Business English

Beginners Level

Key learning points:

Module 1:

• Introduce yourself and others at work
• Say goodbye to colleagues
• Talk about different business departments
• Describe your job and responsibilities using the present simple

Module 2:

• Read and understand job advertisements
• Describe your skills using action verbs in the past simple
• Write a resume
• Leave and take messages politely

Module 3:

• Use telephoning vocabulary
• Ask for repetition, clarification and spelling on the telephone
• Learn some common job interview vocabulary, questions and answers
• Interview for a job

Module 4:

• Say and write numbers and prices
• Show understanding towards your customers and suppliers on the phone
• Ask for payment
• Practice common consonant sounds
• Use stress words correctly
• Use intonation to sound friendly

 
 
Intermediate Level

Key learning points:

Module 1:

• Use new vocabulary to make and change business appointments
• Ask for, accept and reject meeting times
• Make formal and informal suggestions to co-workers and bosses
• Use tourism and hospitality vocabulary

Module 2:

• Use travel vocabulary from the us and uk
• Ask questions at the station, hotel and airport
• Compare products and services using comparatives and superlatives
• Talk about big and small differences

Module 3:

• Use new vocabulary when talking to people in hr
• Talk about your future career using ‘will’ and ‘going to’
• Describe salespeople and their techniques
• Talk about marketing

Module 4:

• Identify a business’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
• Write a business report
• Use intonation with questions and to sound polite
• Stress words in sentences
• Pronounce consonant sounds

 
 
Advanced Level

Key learning points:

Module 1:

• Use new vocabulary to discuss international trade
• Talk about changing and continuing situations using ‘still’, ‘yet’, ‘already’, ‘any more’ and ‘no longer’
• Connect people and deal with common problems on the telephone

Module 2:

• Use new vocabulary to help you make long distance calls
• Describe successful teams
• Use phrasal verbs to talk about and to teammates
• Offer, refuse and accept help from your colleagues
• Use new vocabulary to talk about modern management

Module 3:

• Get people to do things by building rapport and making polite requests
• Agree and disagree politely
• Negotiate deals using 1st and 2nd conditionals
• Learn security vocabulary
• Review passives

Module 4:

• Learn vocabulary for placing and filling orders
• Write a fax
• Stress phrasal verbs
• Use linking sounds
• Stress words in sentences