Business English
With hundreds of specialized resources dedicated to the world of work, onestopenglish has all you need to help you develop your students' business skills while keeping your classes engaging and thought-provoking.
In this section you'll find materials and lesson plans to get your students prepared for real-work scenarios and introduce them to business-related language and grammar, as well as tips and ideas on a range of teaching techniques used in business English classes. And, if you need to keep your lessons topical, our Business Spotlight series provides the perfect solution: based on articles from Business Spotlight, it covers a range of stimulating professional topics, from honesty in job interviews to the challenges of self-employment – and we add a new one every month!
Latest from Business Spotlight
Business Spotlight: Coca-Cola's biggest mistake
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about Coca-Cola and a far-reaching marketing decision the company made in the 1980s. Teacher’s notes cover strategies for dealing with non-English words. Student activities include exercises on key words, comparing advertisements and writing a case study.
Business Picks
It's all about learning from mistakes and experiences in this month's Business Picks from our editors
Daring to fail
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, features an interview with a businesswoman, Anna Koark, who talks about her experience of insolvency. Teacher’s notes cover strategies for pair and group discussions. Student activities include comprehension exercises about Anne’s career and a discussion about life choices.
Inside Business English
Business skills bank
Practical materials from our expert authors, covering essential business skills such as emailing, telephoning, meetings and presentations.
Business Spotlight
A series of self-contained lesson plans by Karen Richardson that you can use in a business English class with pre-service or in-service students, in one-to-one teaching situations or to focus on a particular topic, business skill or area of business-related language.
Business tasks
In this 20-part series, Adrian Doff provides a comprehensive set of worksheets covering functional language in business, along with business-related grammar practice and language development.
Teaching approaches
Advice for teachers on a range of teaching techniques used in business English (needs analysis, one-to-one teaching, using simulations, etc.). Includes lesson plans and worksheets.
Business Basics
A series of step-by-step lesson plans by Rosemary Richey designed for elementary-level students of Business English.
Business Top Trumps
Looking for ’serious games’ to inject some fun into your business-English classes? We have worked with Winning Moves, creators of the world-famous Top Trumps card game, to develop an original set of Business Top Trumps cards, written by Karen Richardson especially for Business English students! Meet the employees of our fictional company, compare your cards with those of your colleagues – and win!
Working language
In this series, published in conjunction with the Learning English section of the Guardian Weekly, Mark Powell, author of In Company, presents a snapshot of everyday business language.
Business English extra
There is a wealth of material on onestopenglish for teaching Business English. A lot of it is obvious as you’ll find it here, within the Business section of the site. However, there are many other great resources elsewhere on the site which are suitable and relevant for use in your Business English classes. In this article, Adrian Tennant takes a look at some of the other materials available and suggests how they can be integrated into your teaching.
