Business English

Maximise your Business performance in English

What we offer

The Scalby English Centre provides individually tailored Business English Courses to professionals across all business sectors.

The content of every course is adapted and designed to the specific demands of the individual or company. Instead of applying a fixed teaching methodology, we choose to agree with the client the most effective and suitable approach for them. We appreciate that everyone has unique learning objectives and, therefore, we discuss professional requirements and aspirations before the course begins. This ensures you learn as much useful English as possible whatever your length of stay.

Format

All course formats are fully flexible and adaptable, with clients being free to choose the exact content of their course from all the courses we provide. In addition, we offer complete flexibility in terms of course duration and timetabling. Most courses consist of one or two weeks of intensive tuition although longer courses are available on request. Typically each course comprises 25 hours of teaching time per week with 5 hours tuition a day, though if preferred, longer or shorter days are available. If desired, you may wish to combine your Business English course with a social programme of either golf, walking or cycling.

Courses

The courses below have been designed with the following objectives in mind:

• Build confidence and enable effective communication in a business and professional context.
• Be more fluent in English and improve general and social communication skills.
• Develop and improve active use of grammar, range of vocabulary, pronunciation, as well as specific reading, listening and writing skills.
• Learn the specific terminology used in the financial and economic world relevant to you.
• Develop your ability to perform efficiently and competently in a professional environment in English. This includes being able to master the basic business skills you need to perform, such as giving presentations, correspondence, the language of meetings, negotiating, and telephoning.

Courses 1-4 represent some of the most popular courses we offer. For each course we incorporate some specific language skills (see table) which are particularly relevant to each course. In addition we use authentic, up-to-date materials such as newspaper articles, business journals and magazines, company annual reports, television reports and radio broadcasts to further develop and enhance your English level.

Course 1: Presenting

Course 1 examines how to deliver effective presentations and prepare visual aids in English. This includes:

• Planning the structure and theme of the presentation in English
• Opening presentations and introducing the topic
• Linking ideas and connecting arguments
• How to engage the audience and create interest
• Summarising the main points
• Making conclusions
• Handling questions

Course 2: Business Correspondence and Communication

Course 2 deals with all areas of commercial correspondence including:

• Formal and informal correspondence
• Communicating by telephone
• Communicating by email, fax and memos
• Writing business letters
• Report writing
• Writing proposals

Course 3: Meetings

Course 3 examines the language needed for successfully chairing or participating in meetings and discussions in English. This includes:

• Phrases for opening, conducting and closing a meeting
• How to improve spoken fluency and listening skills
• General language needed for engaging and taking part in discussions and debates
• Expressing your point of view clearly

Course 4: Job Applications and Interviews

Course 4 covers the whole job application process from reading a job advertisement to going to an interview. In particular, the course includes:

• Responding to job advertisements and asking for further information
• Writing a well laid out and accurate curriculum vitae / résume
• Writing successful covering letters and letters of application
• How to market and sell yourself as a suitable candidate by using powerful, active and positive language
• Speaking confidently in English at a job interview and answering typical interview questions

In addition to the above 4 courses, we also design Business English courses incorporating the following topics:

• Banking and Finance
• Marketing
• Advertising
• E-Commerce
• Buying and Selling
• Tourism
• The Law and Contracts
• Insurance
• Environmental Management and Sustainability
• Politics
• Socialising and Entertaining

Courses 1-4 all include some specific language skills. Below is a complete list of specially designed, optional language skills which you may like to choose during your course.

* Please note that grammar is integrated into each language skill where appropriate.

The following timetable gives you a flavour of the general one week's Business English course we run. It includes elements from all four courses.

CLICK HERE for sample timetable

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