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

Elementary

Tenses

To complete a letter of application.

Swift Books

To read a set of statements and decide if each one is true or false.

Predictions

To make predictions about the students' country and/or company.

Intermediate

Lesson Share: Business writing basics

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

Lesson Share: Wage negotiation

A speaking activity to simulate a wage negotiation.

Lesson Share: Markets and prices

A reading and speaking activity to discuss ways of pricing products.

All Intermediate

Skills by Theme

Business skills bank: Preparing for a first meeting: Part 1

A lesson exploring and reviewing good meetings practice and procedure through brainstorming sessions and interviews.

Business skills bank: Managing international meetings

Sara Helm introduces a new series on meetings skills with an article highlighting some of the challenges faced by participants in multinational and multilingual meetings.

Socializing in English

In this basic business skills lesson by Sara Helm, students use a modal verb wheel to create sentences and practise functional dialogues they can use in a social context.

All Skills by Theme

Pre-Intermediate

Negotiation

To arrange a meeting and negotiate the terms of a contract.

An informal meeting

To discuss possible ways of motivating a sales team.

Diplomacy

To speak diplomatically when negotiating.

All Pre-Intermediate

Upper Intermediate

Emailing 1

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

Lesson Share: Henry Ford

A gap-fill activity to exchange information about the life of Henry Ford and to complete a text by asking questions.

Why did they do that?

A reading and speaking activity to match up questions and answers on a set of cards.

All Upper Intermediate