Business English

Business English courses are designed to help students improve with their reading, writing, listening and speaking skills within the context of business and become familiar with the format of the BEC exams. No prior knowledge of business studies is required. Key concepts in business and economics are covered using a variety of reading, speaking, listening and writing activities based on a wide range of materials including current financial newspapers, magazines, radio and television programmes and the internet. Management, production, marketing, finance and macroeconomics are just a few of the topics dealt with in class. Classroom discussion and selected reading and writing assignments as well as grammar and vocabulary practice form the bases of our method, helping students to communicate confidently in an English speaking business environment.

 
 
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