Business English
Business in the media
- The Economist is a leading business
and news magazine. They have some excellent online resources,
including audio and
video. They also have interesting publications
you can buy.
- The BBC’s Business and Money news
service. Go to BBC news and click
"Business"
- Dragons' Den is a popular programme in which
business people make presentations to successful entrepreneurs in
the hope of getting investment for their companies. Go to the
BBC homepage and search for "Dragons'
Den". You could also search YouTube for “Dragons' Den”.
And you can go to BBC iPlayer (online TV &
radio service) and search for programmes.
- The Apprentice is a
reality TV show in which young people compete for a job with a
famous entrepreneur’s company. There is a similar show
where the competitors are teenagers. Again, you could
search YouTube for clips and episodes or search BBC iPlayer (online TV &
radio service) for programmes.
- The Money Programme This is a 30-minute
TV documentary series with a huge archive of online articles.
Go the BBC homepage and then search the site
for "Money Programme". Again, you could search YouTube for
clips and episodes or search BBC iPlayer (online TV &
radio service) for programmes.
- In Business This is
a 30-minute radio documentary series. Again, you could search
YouTube for clips and episodes or search BBC iPlayer (online TV &
radio service) for programmes.
- The Bottom
Line An excellent business discussion programme in which
business leaders talk about management issues. This page also
has nice video clips of individual business leaders giving advice -
and an archive of past radio programmes.
Business vocabulary and grammar books
Learning English for Business - websites & books
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Presentations in English by Erica Williams
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Talking Business is a BBC series which includes language
for presentations, meetings, negotiations and telephoning
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Get That Job is a BBC series focusing on job-hunting, CVs
and interviews
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Welcome to London – a BBC series helping you with language for
hotels, eating out, transport, etc
- The Handy Guide. A BBC series with
short talks summarising the key ideas of business experts including
Bill Gates, Sumantra Goshal, Peter Drucker, Michael Porter and
Kenichi Ohmae. Go to The BBC
Learning English homepage and click "The Handy Guide".
- The
British Council website has some great resources on a wide
range of subjects.
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Oxford University Press has many free online resources.
Although they are related to published books, you can use these
resources free – and it’s no problem if you don’t have the
book.
- Business Spotlight is an
excellent magazine for business English learners. It's
produced in Germany but you can still use it if you don't speak
German! Intermediate level plus.
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Email English by Paul Emmerson An excellent guide to the
way English really is used in business emails. Contains
exercises and answers.
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50 ways to improve your Telephoning and Teleconferencing skills
by Ken Taylor
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Telephone English by John Hughes
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50 ways to improve your Business English using the Internet by
Eric Baber
- Some nice
business English lessons from Pearson Longman, a publisher
- E. L. Easton Business English
online This site has (1) materials to teach you and (2)
Lots of links to other useful pages.
Finding a job
- If you're looking for casual work (in a restaurant, for
example), you can get help from Careers Advice at the Phoenix
Centre near the Students' Union.
- If you're looking for a serious career move, you should still
visit Careers Advice - and you'll find
the CIPD's pages on CVs and interviews helpful.
Get help from Charlie
Charlie Martineau, the Language Support Tutor,
has taught Business English for many years, working with clients
from companies such as Pirelli, GE, Deutsche Bank, Novartis,
Volkswagen, Kuwait Oil Corporation, Smith & Nephew, Nomura and
many others. If you would like to make an appointment, send
an email to languagesupport@yorksj.ac.uk.
Written by Charlie Martineau