Introduction
Sweden businessman wants to invest money into the development of restaurant business in Ukraine. He announced a tender for the project. You could help him to settle ant run business here. But the food industry is a high-risk business proposition. According to an often quoted study, 60% of businesses fail in the first year. You need to calculate all the problems that may occur while working with the project. You can help increase your chance of success by understanding the problems restaurants face and developing strategies to combat these issues. The most commom problems are:
- the menu;
- customer service;
- a unigue selling point;
- management;
- hiring and training staff;
- marketing;
- capital.
http://restaurantengine.com/common-problems-restaurants-face/
PART II
According to the researches there are three most crucial and actual problems connected with settling and running a restaurant business. You need to investigate them more profoundly to be able to win the tender. Your researches in the sphere will also be beneficial for the development of Ukrainian economy and international investment activity.
The roles to perform:
- economic statistician (concerns the collection, processing, compilation, dissemination, and analysis of economic data)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_statistics
- enterprenuer (develops a business model, acquires the human and other required resources, and is fully responsible for its success or failure)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneurship
- economics freelancer (examines the inner workings of the economy of interest to their organizations and makes predictions and recommendations based on that)
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-an-economist.htm
Task
Each of the specialists should cover the following issues:
- the definition of a restaurant problem;
- ecomonic policy concerning the problem;
- strategies to cope with the problem.
Lexical areas:
Unit 6 D of Straightforward Pre-Intermediate
Grammar areas:
Comparatives and Superlatives (Unit 6 D of Straightforward Pre-Intermediate).
By the end of the Web Quest you will make a PowerPoint Presentation ‘Opening a Restaurant’ reflecting the main points of the problem chosen, which will help you to visualize the solution of the main research question. The main research problem is TO FIND THE WAY TO ATTRACT INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENTS INTO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RESTAURANT BUSINESS IN UKRAINE.
Resources:
http://www.realsimple.com/work-life/work-life-etiquette/sticky-situations/restaurant-etiquette
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/problems-opening-restaurant-4738.html
Process
This is a description of the steps you should go through in accomplishing the task, with links embedded in each step:
To choose a topical problem.
To study general information carefully.
To set up goals.
To choose a communicative role.
To identify the area of activity according to the role chosen.
To analyze the information.
To create the Web Quest.
To achieve goals.
To analyze your activity.
While performing the task of the Web Quest answer the following questions:
- Why is the problem, chosen by you, actual?
- What are the most crucial points of the problem?
- What results do you expect to get after studying the problem? What are the objectives of your research?
- What can be the difficulties of the research? Can they be overwhelmed?
- What are the ways to meet the above objectives? Are these ways satisfactory?
- Can the problem be solved using the results of your activity? Why?
Evaluation
The evaluation describes to the students how their performance will be evaluated, and is often in the form of a scoring rubric. The standards should be fair, clear, consistent, and specific to the tasks set.
Speaking evaluation:
excellent
- the speaker has a good range of vocabulary for matters connected to his/her field and most general topics;
- he/she can vary formulation to avoid frequent repetitions but lexical gaps can still cause hesitation and circumlocution;
- lexical accuracy is generally high though some confusion and incorrect word choice does occur without hindering communication;
- he/she uses a range of complex structures with some flexibility but rarely produces error-free sentences (grammar mistakes persist);
- the speaker is calm, relaxed, keeps eye contact.
good
- the speaker has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some circumlocutions on most topics pertinent to his/her everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work and current events;
- he/she shows good control of elementary vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics or situations;
- he/she produces basic sentence forms with reasonable accuracy; uses a limited range of more complex structures which are quite comprehensible;
- the speaker is a bit nervous, too fast or too slow rate of speaking but in general it doesn’t disturb comprehension.
satisfactory
- the speaker has a sufficient vocabulary to conduct routine everyday transactions including familiar topics and situations;
- he/she has a sufficient vocabulary for the expressing of basic communicative needs/ has a sufficient vocabulary for coping with simple survival needs;
- he/she can control a narrow repertoire dealing with concrete everyday needs;
- he/she produces basic sentence forms with reasonable accuracy; uses a limited range of more complex structures, but these usually contain errors and may cause some comprehension problems.
poor/bad
- the speaker has a basic vocabulary repertoire of isolated words and phrases related to particular concrete situations;
- no descriptor available;
- he/she produces basic sentence forms and some correct simple sentences but subordinate structures are rare; errors are frequent and may lead to misunderstanding.
Conclusion
Suggest ways of doing things differently to improve the lesson. Comment on your performance and Web Quest results answering the questions:
- What were the most actual aspects of the problem you’ve chosen?
- What were the most interesting and relevant parts of the Web-Quest? Why?
- What was the least interesting part of the Web-Quest? Why?
- What was the most difficult part of the Web-Quest? Why?
- What have you learnt while performing the work?
- What aspects of your Web-Quest correlate with the next topic you are to learn?
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