This course focuses on English for the workplace. The Business English modules develop the skills and extend the vocabulary and grammar you will need to help you communicate in the modern business world.

Our business skills courses will help you improve your :

			listening, through real interviews with business people
			speaking, through role plays and discussions, writing e-mail, memos and summaries
			reading real texts from the business press.

Pre Intermediate Business

			business situations: talking about your company, dealing with problems, visiting a company, describing and comparing
			grammar: information questions, past simple, modal verbs prepositions
			vocabulary: figures, prices, telephone language, financial vocabulary, language for socialising

Intermediate Business

			business situations: management styles, making appointments, discussing probability, mini presentations
			grammar: telephone language, expressing future intentions, language for checking and summarising
			vocabulary: guessing meaning from context, verbs followed by gerunds and infinitives, verb noun–collocations

Upper Intermediate Business

			business situations: taking part in formal and informal meetings, dealing with problems, marketing
			grammar: relative clauses, tenses review, reported speech, conditionals
			vocabulary: processes and operations, vocabulary for business correspondence, language for selling and buying products

40 hours per term

English courses dates 2008-2009
Term one: 13 September 2008 - 28 November 2008
Term two: 11  December 2008 - 4 March 2009
Term three: 16 March 2009 - 8 June 2009
Term four: 29 May 2009 - 31 July 2009
Registration for next year's courses start from 12 May 2008