Notes, summaries, assignments, exams, and problems for Primary education

Developing Writing Skills in English

Handwriting

When teaching children to write in English, consider these factors:

• Age
• Familiarity with Roman script

During writing practice, children must focus on several aspects:

• Developing finger control and neatness
• Forming letters correctly
• Understanding sound-spelling relationships in English
• Using capital letters and punctuation appropriately

Using Computers

With the prevalence of computers, children should also learn:

• Proper typing techniques, using all fingers and maintaining good posture
• Common English expressions related to computer and email use

Practicing the Alphabet

For writing and spelling, children need to know letter names and alphabetical order.

Writing the Alphabet

Practice letter shapes through activities... Continue reading "Developing English Writing Skills in Children" »

Essential English Vocabulary for Professionals

Workplace Nouns (English to Spanish)

• Chatterbox: parlanchín
• Deadline: fecha límite
• Knowledge: conocimiento
• Overtime: horas extras
• Privilege: privilegio
• Rise: aumento
• Shift: turno
• Staff: plantilla
• Stuff: cosas
• Team player: jugador de equipo

Key Verbs for Career Development

• Challenge: desafiar
• Commute: viajar diariamente
• Fire: despedir
• Flourish: florecer
• Freelance: autónomo
• Presume: suponer
• Promote: promocionar
• Propose: proponer
• Raise: obtener
• Resign: rendirse (or dimitir/renunciar)
• Switch: cambiar

Professional Adjectives

• Accomplished: realizado
• Assertive: firme
• Conscientious: concienciado
• Devoted: dedicado
• Experienced: experimentado
• Pushy: avasallador
• Reliable: fiable
• Rewarding: reconfortable
• Self-employed: autónomo
• Skilled:

Financial Statement Calculation Flow

The following outlines the calculation of key profitability metrics:

EBITDA Calculation

EBITDA =

• (1) Revenue
• +- (2) Changes in Inventories of Finished Goods and Work in Progress
• + (3+5+9+10) Other Operating Revenue
• - (4) Supplies
• - (6) Personnel Expenses
• - (7) Other Operating Expenses
• +- (11b) Results Arising from Fixed Assets

Operating Result Before Exceptional Items

Operating Result Before Exceptional Items =

• EBITDA
• - (8+11a) Amortization, Depreciation, and Impairment

EBIT Calculation

EBIT =

• Operating Result Before Exceptional Items
• +- (12+14+15+16) Returns on Financial Investments

EBT Calculation

EBT =

• EBIT
• - (13+15) Financial Expenses

Profit/Loss from Ordinary Activities (Net of Tax, Pre-Exceptional)

Profit/Loss from Ordinary

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Welcome to Bella Salon!

Hi Jen, welcome to the Bella Salon family! We are happy to have you as part of our team. On your first day, you will learn how to schedule appointments. Please follow these steps every time you confirm an appointment.

Scheduling Appointments: Step-by-Step

1. First, when you take a call: Ask the client in a friendly voice what day and time they want to book an appointment for. Remember, most of our openings are during the workweek; weekend spaces are very limited.
2. Next, ask the client: Which stylist they would like to see. Always consult the appointment book to see which stylists are available.
3. What if a stylist is completely booked? Ask the client if it would be possible to make the appointment for another date or time. Tell

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I am going to talk about the reasons why people love traveling and the benefits we might get when we travel. Have you been on a trip recently? Let me tell you a bit more about the reasons why people decide to travel. Nowadays, people travel mostly for pleasure. Travelers typically choose destinations where they think they’ll feel relaxed in different ways. Other people instead prefer traveling for deeper, more conscious motivations. For example, if you have lived all your life with the comforts of western society, it’s easy to forget that life is not as easy for everyone around the world. In this case, traveling to a different country might help you put your life in perspective and find relaxation in a different... Continue reading "The Joys and Benefits of Traveling" »

Key Motivational Theories

Theory X and Theory Y

• Theory X: Focuses on physiological needs, safety, and security needs.
• Theory Y: Focuses on love (social) needs, esteem needs, and self-actualization needs.

ERG Theory

• Existence Needs: Encompass physiological and physical safety needs.
• Relatedness Needs: Encompass interpersonal safety, love, and esteem needs.
• Growth Needs: Encompass self-actualization and self-esteem needs.

McClelland's Need Theory

Manifest Needs: Learned or acquired needs that are easily perceived.

• Need for Achievement: Encompasses excellence, competition, challenging goals, persistence, and overcoming difficulties. People with a high need for achievement perform better.
• Need for Power: Concerns the desire to influence others, change people

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Agenda Setting

Agenda setting describes the news media's ability to influence the salience of topics on the public agenda. *Agenda-setting theory* was formally developed by Max McCombs and Donald Shaw in a study on the 1968 American presidential election. When the media focuses on just a few issues and subjects, the public tends to perceive those issues as more important.

Priming

Priming is the process in which the media attend to some issues and not others, thereby altering the standards by which people evaluate election candidates. A number of studies have demonstrated that there is a dimension of powerful media effects that goes beyond agenda-setting.

Framing

Framing is related to the agenda-setting tradition but expands the research by focusing... Continue reading "Understanding Media Influence and Voter Behavior in Elections" »

Scarcity

The limited nature of society’s resources.

Economics

The study of how society manages its scarce resources.

Efficiency

The property of society getting the most it can from its scarce resources.

Equity

The property of distributing economic prosperity fairly among the members of society.

Opportunity Cost

Whatever must be given up to obtain an item.

Marginal Changes

Small, incremental adjustments to a plan of action.

Market Economy

An economy that allocates resources through the decentralized decisions of many firms and households as they interact in markets for goods and services.

Market Failure

A situation in which a market, left on its own, fails to allocate resources efficiently.

Externality

The uncompensated impact of one person’s actions on... Continue reading "Fundamental Economic Terms & Definitions" »