Cours d’anglais pour les professionnels - intermédiaire

Describe your work tasks and routines using the present simple, and practice the five core business skills: introductions, small talk, writing emails, telephone English, conference calls, and meetings.

Practice three ways to use English numbers naturally, including decimals and thousands. Master the th sound and currency placement with phrases like my birthday is May 30th.

Avoid errors translating French verb faire by not using make or do for expressions like faire connaissance and faire la queue, and learn project verbs such as start and complete.

compare formal and informal emails by examining email 2's direct, concise style and email 1's longer, polite language; observe informal greeting options and direct questions, and note sign-offs like regards.

Learn the phrasal verb wrap up to finish discussing or finish working on something in a meeting, and recognize cues like aob signaling we're almost done.

Master practical business phone call phrases to manage calls confidently, including making introductions, requesting information, scheduling appointments, transferring, holding, handling interruptions, and using Skype, Facebook, and WhatsApp.

Learn to avoid false friends by using actuellement as currently, not actually, and recognize en fait and en réalité, with le bureau est actuellement fermé as the example.

Explore cultural differences and language nuances in English business meetings, comparing American, British, and French styles, with phrases to follow along and participate confidently in any meeting.

Learn essential vocabulary for business meetings, including chairing, agenda, minutes, apologies, turn things over, cover, and adjourn. Practice expressions used for meetings and for any other business to support participating.

Practice essential phrases for participating in business meetings in English and prepare comments in advance by checking the agenda.

Develop skills to participate in meetings by making, accepting, and rejecting suggestions, express opinions, and respond with agreeing, disagreeing, and suggesting phrases in professional English.

Learn to ask clear, polite questions in meetings to ensure understanding, reference meeting minutes, and contribute to decisions and actions using phrases like 'excuse me' and 'could you elaborate'.

Boost meeting confidence with action-oriented phrases to promise or refuse action, use future language with will or going to, and practice offers, questions, and promises for business meetings.