Приложения для изучения бизнес-английского для ваших занятых студентов

Ваши студенты хотят преуспеть в бизнесе? Они беспокоятся, что им не хватает конкретных знаний для прохождения собеседования? У них, конечно же, есть смартфон или планшет? Тогда не о чем беспокоиться! Одно слово: приложения! Если вашим студентам нужно улучшить свой английский для собеседований, работы в офисе или даже заключения более выгодных сделок, есть приложения, которые смогут […]

19.04.2021

Idioms in business situations

Teaching Business English is a quite thing: choosing materials thoroughly; making up and following an effective plan related to a student’s goals/needs; learning special terms and being aware of constant changes in the business sphere and ready to implement up-to-date information in lessons to make the learning process productive, interesting and fun at the same […]

10.08.2020

Business English for Elementary students: is it possible?

Why do people learn English? There are so many reasons and for business is one of them. As not only Intermediate + students try to be successful, some teachers have to work with low-level learners who want to achieve their goals in business English. Teaching them isn’t that easy. Let’s talk more about the process.  […]

18.07.2020

Writing Business Emails: lesson ideas

Many of you will agree that teaching writing is quite often overlooked in the teaching process. The reasons are that students mostly don’t like writing tasks and we as teachers have trouble finding and adapting the material in a way that is engaging and interesting for the students. However, it is already a well-known fact […]

25.02.2020

How to bring soft skills into the Business classroom

You are teaching Business English, aren’t you? Do you plan to teach Business English? Then, you should know that you are teaching busy people. They can get distracted with some urgent calls, they may come to the lesson feeling exhausted, they may be not focused during the lesson because at work they have some serious […]

24.12.2019

Can you teach Business English if you are not a specialist?

Some people may claim that you cannot teach Business English if you are not a specialist, that you need to understand the jargon and workflow, values and logic of the business process to be able to teach and feel confident. They argue that the confidence level of a teacher is crucial in teaching business professionals; […]

31.10.2019

Advertisements in Business Lessons

Advertising is one of the driving forces in modern business development. Subconsciously, we are under the pressure of advertising campaigns. Nearly all the products that we use, we buy under the influence of TV, radio, online adverts. Advertising can greatly appeal to Business English students. In the given article we will present some practical ideas […]

15.04.2019

Деловой английский для новичков

Деловые люди знают, как вести бизнес, но далеко не всегда их уровень владения английским языком соответствует требованиям деловой жизни. Некоторые преподаватели согласятся, что легче работать по курсу Business English со студентами уровня Intermediate и выше, так как они достаточно свободно разговаривают на английском, обсуждают многие профессиональные и бытовые темы, понимают на слух практически все сказанное […]

09.11.2018

Business case studies

“OK, but for example, our business case…”, “Can we talk about my real-life situation?”, “I’d like to discuss my business scenario”, “Have you heard what happened with company ZZZ? They’re our main competitors! Let’s discuss it today!”, “How do I apply these new words and phrases to the situations that affect my company?” When you […]

25.10.2018

BEC and BULATS

“CEO? Benchmark? Product launch? Line manager? What’s that? I don’t even know! Profit or revenue? How can I teach it? I’m an English teacher, not a Business teacher!” Exactly. Many teachers are afraid of teaching Business English and to more than that — of preparing students for the exams. You are not expected to tell […]

09.10.2018