IBM.302 NEW TIME SCHEDULE – IMPORTANT

Production Operation Management will finally be held only once a week, on a regular semester schedule.

Classes will be on Thursday 14.00 – 16.30.

Team Work Project is still required from all of you,

Thank You,

Aj. Steven

IBM.302 Team Project

Here is the Team Project for Production Operation Management :

Make up 3/4 students teams and turn back a typed report to the instructor.

Reports should be somewhere between 5 to 7 pages, not including a copy of the questionnaire.

Students will prepare a 10 to 15 question survey and interview an appropriate official at either 3 tourist class hotels or 3 tourist class restaurant. They will interview each official about their facility or organization does, or manages, any three or four of the following topics :

- Strategic Positioning             -New Services development              -Managing quality

-Organizing the Business        -Yield Management           -Successful Adoption & Diffusion of New Services

In the report, a list of questions that were asked to the official will be included along with the answers the official gave. There will also be a discussion about how the hotels & restaurants differ in their approaches and which you feel appears to be doing best.

You will also include a double paged report dealing with Service Operation Improvment at sky Lounge Restaurant.

Students will be asked to informally discuss their report with the class.

This Team Project will count for up to 20% of the total Grade.

Aj. Steven

 

IBM 302. Production Operation Management TIME SCHEDULE – Semester 1

POM class will be held intensively : 3 times a week during a month.

First class on Tuesday 10th July at 14.00, room 19-1002.

Then, it will be on : - Monday 16, 23, 30 & 7/07 from 16.30 – 18.30

                               - Wed. 11, 18, 25, 2/07 & 9/07 from 16.30 – 18.30

                               – Thursday 12, 19, 26, 3/07 from 16.30 – 18.30

Final exam : 10/07

We will discuss the class time schedule further on tuesday,

Looking to see you all,

Aj. Steven

 

 

French 2 Vocabulary – 29, May

Bonjour a tous,

Today, we have seen some usefull vocabulary for the Hospitality Industry.

Here is a today’s class overview :

* (un) Restaurant – (un) Serveur

* (un) Bar – (un) Barman 

* (une) Cuisine – (un) Cuisinier

* (une) Table – (une) Chaise – (une) Assiette – (une) Fourchette – (un) Couteau – (un) Verre

* (le) Sel – (le) poivre…..

Absents should be updated on this because it will definitely be a part of the final exam on May, 5th.

La Fete 2008 – Cultural French Festival – June 2nd – 27th 2008

Throughout the month of June, la Fete will bring to the Bangkok Audience a programme dedicated to excellence and to unbridled creative collaboration between traditional and contemporary artistic expressions :

Nearly 30 performances staged at numerous venues in town.

In promoting artistic dialogue between Thailand & France, la Fete meets the objectives of the Alliance Francaise, which has been devoted to fostering cultural exchanges between our two countries.

Check out the website for an overview of the program at : http://www.lafete-bangkok.com/

 

Registration for French 1 – Semester 1

French 1 is starting again this coming semester.

Classes will be held twice a week (monday, tuesday) with Aj. Steven.

It is a great opportunity to learn an european langage, worldwide spoken in the Hospitality Industry.

Registration for French classes will also provided, to the interested ones, the chance to go to France for their internship (Internship program in France).

You will learn about french basics but also french conversation & vocabulary usefull in the hospitality industry.

So, take your chance & register for a langage experience.

Looking to see many of you at the classes,

Aj. Steven 

 

VISA APPLICATION TO FRANCE

21, May

We urgently need to collect every required document for your visa application to France.

A van will be leaving from the campus to the french embassy around 8.30 am on Friday 23.

Every student going to France for Internship are required to come on that day.

 

Any question about the required documents, see Aj. Steven at the Office (checklist available)

Thank You

FRENCH 2 – MID-TERM EXAM

Bonjour,

Let me remind you that Mid-Term exam for French 2 will be held on Thursday 15 in 19-1002 from 16.30 to 18.00.

It will be a written examination including many subjects studied in the class during summer 2 :

-Introduce yrself “je m’appelle …, Je suis thai, Je suis etudiant, J’ai 20 ans, j’ai une soeur, j’aime le sport..”

-Introduce somebody else : ”Il s’appelle Johnny, il est chanteur, il a 55 ans, il est francais…”

-Les verbes “Avoir”, “Etre”, “s’appeller”

-”Qui”, “Quoi”, “Ou”, “Quand”, “Pourquoi”  

-Les pays et les langues : “La France – Le francais”  “La Thailande – le thailandais”  “L’Angleterre – L’anglais”

 

Any question, come to see me before thursday,

Aj. Steven

 

FRENCH 2 – May 13

Bonjour,

Many students missing on that date.

We have seen some important things (included in the mid term exam on thursday 15). Check it out with yr classmates.

-Les metiers

-Les 1eres questions : Qui (Who), Quoi (What), Quand (When), Pourquoi (Why), Ou (Where)…

Today’s last class before the mid-term exam,

Looking to see everybody at 4.30,

Aj. Steven

FRENCH 2 ON MAY,12

Bonjour,

Today, I’ll ask you to present yr homework (presentation of one of yr friend).

Then, we’ll study some more vocabulary :

• Vocabulaire des metiers (docteur, professeur, secretaire, pilote, policier…)
• Verbes associes aux metiers (soigner, enseigner, ecrire, telephoner, piloter, arreter..)

See U in class,

Aj. Steve

FRENCH 2 ON MAY 8, 2008

Course Objectives :

-Vocabulaire des Pays (mots croises)

-P.20 Manuel Alter Ego – Exercices 7,8,9 – La Presentation

Home work : Prepare a nice Presentation (at least 6 sentences) of one of your classmate, using the third person.

Ex: Il/elle s’appelle ….., il/elle est thai(e), il/elle habite a Bangkok, en Thailande,…..

To be presented in the classroom on monday 12 May and will be included in yr grade.

French Presentation Test Today at 4.30 pm

Today’ french communication test will require knowldge about how to introduce yourself in french.

Here are some reminders : “Je m’appelle…” “Je suis thailandais(e)” “J’ai 20 ans” Je parle plusieurs langues : anglais, thai, chinois, francais…” “Je suis etudiant (e) a Siam University”….

You’ll also need to be able to use some basic french verbs such as “Avoir” “Etre” “Parler” “Etudier” “Manger”..

Try to make it an enjoyable communication moment, telling me more about yrself in french..

 

FRENCH 2 : Oral Presentation + Exercices based on basic communication verbs

Presentation : Dire son nom, sa nationalite, son age… “Je m’appelle ……, J’ai 20 ans et je suis etudiant…”

Learn how to use some basic verbs in french : Etre, Avoir, S’appeller, Parler…

Exercices de presentation P.20 Alter Ego