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Develop professional English for meetings, emails, presentations, and everyday workplace success.
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Upper-Intermediate, Advanced, Upper-Advanced
Business English is a four-week afternoon program that teaches the English used in business settings. The course focuses on listening, speaking, and writing, and covers business vocabulary, useful grammar, collocations, discussions, case studies, and business etiquette. Students create business proposals and sales pitches, draft memos, and take part in mock interviews. By the end of the course, students have a wider workplace vocabulary and a better understanding of what employers expect.
Sample topics:
• Cover letters
• Managing people and projects
• Social media marketing
• Fair trade or free trade?
• Information systems and communication
• Dealing with objections
• Negotiating
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
• Use business vocabulary with greater fluency and clearer pronunciation
• Understand business etiquette and what employers expect in the workplace
• Communicate effectively with clients, coworkers, and other businesses
• Write professional memos and letters
• Deliver sales pitches and presentations and respond to questions
• Pair and group work
• Role-plays
• Mock interviews
• Grammar and vocabulary lessons
• Group and individual presentations
• Unit review quizzes
• Sales pitches with Q&A
• Memo and letter writing
As an elective, this class has no formal grade or evaluation. Students receive daily feedback, as well as feedback on their presentations, assignments, and review quizzes. The class supplements students' main program by building vocabulary, fluency, pronunciation, and knowledge of business practices.
Regular attendance is essential to success in this class. Students who miss more than 3 days per session will find it very difficult to keep up.
• Handouts provided by the teacher for in-class work
• Media and materials for creating promotions and presentations
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Discuss a business topic, vocabulary, brainstorming
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Break
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Discussion and critical thinking, podcast or case study