Business English

BEC Reading, Writing and Listening

2009-06-28T16:37:00.000-07:00

Job Interview Webquest

I have created a Webquest for us to practise for our BEC exam.

Please follow all the steps in the webquest and be sure to choose the best candidate!!!

Click here to start your webquest . Please bear in mind that you need to request access to view the webquest.

BEC Listening: Job Interview

2009-06-28T16:29:00.000-07:00

Click on Job Interview First Round and focus on the following questions:

* How was the traffic today?
* How long has William been working in this current job?
* What kind of business does he mainly handle?
* How does William describe his personality?
* What does he mean by a participatory and leadership style?

Let´s start with Grammar

2008-01-06T16:10:00.000-08:00

Today we will review many of the things we learned last year.

OWL
E.L.Easton
ESL
Virtual Language Center
English Zone
English Page

All these websites can be consulted throughout the year.

As you know we will be using Delicious to register our new vocabulary. You can also check your understanding using flashcards. Take look at what Mary and Fer learned in two classes.

Happy learning!!

Learning English with videos

2007-10-04T17:17:00.000-07:00

Dear Students,

For today I added three different videos for each one of you. Happy learning!!!

Find the mistakes in the following cartoon.

What happened to this company?
Which other cases of corruption do you know?

Listening

2007-09-12T20:13:00.000-07:00

Today we will take a look at several different sites where you can improve your listening Skills.

Breaking News English This article is about a Paris-London train that sets rail speed record.

Story Archive Here you will find several news from CNN

Movies Sounds and Clips In this site you listen to part of a movie and then you have to fill in the gap

Happy watching and listening!!!

The Office

2007-09-10T17:57:00.000-07:00

Dear Students,

I´m so glad that finally we are able to use Internet in our classes. Let´s take a look at what the The Office from the BBC offers.

Business English

2007-06-19T14:14:00.000-07:00

Today we will take a look at many different sites where you can improve your Business English skills. Take a look at all the links below and start using all the new vocabulary.

Happy Business learning!!!

Business English Exercises

BBC Learning Business English

Business Quizzes

Business English Links for ESL

The Basic of Business English

Business English

Business English Vocabulary

Grammar from scratch

2007-05-29T11:15:00.000-07:00

There are many different ways of learning grammar. Let´s try learning through games. The idea of this post is to take a quick review of your grammar and at the same time have fun learning.

Take a look at many of the links below and enjoy your learning. All the links where taken from Libardo g blog

Flash quizzes
Gammar quizzes
Verb quizzes
ESL Blues
English test.net
Interactive grammar
English Grammar
Grammar
Verb tenses
Grammar Bytes
Interactive quizzes
Online learning
Grammar lessons
Grammar Now
English Quizzes
Road to Grammar
Animated grammar

English Feed

2007-03-20T06:34:00.000-07:00

English Feed is a weekly podcast including review and listening on exercises on important grammar and vocabulary subjects. It's an ideal podcast for beginning to intermediate level students to study basic structures like phrasal verbs, past forms, modals, listening comprehension quizzes and more.

English Feed also includes the transcript, grammar resources and exercises included in each podcast.

Writing Emails

2007-02-04T14:30:00.000-08:00

Students keep on asking me how to write emails. Well after investigating for a while I think I´m able to help you here.
The basic rule is: “brevity is the soul of wit” this means that being concise is the best option. Or just remember this rule: “Keep it nice short and sweet”.

Read about 10 tips for writing business emails.
Email writing tips

Email samples:
Writing Business Letters
Fun Stuff

Take a look at them and tell me what you think.

Giving Presentations

2007-02-01T04:21:00.000-08:00

Most students panic when they have to give presentations in front of an audience. My suggestion is to first study some of the fixed expressions used whenever you have to give a presentation.

Below you will find a variety of links on how to give an effective presentation.

English Club ;Gives you the vocabulary to use in every step: Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language, The presentation, Review, Test.

Better English :Improve your presentations by taking a look at grammar exercises related with presentations.

Learn English Today: Useful Phrases, Presentation Vocabulary and Presentation Basics.

Giving oral presentations: The homework task in this site contains more than 9 hours of self-study. It´s very complete.

Hello World

2007-01-31T06:16:00.000-08:00

The idea of this Blog is to help all busy students and teachers to find a place where they can constantly look for information related to Business issues.

I hope you find this place your place of constant knowledge and learning.

Happy journey to all of us!!

Regards

Jennifer