Day 1 - Booking into the Hotel
Learn the key phrases needed when you first arrive at a hotel. Includes booking in, eating in the bar and ordering room service.
Day 2 - Asking for Directions
How to get around London by asking for directions in the street, at the hotel and in an office.
Day 3 - Phoning the Office
On your third day in London, you must talk to your colleague, your boss and his PA about the meeting you have had.
Day 4 - Eating Out
Day 4 teaches you how to book a table at a restaurant and order food once you get there.
Day 5 - Sightseeing
During your day off, learn about visiting the sights, buying entrance tickets and getting a taxi home.
Day 6 - Signing the Contract
The final day, when you learn the phrases needed when making a deal, signing a contract and saying goodbye.
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| The BizEnglish Survival Kit |
Unit 1 - Company Presentation
Exercises include giving basic facts about your company and explaining how different types of businesses function. You will build your business vocabulary by specifically concentrating on companies and how they are organised.
Unit 2 - False Friends
This unit focuses on the typical mistakes non-native speakers of English make. Exercises on 'make or do?' and 'confusing words' will help you avoid these common mistakes and raise the standard of your Business English.
Unit 3 - Learn My Language, Learn My Culture
Being able to accept and refuse invitations, meet and greet business associates and adopt the right level of politeness are all critical in creating good working relationships. This unit emphasises the cultural use of the English language when doing business.
Unit 4 - On The Telephone
This unit give you the vocabulary needed to make, receive, start and finish calls as well as learning the key expressions you are likely to need when making calls to English-speaking companies.
Unit 5 - Getting To Yes
This unit concentrates on negotiating in English, helping you to understand some of the common expressions often used by native speakers at the negotiating table.
Unit 6 - Writing For Business
Correctly laying out and addressing formal letters is an essential business English skill. This unit provides you with the information and vocabulary needed to write clear and professional business letters in English.
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| English for Special Purposes |
Accountancy
Test, improve and refine your financial English with exercises on a series of topics from ratio analysis to corporate balance sheets. Follow accountant, Andrew Page, as he gets to grips with English and assists one of his major clients in London.
Marketing
Learn the key expressions and vocabulary needed to work in a range of Marketing situations, from examining different types of market research to completing a SWOT analysis.
Project Management
An excellent introduction to the language of Project Management. Take a journey back in time to ancient Egypt and see today’s modern Project Management terminology applied to one of the largest projects ever undertaken – the building of the great pyramids.
Sales
Follow top salesman, Rob Sharpe, through his experience in the Arctic, as he tries to sell ice to the Eskimos. Exercises focus on specific areas of language such as making targets, describing sales trends and offering incentives.
Taxation
This unit covers all the main areas of taxation, including personal taxation, company taxation, international taxation as well as VAT and excise duties.
Law
Legal English has often been referred to as a language in its own right! This unit will enable you to learn key Legal terms in a wide range of situations relating to business law.
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| Grammar Workshop |
The Grammar Workshop has 9 sections helping you to improve your grammar in a business context. Work on your past tense when wording an annual report, focus on the future tense when setting strategic goals and train up your "if" sentences by negotiating and bargaining.
