Business English Course | Study English with UIC London

ABOUT THE COURSE
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Max students per class	14
Hours per week	15 hours per week (15 x 60 minutes);
Start dates	Start any Monday (the school is closed for 2 weeks over Christmas and courses start on Tuesdays if the Monday is a public holdiay)
Levels	Intermediate to Advanced levels. Advanced = CAE/ielts 6.0. If your level is higher than this please check with us before you book.
Class times	This course is held in the afternoon from 13.40 - 17.00, Monday-Friday

The Business English class involves practice in speaking skills (e.g. telephone language, negotiations, presentations), and writing (e.g. reports, e-mails and letters) as well as listening and reading comprehension using newspaper and television reports, and business English materials. It is designed to help two kinds of students.

a. Professionals who need to improve their English to reach the next position in their career
b. People who are studying Economics or Business Administration related subjects and want to improve their English to find a good job.

This course runs in the afternoon but can be combined with English classes in the morning and will make another of our courses - either Business English Standard Plus or Business English Intensive. The course can also be combined with 1:1 lessons - 3 a week in Business English Standard plus 3 or 5 lessons a week in Business English Standard plus 5.

We are also the only school in the world ever to win both the Star Award (voted on by travel agents world wide) and the British Council Award for Innovation in language teaching.

The Business English classes are for students at an intermediate level and above, who would like to develop their use of English in a business environment. As English is the language of international communication, the Business English classes aim to introduce the students to a wide range of appropriate terminology and functional language so that they can operate confidently in an office environment. By working with authentic tasks and role-play situations, the students will develop their business skills to inclulde telephoning, negotiating, selling, interpreting financial documents, writing business correspondence and giving presentations.

Areas covered during the course will include:

Grammar

Review
Revise

Vocabulary

Skills

Tenses is/are to be (formal arrangements) about to / on the point of / be due to
Past tenses: unfulfilled past was going to / was thinking of / was about to / was to have
Inversions: never/rarely/seldom/scarcely/no sooner had/only/not until/little does, so/such
Emphatic words / expressions
modals eg should/ought to
Conditionals
Unreal tenses and subjunctives
Passives
Ellipsis and substitution
Homophones
Loan words
Idiomatic expressions
Proverbs
Euphemisms

All basic tenses
Relative clauses
Comparatives
Prepositions
Phrasal verbs
make/do
Infinitive + ing
linking words eg accordingly, in contrast, on the contrary
verb + preposition collocations (especially business related)
Pronunciation

Newspaper / journal headlines
USA/UK differences
Cliches
Marketing / Sales
Finance / Banking
Human resources
information technology
Law / legal
Office / Admin
Topic related vocabulary eg from articles / newspapers / business journals

Body language
Use of register

Writing: Information requests; action requests; information presentation; initiating a course of action; persuasion techniques; expressing dissatisfaction; putting forward proposals; controlled note-taking; presentations; correspondence

Reading: proof reading; structure (omission and deletion); spelling (business lexis); amending, deleting and adding informaiton to texts; adding paragraph headings

Listening: following instructions; questionnaire feedback; record completion; note taking; specific information; labelling/amending diagrams

Speaking: greetings; telephoning; giving factual information; role play; describing / explaining; expanding on notes; mini presentations; expressing views/opinions/socialising

We have classes at many different levels from Elementary through to Advanced. We make sure you are in the right class from the beginning and spend some time on your first day both testing you and talking to you about your aims. Then we can make sure you go to the right class. The level test is grammar, writing and spoken to give us the best idea of your different skills.

You will be given regular tests and tutorials in your class and when the time is right you will move to the next level. There are different ways of measuring progress and predicting where you will be in a certain number of weeks, almost all of our students make faster progress than the targets. Our exam pass rate is above the national average as well. If you would like more information about how much progress you can expect please just ask us.

Learning a language is in many ways just like learning anything, it is best done if you have a teacher who has the experience, skills and resources to help you. At UIC we have the experience to help you achieve your goals - the teachers who work on these courses have expoerience both as teachers and as teacher trainers and can help you continue with your professional development.

UIC is a language school in the centre of London. As well as English we also teach 10 other languages to around 400 people a week. We are accredited by the British Council and ISI (the private school equivalent of OFSTED) and all the languages we teach are inspected. We are also an award winning school, we are the only language school in the world to have won both of the major awards - the STAR Language School in Europe (voted on by travel agents worldwide) and the British Council ELTon award for innovation in English Language Teaching.

So, great location, award winning, accredited and inspected, and many years of successful language learning experience.

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