W5: Vocabulary blog

For today's class, we're going to learn five key terms in Ch5: Niche marketing, trademark, royalty fee, synergy, and franchising.

Here are the steps to follow:

Niche

1.      What is the pronunciation of niche?

2.      What does niche mean?

3.      Find an example of a corporation's niche market. (PS: You can start with looking into the sample corporation that you gave last week about business ethics.)

Trademark

1.      What does trademark mean?

2.      Find a trademark of a corporation.

3.      What do you think the trademark tells you about the characteristics of the corporation?

4.      Make a sentence of trademark.

Royalty fee

1.      What does royalty mean?

2.      What does royalty fee mean?

3.      Royalty and loyalty look similar. What does loyalty mean?

4.      What is the pronunciation of royalty and loyalty?

5.      Make a sentence of royalty fee.

Synergy

1.      What is the pronunciation of synergy?

2.      What does synergy mean?

3.      Find three synonyms of synergy.

4.      Make a sentence of synergy.

Franchising

1.      What is the pronunciation of franchising?

2.      Pay attention to the pronunciation in the online audio-dictionary. Compare your pronunciation with the pronunciation in the audio-dictionary. Are they the same or different?

3.      What is the verb of franchising? What does it mean?

4.      What does franchiser and franchisee mean?

5.      Make a sentence of franchising.

Online resources:

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Cambridge Dictionaries Online: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

Invest words. com: http://www.investorwords.com/

Respond to TWO students’ blogs.

You will respond based on the following rules:

1.      If your classmates leave a comment on your blog and ask for your help, please help them by answering their questions.

2.      Does the student answer all the questions above?

3.      If not, help her/him finish her/his vocab blog based on what you have already known.

4.      Check the definitions of the key terms. Are they similar to yours? If not, discuss with the student by leaving a comment on her/his blog and decide which definition is correct.

Before you leave:

1. Send the vocab self-evaluation form to me

2. Leave two comments based on the rules mentioned above. 
3. Respond to your fellow students' comments and revise your blog if need be. 

PS: If you haven't finished writing the blog, finish it by the end of Tuesday. If you haven't commented on two students' blogs, do it by the end of Wednesday. Students who do not finish writing the blog before the deadlines will be deducted one point from the FINAL GRAD.

Designated responder:
Nui: Pim and Pik
Eye: Ton and First
Mew: Num and Nui
Pat: Pik and First
Ton: Pim, Eye 
First: Ton, Nui, Num
Pim: Eye, Mew
Pik: Pat, Mew
Num: Pat, Eye

W4: Vocabulary blog

For today's class, we're going to learn five key terms in Ch4: consumerism, conservation, recycling, business ethics, and personal ethic.

Here are the steps to follow:

1.     What does consumer mean?

2.     What does consumerism mean?

3.     What does conservation mean?

4.     What is the verb of conservation? What does the verb of conservation mean?

5.     What does recycling mean?

6.     Recycling can be parted as “re” + “cycling”. What does “re” mean? Can you give three words which have the same word structure; that is, “re” + “X”? What do those three words mean?

7.     What does ethic/ethics mean?

8.     What do business ethics mean? Give one anecdote about business ethics.

9.     What does personal ethic mean? Give three examples of your personal ethic. 

Online resources:

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Cambridge Dictionaries Online: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

Invest words. com: http://www.investorwords.com/

Respond to TWO students’ blogs. This week, we are going to try a new way of responding. Look into the bottom and find out the students' blogs that you have to respond to. Your job is to make sure the students answer the 9 points above appropriately. When you check their blogs, you’re reviewing and reorganizing what you have learned in today’s online search. In other words, checking your fellow students’ blogs helps not only them but also you. Do not just leave a comment without thoughtfully reading the blogs. You will respond based on the following rules:

1. Does the student answer the 9 points above?

2. If not, help her/him finish her/his vocab blog based on what you have already known.

3. Check the definitions of the key terms. Are they similar to yours? If not, discuss with the student by leaving a comment on her/his blog and decide which definition is correct.

4. What do you think about the student’s personal ethic? Do you agree or disagree? Why?

Before you leave:

1. Send the vocab self-evaluation form to me

2. Leave two comments based on the rules mentioned above. 
3. Respond to your fellow students' comments and revise your blog if needed be. 

PS: If you haven't finished writing the blog, finish it by the end of Wednesday. If you haven't commented on two students' blogs, do it by the end of Thursday. 

Designated responder:
Nui: Pim and Pik
Eye: Ton and First
Mew: Num and Nui
Pat: Pik and First
Ton: Pim, Eye 
First: Ton, Nui, Num
Pim: Eye, Mew
Pik: Pat, Mew
Num: Pat, Eye

W3: Vocabulary blog

 

W3: Vocab blog

For today's class, we're going to learn five key terms in Ch3: articles of incorporation, corporate charter, joint venture, C corporation, and S corporation. If the information you find online is too long, summarize it.

Here are the steps to follow:

1.      What does article mean?

2.      What does articles of incorporation mean? Can you find a picture of articles of incorporation either in English or in Thai?

3.      What does charter mean? Can you find ONE synonym of charter?

4.      What does corporate charter mean?

5.      What does venture mean?

6.      What does joint venture mean?

7.      What does C corporation?

8.      What does S corporation? Can you use one sentence to describe the difference between C corporation and S corporation?

9.      Make a sentence of each key term.

Online resources:

Thesaurus.com: http://thesaurus.com/ (Synonyms)

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Cambridge Dictionaries Online: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

Invest words. com: http://www.investorwords.com/

Respond to TWO students’ blogs. Your job is to make sure the students answer the 9 points above appropriately. When you check their blogs, you’re reviewing and reorganizing what you have learned in today’s online search. In other words, checking your fellow students’ blogs helps not only them but also you. Do not just leave a comment without thoughtfully reading the blogs. You will respond based on the following rules:

1.      Does the student answer the 9 points above?

2.      If not, help her/him finish her/his vocab blog based on what you have already known.

3.      Check the definitions of the key terms. Are they similar to yours? If not, discuss with the student by leaving a comment on her/his blog and decide which definition is correct.

4.      Check the sentences that the student makes. Are the sentences clearly to you? If not, help her/him revise the sentences to make it understandable.

Before you leave:

1.      Send the vocab self-evaluation form to me

2.      Leave two comments based on the rules mentioned above.

W2: Vocab Self-evaluation

For today's class, we're going to learn four key terms in Ch2: estate planning, family limited partnership, buy-sell agreement, and living trust. Our agenda today is as follows:
1. Fill out the W2 vocabulary self-evaluation form (download from your email)
2. After completing the evaluation form, you may have had a sense of how much you know about the four key terms. The next step is to search online to fill in the missing information about the four key terms. 
3. Here are some steps for you to write your own vocabulary blog:
(1) What is the meaning of "estate"? 
(2) What is "estate planning"? (What kind of things are included for estate planning?)
(3) What is "family limited partnership"? (Why is it important for the small business?)
(4) What is "buy-sell agreement"? (In what situations, is "buy-sell agreement" needed?)
(5) What is "living trust"? (What is the difference between a living trust and a will?)
4. After you write up your vocabulary blog, go to at least two fellow students' blogs to leave your comments. Here are some tips for you when you leave the comments:
(1) Do they give correct information?
(2) Do they provide any pictures, videos, articles, or links that help me understand the meaning of the word?
(3) Do they provide any synonyms and/or antonyms that help me understand the meaning of the word? 
5. If you finish all the four steps above, CONGRATULATIONS!!


For your references: 
Online dictionaries
1. Cambridge dictionaries online: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ 
2. Merriam-Webster: http://www.merriam-webster.com/ 

Online resources: 
1. Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page  
 2. InvestorWords.com: http://www.investorwords.com/ (a website for business knowledge) 

Other online resources: 

Living Trust FAQ:  http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/living-trust-faq-29036.html 

PS: You're welcome to find other online resources to write up your vocabulary blog. If you want to recommend any online websites, post a new comment right below this blog. I will add your recommended online websites to our course blog next time : )