Sunday 11 March 2012

Corporatese Exam

“Our proactive reengineering initiative for training is going to be championed by our best-of-breed service partners, whose experiential…”
One of my students, who works at a multinational company, gets emails like this all the time. She brings them in, I put them on the whiteboard, and we go through them line-by-line, trying to figure out what the hell her boss meant.

Said multinational is paying for the lessons, and they asked me to set an end of year exam. I wanted to make it a test of the English they actually use so, for this student, I based her test on a genuine corporate email that came my way. How would you do?