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Teaching Business English: Improving a needs analysis
In this article, Ed Pegg talks about how to improve the information that teachers can get from a needs analysis.
Teaching Business English: Improving fluency
In this article, Ed Pegg talks about how to improve the fluency of advanced Business English students.
Extreme makeover
Mark Powell talks about international Business English and its need for an extreme makeover, dicussing alternatives such as Globish and English as a lingua franca.
Unnatural selection
It's a dog-eat-dog world: Mark Powell makes the case for idiomatic evolution.
Sensational sales
Mark Powell challenges the view that the art of selling is attending to the precise language your customers use and matching their sensory preferences by choosing similarly loaded language.
Business first lessons: A lesson plan
A lesson plan and worksheets for use in the first lesson in business English. In this lesson, students play a 'Getting to know you' game and interview each other about their needs for English. The class then cover some language problems that have come up during the lesson.
One-to-one methodology: Ten practical tips for effective lessons
Author and teacher trainer Tim Bowen offers ten practical tips for making one-to-one teaching work.
Business needs analysis: What is a needs analysis?
What is a needs analysis? Alex Case explains all, offering tips on how to design and conduct one for your business English students.
Introduction to Business Top Trumps
Yes, you can play card games in your business-English classroom! We all know that if students enjoy their English lessons and have fun while learning, they are more likely to retain what they have been taught.
Business Top Trumps: Lesson 1: Playing the game
In the first lesson, students get to know the Top Trumps cards, find out about the categories and learn how to play the game.
Business Top Trumps: Lesson 2: Company structure
In the second lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students will complete an organogram of the fictional company, talk about their own company’s structure and invent their own cards.
Business Top Trumps: Lesson 3: Company profile
In the third lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students discuss what kind of company the characters work for, answer questions about the company and write a company profile.
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