All Business / ESP articles – Page 16
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Business Basics: Socializing with clients
In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise small talk about weather, hotels and travel. Exercises include: revising small talk vocabulary, ordering words to make questions, listening to small talk conversations in a business scenario and role-playing.
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Business Basics: Greeting a visitor
In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise greeting a visitor. Exercises include: completing a gap-fill, listening to a conversation, putting the stages of greeting a visitor into the correct order and devising a welcoming procedure.
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Business Spotlight: Low-cost air travel
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the emergence of low-cost travel and South West Airlines.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Get Organised – Opening a hotel
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students must work with a partner to open a new hotel.
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Business Basics: Asking for help around the office
In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise asking for help around the office. Exercises include: completing questions that ask for specific help, matching questions to answers and a role-play where students must ask the correct questions to get help.
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Business Spotlight: Should we ban fracking?
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about whether hydraulic fracturing should be banned.
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Business Spotlight: Wild West of new business
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the emergence of young, innovative companies funded by small investors through crowdfunding sites.
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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 6—Moving premises
In this lesson, students discuss moving premises and make decisions about work-from-home policies and outsourcing.
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English for HR Management: Performance appraisal
Students are introduced to the topic of performance appraisals in this instalment of David Baker’s HR management series.
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Business Basics: Office procedures
In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise helping a new colleague with office procedures. Exercises include: identifying the correct modal verb, listening to an office conversation, giving advice and writing a set of office procedures.
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Business Spotlight: Whistle-blower: Karen Silkwood
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about union activist Karen Silkwood who exposed some scandalous business practices in her place of work.
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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 5—Restructuring
In this lesson, students discuss the financial crisis and use idioms and phrases to discuss a difficult business.
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Business Basics: A job interview
In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise basic language associated with job interviews. Exercises include: identifying vocabulary used in job adverts, listening to a job interview and completing the gaps, creating a CV and role-playing a job interview.
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Business Spotlight: English as the EU language?
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about whether English should be the official language for the European Union (EU).
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Lesson Share: Presenting convincing arguments
Gabrielle Jones wins the lesson share competition with a useful lesson on how to formulate convincing arguments and give structured opinions when debating a topic.
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Training
Students are introduced to the topic of training in this instalment of David Baker’s HR management series. Students read a text about the importance of training and listen to a conversation between two colleagues from a Human Resources department about how job satisfaction can change at different times in life.
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Business Spotlight: Money, money, money
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about money and how attitudes to money differ between cultures and countries. T
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Business Basics: Comparing products and services
In this business lesson, students practise language associated with comparing products and services in a sales context.
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Survival Guide: Surviving the job interview
Here we offer support in preparing for a job interview, including practical advice, questions you wished you’d asked and, importantly, what NOT to say!
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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 4—Situations vacant
In this lesson, students discuss what skills are needed to do a particular job, write CVs and formulate interview questions.