Business and ESP

This section contains resources for teaching Business English students as well as specialized resources dedicated to the world of work.

Business News Lessons

Business News Lessons: Meaningless meetings—the best way to get nothing done
Are unnecessary meetings taking up valuable time that could be used doing actual work?
Business News Lessons: Hyper-efficiency is bad business
Can prioritizing hyper-efficiency on businesses have negative consequences for customers and employees?
Business News Lessons: Has relying on tech affected the way we learn?
Does relying on computers and technology affect how we learn and remember new things?

Practical materials from our expert authors, covering essential business skills such as emailing, meetings and presentations.

Students review important elements of good business writing in English, especially for letters and emails.

Students gain an introduction to emailing and practise using the present continuous for arrangements.

A lesson to help students talk about jobs and what they involve and to talk about what people are responsible for in a company.

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Use these interactive materials to deliver an online or face-to-face lesson on using our body language in a professional environment.

This four-part series by David Baker on the subject of Human Resources contains lessons at two levels with step-by-step notes for teachers.