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Aim: students fill in a certificate of origin Procedure: students read the case and their company data so that they can fill in the provided Certificate of Origin of goods that are shipped to South Africa. You can download the materials by clicking HERE Materials: Document with information for the students (their company name, order form...) Declaration of origin form  to fill in (word format so that students can complete it digitally if desired)  Model of declaration for the teacher  You can download the materials by clicking HERE

Aim: students read and complete a bill of lading. Suggested procedure: students can complete the bill of lading before of after they have reviewed the logistics vocabulary for letter B in this blog. Logistics vocabulary for letter B You can download all the materials by clicking HERE Materials: Bill of Lading for the students to complete Models of Bill of Lading for teacher/students Bill of lading glossary Full VICS Guidelines for bill of lading (64 pages) for consultation if necessary You can download all the materials by clicking HERE Thanks to VICS webpage for providing us with all the information we need to complete a bill of Lading. You can access VICS page by clicking HERE

Aim: students listen and watch an ad that contains lots of words for describing people. Suggested procedure: Students watch the ad and note down the words they understand. Students compare their list of words with other students and watch the ad again. You may want to project the text of the ad after the second viewing. Attention!: The  pace is prettty  fast. If your student's level is low you may want to run the text through the teleprompter  before watching the ad  (see below for teleprompter link).  Passive sentences. EXTENSION    For higher levels you can ask the students to describe how the adjective is represented on the ad. For example: The kissers are represented by (a folded cap), the tanned are represented by (a cap located at the top left, representing the sun), those who add are represented by (two bottles which contain each a part of a sentence ) ... Sample language:   fat,skinny, tall, short, near sighted, optimistic, pessimisti...

Aim: students of transport logistics match words and their definitions. Flip chart Activstudio Promethean  Example Suggested procedure : provide students with the words and ask them to define them or try to define them. Most students will guess the meaning of the words. Don't tell your students whether their definitions are correct. Then give them the matching task and give the students the opportunity to compare their guesses with the dictionary definition. Words included in this task (all B- words) : Bespoke , Benchmarking,Back Order,Batch Number ,Bill of Lading (BOL), Backlog Customer,  Barge, Bar Code,  Bill of Lading - Through, Boxcar,  Bill of Material (BOM), Break-Bulk, Buffer Stock You can download the materials from the site by clicking HERE Word Version Example Materials:  Possibility 1: Word document with shuffled words and definitions to photocopy  + key for the teacher  Possibiliy 2/ Promethean flipchart:   A) Active studio Pr...

Aim: students obtain a handout that: clarifies common errors with numbers: when to use hyphen, when to use "and", when to use "nought", "zero", "nil" etc.  provides examples of basic calculations including: addition,  multiplication, subtractions and powers. To download the handout click HERE Suggested procedure:   I have used this handout with my transport logistics students. They have read the examples on the handout and then they have calculated shipping volumes aloud. Basically, students should just say aloud whatever calculations they perform at work. To download the handout click HERE

Aim: students of transport logistics match words and their definitions. Flipchart Activstudio Promethean Version Suggested procedure : provide students with the words and ask them to define them or try to define them. Most students will guess the meaning of the words. Don't tell your students whether their definitions are correct. Then give them the matching task and give the students the opportunity to compare their guesses with the dictionary definition. Words included in this task (all A- words) : Active Stock, Actual Costs, Advanced Shipping Notice (ASN), Authentication Key, Available Inventory, Air Cargo Container, After-Sale Service You can download the materials from the site by clicking HERE Word Version Materials:  Possibility 1: Word document with shuffled words and definitions to photocopy  + key for the teacher  Possibiliy 2/ Promethean flipchart:   A) Active studio Promethean flip chart to project in class. Students can come to the whiteboard and ...