Business English

Students use question tags to check information and keep a conversation going while networking at a conference, then write a follow-up email to a new contact.

Students use the future continuous to talk about what they'll be doing at times next week, ask polite questions about plans, and write an email arranging a meeting.

Students practise all forms of the passive to describe changes at work, then write a short report for a newsletter.

Students learn how to open, request, chase and close in professional emails, and write a polite but firm chasing email to a supplier.

Students learn to answer common job interview questions, talk positively about their strengths and weaknesses, and structure "Tell me about a time when…" answers with Situation, Task, Action and Result.

Students learn the language of workplace health, safety and absence, explain causes and effects, and write an email to a board recommending improvements.

Students learn precise verbs, adverbs and prepositions for describing trends and figures, practise signposting a presentation, then write a short report on a company's sales.

Students ask and answer future continuous questions to complete a team's diary and find one person who is free for a call at each time.

Students mingle at an imaginary conference, guess facts about other delegates from what they say and check their guesses with question tags.

Students hold a short team meeting, agreeing, disagreeing and interrupting politely, and finish with a decision and two action points.

Students rebuild ten fixed phrases for opening, requesting, chasing, replying and closing in professional emails in a memory card game, then say where in an email each one goes.

Students compare a place before and after a makeover and use present perfect passives to say what has been done.

Students role-play job interviews, answering competency questions with clear STAR stories and presenting their strengths and weaknesses positively.

Students negotiate three business deals diplomatically, using softening, proposals and conditions to reach an agreement both sides can accept.

Students analyse a supermarket chain's absence and accident figures, then plan and present a health and safety improvement plan to the board.

Students complete the stories of six small-business founders by asking about the missing steps and answering with perfect participle clauses.

Students read short sets of figures and choose the precise verb or adverb to describe each trend, explaining why the other word doesn't fit.