Modern Business English
What you'll learn
- Understanding and usage of business words in context
- Hugely increase your Business English vocabulary
- Very modern usage of Business English
- How to understand conversations about Business in English
- Summary of key business situations
- A unique approach to learning - from film and cartoons
Requirements
- Pen/paper to make notes of the key terms
- Willingness to try a totally new approach to learning Business English
- Timer and a quiet place to think and create
Description
This course is unique!
Yes, there are standard Business English lessons.
BUT ALSO:
1. Lectures showing business terms that are unusual and very very new
2. Lectures analysing films about business and technology - and these lectures include interviews with the actors!
3. Lectures where you are shown business situations and asked to describe what happened
4. Lectures showing business cartoons and discussing possible interpretations
5. Lectures showing current business situations (May 2023) and looking at the vocabulary
Two Instructors
Films about technology
Films where you create the script
CURRENT business situations
Unusual vocabulary
Plenty of exercises for you to do
This course includes a stand-alone SEVEN DAY COURSE IN BUSINESS ENGLISH as part of the overall course.
This course is split into five main parts as follows:
1. Business English Core (the Seven Day Course)
2. Business chat - looking at current (January 2023) Business Events and discussing the vocabulary. We also use cartoons for this.
3. Films. We look at two films - and see interviews with the actors. These can then be further discussed in the Q/A
4. Film clips (about 20 seconds each) Here you are set tasks based on the films - all of which are in a business situation
5. Business cartoons. You are shown a cartoon and asked to interpret the business situation.
These cartoons have been especially commissioned for this course! They were created ONLY for this course!
You are also invited - and offered a reward - if you can identify the various portraits of Business Leaders.
So, this course has many different sections to it - many you will never have come across before.
Enrol. Enjoy. Learn.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wants to listen and understand Business English
- Anyone who wants to improve their writing of Business English
- Anyone who wants to use English in business situations
Instructors
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 10,395 Reviews
- 252,137 Students
- 144 Courses
Studied at:
· University of Oxford (Philosophy and Economics)
· Oxford Brookes (Teacher training)
· University of Glamorgan (Business and Economics)
Qualifications
· Professional qualifications at Masters level
· Business and Economics degree
· Examiner for four major examining boards, at ‘O’ and ‘A’ level.
· Three teaching diplomas plus CELTA
· Qualified fitness trainer
Key academic positions held:
· Principal Oxford School of Learning
· Director of Studies: St Joseph’s Hall, Oxford
· Head of Economics: Cherwell Tutors
· Head of Business and Economics: Pipers Corner School, Buckingham
· Founder: Almost Random Theatre
I have experience in four main areas:
a. Teaching (40+ years of face-to-face experience)
b. Running businesses and conferences
c. Acting in films and theatre
d. Volunteering for a number of charities
Teaching/Instructor experience
Face-to-face: MBA students on a 1-1 basis; at University; Grammar, Comprehensive and F.E. College. This has included being Principal, Director of Studies; Head of Business and Head of Economics at various times in the past 40 years!
I have taught: Economics, Business, Sociology, Politics, English Literature and Psychology.
I have also run seminars for Teachers of |Psychology, Sociology, Businessman Economics.
I have run Therapeutic Art groups at Care Homes.
The success of my Business and Economics students has been featured in several newspapers plus I have appeared on BBC.
Running businesses and conferences.
I started Oxford School of Learning in the 1980s. From the college came Marketing Education Services, OSL Training and Saturday tutors.
In 201 I started Almost Random Theatre and have taken actors to Poland and the Czech Republic as well as running Drama days at schools.
Writing: my plays are sold to schools; I have 100+ books on Amazon; I used to write a regular column for The Guardian and BBC Bitesize.
Acting in films and theatre
My plays are sold to schools. I have performed at Oxford and Brighton Fringes as well as appearing in 100+ films, national TV advertising campaigns and role-played a hospital patient for Buckingham University’s medical degree students.
Volunteering
I have worked/am still working for Care Homes, Multiple Sclerosis Society, Dystonia Society, Stroke Association, Stroke Club, Talkback, Oxford Recovery College, Tandem, Age UK and Sport in Mind. I’ve given my tutorial fees to the Multiple Sclerosis Society and the Dystonia Society. I currently have a GoFundMe page to help lonely elderly people.
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 7,615 Reviews
- 183,005 Students
- 52 Courses
Oxford School of Learning was set up in 1986. It became a limited company which was then closed down around 2018 as there was no need to keep it going. The School kept going though, writing/providing books, online courses and issuing the Oxford School of Learning Diploma to those who met difficult criteria.
As the name suggests, Oxford School of Learning is based in Oxford, UK. The original Principal was Chris Sivewright who now delivers various Economics and Business courses for us.