My main interest this year and since I started teaching in Switzerland is Business English. I teach in banks, companies and professionals in various sectors (real estate, insurance, pharmaceuticals).
I must say I really enjoy these classes and the new turn my teaching is taking, for the reason that I am also learning alongside them!
You can find some ideas on Business English classes in posts I have written on my blog. I have gathered them all on this page for easier finding.
- My Blog Post for ESL/EFL Carnival of Business English and ESP – Teaching Business English in Switzerland: This post is part of Anne Hodgson‘s Blog Carnival for Business English. Here I share ideas that I use in teaching in a corporate environment – or outside of it!
- Word of the Week – From My Adult Classes: This is my first attempt in presenting what I think turned out into a great idea with our classes – it even developed into the main topic of a workshop I gave later on in Zug, Switzerland!
- How Can We Activate Vocabulary and Get Our Students to Use It? – ELTChat Summary: This is a summary I wrote after a great ELTChat talk on vocabulary. Here you can find a lot of ideas you can incorporate into the Business English teaching context – I have found lots of ideas!
- Word of the Week and Other Ideas for Business English Classes – My Workshop for the ETAS SIG Day, September 17, 2011 : This is the presentation of my workshop that I gave on Word of the Week as a main topic, including other subjects.
- (Updated) Word of the Week and Other Ideas for Business English – My Award-Winning Workshop for IATEFL BESIG Summer Symposium, June 2012.
- Problem Solving in Business English: an idea I use very often with my adult students mainly and have extended to other classes, apart from Business English ones.
- Using Advertising in the Business English Classroom: using real commercials to show the power (or lack of it, thereof) of advertising.
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Hi Masashi!
Thanks so much for stopping by – and for the link to your blog!
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Thanks for the ideas, Vicky. Great site you’ve got! If there’s any way we can help you out, shoot me an email: contact@businessenglishlessons.com
Thanks Vicky,
I am a fellow teacher and I have found some great ideas on your blog.
Best wishes,
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Hi, Vicky! I’m a Business English teacher and I’ve been looking for great links to add to my resource. I like the use of advertisements because they are short videos but they have a powerful impact on my business students. It can be a venue for discussion about the ad’s messages.
Hi Cynthia!
Thanks for your comment – I think that the combination of audio and visual in advertisements, as well as the messages they hide or bring out, are truly a great source of discussion, as you mention : )
Just found your blog online, Vicky. Looking forward to reading more of your ideas on teaching business English.
Hi Nathan!
Thanks very much. I will be posting new ideas soon.
Best wishes,
Vicky
Hi, Vicky Loras – I really appreciate this post. This site provides good information.
Hi Vicky.
Just started reading your blog. I’ve taught a few business classes and currently working with an automotive client in Uzbekistan. I hope to find some useful activities I can use from your blog. My most successful activities I’m logging on mine – http://www.awolbusiness.wordpress.com.
Alex
Hi Alex!
Thanks for dropping by – I hope you find some ideas useful. Thank yu so much for your website, which I will go and check out!
Hi Vicky,
Nice collection of links. I’ll have a closer look on them soon. However I mainly teach kids I have some private classes with the parents every now and then.
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much Wilmer! I hope you find them useful.
Best wishes,
Vicky
Hi Vicky,
Great blog! It’s very useful. I just found an interesting site,and I would like to recommend it, you can improve your Business English with different Podcast in the following link.
http://www.100percentlanguages.com/category/podcasts/
Best wishes,
Luisa
Hi Vicky!
Thanks for the informative post, which I’ll be sure to share with our tutors! We’ve been looking into ways of helping our business English students build more points of contact with the language in their daily lives – both at work and at home. Here’s a recent 25-tip post on learning strategies, which I penned for my own teaching blog: https://onlineteachersuk.com/improve-english-for-business-work/
Hope this is of interest.
Best regards,
Alex
Hi Alex!
Many thanks for your comment and fror sharing as well! I hope you all like it. And thank you for sharing your post as well!
Best wishes,
Vicky
Thanks for sharing with us this post.
This is such a great source that you are providing. It’s very easy on the eyes which makes it much more pleasant for me to come.
Thanks for sharing!
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