of training was the first expense many companies cut. Nélida is once again setting up DVBE seminars in Buenos Aries. | ||||||
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| The Professor and Susana discussing Stan’s Tents | ||||||
| Susana is an accountant and works for a telecommunications company in Argentina. She wanted to take this seminar because she traveled to Canada last year to take a business course. This was very expensive and she wanted to find a similar course in Argentina to get new training in business without the travel expense. | ||||||
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| Marina,
the Professor, Mario, and Graciela discussing The Computer Store. |
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| Marina
is an interpreter and translator. She was interested in taking a practical
business course to expand her activities. Mario works for an airline as administrative chief. He wanted to improve his Business English skills to gain a better position in other Company. Graciela is an executive secretary in a multinational company. She wanted to improve her Business English. |
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| The Professor engaging the class in business English conversation | ||||||
| The class is discussing the relationship between quality and price, based on the module Stan’s Tents. The Professor stated: "to reduce the prices in some products, it is necessary to reduce the quality; for example, buying less expensive raw material." Apparently, not all the students agreed with him, and this generated some interesting and excellent business English conversation. | ||||||
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Row, left to right: |
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| Pablo works in a public office. He wanted to improve his business English because he is studying economics. | ||||||
| Graciela (in second photo) | ||||||
| Susana (in first photo) | ||||||
| Back
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| Julieta is an accountant and administrative manager in a small graphical arts company. She wanted to know more about International Business because her company is trading with more than 10 countries. | ||||||
| Norma manages a small company with her brothers. She wanted to know practical business English | ||||||
| Clara is an architect. She and her husband (an engineer) have a small construction and engineering company. She manages the administration of the company. | ||||||
| Elisa is an accountant. She is helping to her daughter and her son-in-law with their small company which deals with communications and emerging technology. | ||||||
| Comments from the Students | ||||||
| Susana:
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| "This Seminar was very interesting because in Argentina is not very common to learn the Practical side of the Business. I am used to take Courses here and they are always the same: theory and theory and nothing of practice. I would want to take other Courses more advanced with this method, for example: Business Management Control. It would be a great advantage for a lot of people. | ||||||
| Mario: | ||||||
| "This Seminar was a great newness for me. At first, I thought: I have a good level of English and I have interest in business but really will I be able to understand it? Now, I can say I am very happy: I could practice and better my Business English and understand the American logic to do business" | ||||||
| Graciela: | ||||||
| "I such as Mario thought: What can I get in a seminar like this? And, now I am very happy. I could learn new things. Not only Business English I learned business subjects too, and in my position if I want to follow to maintain it, it is a great advantage" | ||||||
| Pablo: | ||||||
| "I knew some Multinational companies pay expensive courses to Directors and some managers abroad to learn this kind of business English tools, therefore, for me studying Economics it is going to give me some advantages. Apart from that the exercises are very good I could practice my English a lot." | ||||||
| Julieta: | ||||||
| "I needed a Seminar like this. I am working in a company, in which the problems are very similar to those given in the Seminar and I had to confront them without to be very sure. Now, I can do it." | ||||||
| Norma: | ||||||
| "I had to take a Seminar like this. In my company I had to appeal to other persons to solve and make decisions and sometimes not obtaining the best results, now I will be able to do it by myself. | ||||||
| Clara: | ||||||
| "I took this Seminar because I needed to know and practice Financial English. I took a lot of Courses in other Institutes but not one like this, I could learn and practice an effective Financial English with PYBE". | ||||||
| Elisa: | ||||||
| "When
asked to Nélida about the Seminar, she explained me the subjects
to be developed as for example: cash flow, line of credit, rate of return
of an investment, etc. and I could not believe that: Could an Institute
dare to give an English Course with these topics, here in Argentina?
So, I thought: I have a good command of English, I know the terms of Business English but I do not have the practice and precisely I was looking for it: "to take a course to practice my Business and Legal English" because a lot of Americans were going to our company and sometimes I had true dilemmas to understand them. I decided to take the Seminar and I am very happy. And I would wish to follow taking new courses with new subjects to improve my Practical Business English skills". |
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| Marina: | ||||||
| "I really liked this seminar. I learned and practiced a lot of Business English" | ||||||
| Statistics | ||||||
| We presented Three Small Business Problems, Stan's Tents, Company Articles, The Computer Store, The Grocery Store, and The Currency Trader. The total of hours programmed were 24 but I had to add 4 hours (free) in order to discuss more some subjects (legal and negotiation, the financing subjects, for example) . | ||||||
| The Currency Trader was a module a bit confusing for the students at first. Then, they after they got used to it, they managed it very fine. | ||||||
| I took a small evaluation with a “secret ballot” (from 10% to 100 %: 10-30% BAD, 40-60% REGULAR, 70-80% GOOD, 90% VERY GOOD and 100% EXCELLENT ) about their preferences with reference to the modules. The results were: | ||||||
| Three Small Business Problems 100 % (8 votes) | ||||||
| The Computer Store 100 % (8 votes) | ||||||
| The Grocery Store 100 % (8 votes) | ||||||
| Stan's Tents 100 % (6 votes) and 90% (2 votes) | ||||||
| Company Articles 100 % (8 votes) | ||||||
| The Currency Trader 90 % (4 votes) 80 % (4 votes) | ||||||
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| Another PYBE Testimonial | ||||||
| by Les Thompson | ||||||
| While I was teaching EFL in South Korea in 1995 & '96, I was able to test a couple of Dave Volek’s business English (then known as "Practise Your Business English?PYBE) modules to some of my more business oriented students. | ||||||
| THE GROCERY STORE was a great numbers exercise. My students were really challenged to speak and hear clearly the "_____teen" and "______ty" word structures. If they didn’t realize the need for clear communications with these numbers before this exercise, they sure did after. As well, THE GROCERY STORE had some great informal teaching of some basic accounting vocabulary. | ||||||
| THE COMPUTER STORE was an excellent module for upper intermediate students. It gave them some rigorous practise in number expressions and manipulation. But more importantly, it required them to do some mental shifts in business thinking, to recognize that there was no "right" answer, but many different possibilities with some better than others. I even remember one student remarking after we had completed the module that now he understood exactly why his brother's small business had failed! | ||||||
| THE COMPUTER STORE also provided opportunities for discussion about business related fundamental issues, practice in clear presentation of ideas in English, and the chance to present a final understanding of the problem and one group's resolution of it to the whole class. | ||||||
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