Lower Business English

In Unit 1, you will learn to:

• introduce yourself and others at work
• say goodbye to colleagues
• talk about different business departments
• describe your job and responsibilities using the present simple
• read and understand job advertisements
• describe your skills using action verbs in the past simple
• write a resume
• leave and take messages politely
• use telephoning vocabulary
• ask for repetition, clarification and spelling on the telephone
• learn some common job interview vocabulary, questions and answers
• interview for a job
• say and write numbers and prices
• show understanding towards your customers and suppliers on the phone
• ask for payment
• practice common consonant sounds
• use stress words correctly
• use intonation to sound friendly

In Unit 2, you will learn to:

• use new vocabulary to make and change business appointments
• ask for, accept and reject meeting times
• make formal and informal suggestions to co-workers and bosses
• use tourism and hospitality vocabulary
• use travel vocabulary from the US and UK
• ask questions at the station, hotel and airport
• compare products and services using comparatives and superlatives
• talk about big and small differences
• use new vocabulary when talking to people in HR
• talk about your future career using 'will' and 'going to'
• describe salespeople and their techniques
• talk about marketing
• identify a businesses strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
• write a business report
• use intonation with questions and to sound polite
• stress words in sentences
• pronounce consonant sounds