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Teaching Business English
Resources
The world wide web is a great place to add depth to your learning, and we believe that the best students will read around the topics to improve their understanding. To help you with this, we have scoured the web to give you a list of the best links out there for each module.
Some business English FAQs
Teaching English for business: career advice
What are the advantages of becoming a Business English teacher? Who can become a successful Business English teacher? Why is your role in a Business English classroom different from that in a General English classroom? Brenda Townsend Hall, PhD answers these questions.
Student needs and motivations
Teaching approaches: needs analysis
An essay with lesson plans and worksheets to help you carry out needs analysis in your Business English class.
Techniques of teaching Business English
Business handouts
Some worksheets, activities and roleplay ideas for Business classes.
15 most fun Business English lessons
Ideas for how to liven up your business classes.
Using case studies in teaching Business English
The paper reflects on the types of case studies available to language learners and teachers and suggests how these case studies can be exploited to maximise student talking time in the language classroom.
Business vocabulary exercises
An excellent collection of business vocabulary and communication exercises.
Phrasal verbs
Lots of phrasal verbs to teach your students – with definitions, examples and exercises.
Business collocations
15 online exercises to practice collocations.
BBC World business news
Latest business news, which you can use as reading material in your classes. Video and audio news to help develop students’ listening skills, including one-minute world news video summaries updated 24 hours a day.
FT business news
Latest business news headlines from Financial Times.
Cross-cultural communication: business rules
Business English and cross-cultural problems
A teacher shares her experiences of dealing with cross-cultural issues in a business class.
Business lesson planning
Business English lessons
A collection of business lesson outlines for different levels of learner.
Lessons based on texts
Sequences for Business English classes based on a series of news articles – scores of warm-up activities, pre-reading/listening, while-reading/listening and post-reading/listening exercises, topics for discussion, essays and homework ideas. While you are unlikely to use all of these with a single class of students, this is a fantastic resource to draw upon. Includes simplified versions of authentic texts for lower levels.
Teaching specific skills
Business English speaking skills
A wide range or activities and approaches from the excellent esl.about.com site.
Business English podcasts
Podcasts on current issues in the business world along with activities to develop students' listening skills.
How to teach Business English using the Internet
Ideas for developing students' reading and writing skills.
Business English reading
Categorised links to Business English reading materials.
Business English letters
Useful formulaic language for writing letters and emails.
Resources
The world wide web is a great place to add depth to your learning, and we believe that the best students will read around the topics to improve their understanding. To help you with this, we have scoured the web to give you a list of the best links out there for each module.
Some business English FAQs
Teaching English for business: career advice
What are the advantages of becoming a Business English teacher? Who can become a successful Business English teacher? Why is your role in a Business English classroom different from that in a General English classroom? Brenda Townsend Hall, PhD answers these questions.
Student needs and motivations
Teaching approaches: needs analysis
An essay with lesson plans and worksheets to help you carry out needs analysis in your Business English class.
Techniques of teaching Business English
Business handouts
Some worksheets, activities and roleplay ideas for Business classes.
15 most fun Business English lessons
Ideas for how to liven up your business classes.
Using case studies in teaching Business English
The paper reflects on the types of case studies available to language learners and teachers and suggests how these case studies can be exploited to maximise student talking time in the language classroom.
Business vocabulary exercises
An excellent collection of business vocabulary and communication exercises.
Phrasal verbs
Lots of phrasal verbs to teach your students – with definitions, examples and exercises.
Business collocations
15 online exercises to practice collocations.
BBC World business news
Latest business news, which you can use as reading material in your classes. Video and audio news to help develop students’ listening skills, including one-minute world news video summaries updated 24 hours a day.
FT business news
Latest business news headlines from Financial Times.
Cross-cultural communication: business rules
Business English and cross-cultural problems
A teacher shares her experiences of dealing with cross-cultural issues in a business class.
Business lesson planning
Business English lessons
A collection of business lesson outlines for different levels of learner.
Lessons based on texts
Sequences for Business English classes based on a series of news articles – scores of warm-up activities, pre-reading/listening, while-reading/listening and post-reading/listening exercises, topics for discussion, essays and homework ideas. While you are unlikely to use all of these with a single class of students, this is a fantastic resource to draw upon. Includes simplified versions of authentic texts for lower levels.
Teaching specific skills
Business English speaking skills
A wide range or activities and approaches from the excellent esl.about.com site.
Business English podcasts
Podcasts on current issues in the business world along with activities to develop students' listening skills.
How to teach Business English using the Internet
Ideas for developing students' reading and writing skills.
Business English reading
Categorised links to Business English reading materials.
Business English letters
Useful formulaic language for writing letters and emails.