Fifty Ways to Practise Business English: Tips for ESL/EFL Students: Fifty Ways to Practice: Tips for ESL/EFL Teachers
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This is a short, practical guide to improving your ability to read, write, listen to, and speak English in workplace and business situations. The 50 ideas here (and one bonus tip!) give you specific ideas and resources to use and learn from, including links to high-quality, accessible authentic materials.
You do not need to be living in an English-speaking country or be currently taking an English class to use this book. However, students who are already in a class can also use this book to improve their writing more quickly and easily.
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Fifty Ways to Practise Business English - Karen Richardson
Fifty Ways to Practise Business English
Tips for ESL/EFL Students
Karen Richardson
Wayzgoose PressFifty Ways to Practise Business English: Tips for ESL/EFL Students
Copyright © 2023 by Karen Richardson
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the copyright owner.
Edited by Dorothy E. Zemach. Cover design by DJ Rogers.
Published in the United States by Wayzgoose Press.
Contents
How To Use This Book
I. Digital Tools
1. Change the language settings
2. Sign up for business alerts
3. Use free online translation tools
4. Translate with your phone camera
5. Keep track of the weather
6. Use to-do lists
II. Authentic Material
7. Read breaking business news
8. Learn a business word of the day
9. Get the most out of videos
10. Watch TED business talks
11. Go to your company website
12. Watch different versions of business-related TV shows
13. Add to your business cards and email signatures
14. Read, read, read
15. Describe processes and give clear instructions
III. Speaking
16. Practise with an English-speaking partner
17. Set up a regular English lunch or coffee break
18. Talk to yourself
19. Make a video walkthrough of your company
20. Script and film a Why my company is the best
video
21. Make a Welcome to our company
video for visitors from far away
22. Talk around the topic
23. Use fillers
IV. Listening
24. Listen on the move
25. Subscribe to business news podcasts
26. Listen to American English and British English audio and video
27. Listen to business-related audiobooks
28. Practise your listening skills
V. Business Writing
29. Write useful business tips for visitors
30. Let Word do the work
31. Summarise your work calendar
32. Write a magazine profile
33. Identify the key skills for your job
34. Apply for your dream job
35. Write to yourself
VI. Workplace Language
36. Use the language of interests and hobbies for business purposes
37. Try your native language
38. Annotate a photo of your workplace
39. Collect useful standard phrases
40. Collect email hellos and goodbyes
41. Use standard business email phrases
42. Collect words and phrases
43. Record and keep business language while you are out
44. Retell an article using key words
VII. Business Skills
45. Sign up for Continuing Professional Development courses
46. Sign up for a business MOOC
47. Sponsors, sponsorship, and sponsoring
48. Summarise and retell business