Erin Bouma's Recommended
Business English Resources
Do you teach Business English or sometimes need a business-related exercise to use with your students? Look no further – you’ll find lots of everything in this collection of sites.
www.businessdictionary.com/
It would be hard to beat the thousands of terms defined from fields such as: accounting, investing, agreements & contracts, project management, shipping, publishing, etc. Also lists most popular terms and has a search option.
www.better-english.com/exerciselist.html
By Pearson and Caroline Brown. About 25 listings including business grammar, vocabulary, phrasal verbs, collocations, presentations, etc. From low – high intermediate levels. Many on-line exercises, some you can print out.
http://www.dyned.com/voa/
Voice of America Radio Business English Course, “Functioning in Business”
12-week course going from simple introductions to a business lunch meeting. Conversation transcripts and audio offered, plus functions and cultural tips. Listening membership offered.
http://towerofenglish.com/linguarama.html
Click on the Linguarama purple bar on the left for Themes (Personnel, Sales, Legal Eng, Retailing, etc), Vocab, Grammar, Reading and Polite English. Includes texts and exercises.
www.english-online.org.uk/specialcourse.htm?name=biz&link=bizcourse.htm
Three 15-part courses: INVESTING (vocab, reading, functions) MARKETING and THE OFFICE (vocab, reports & discussion, document). For upper-intermediate/advanced students.
www.lapasserelle.com/lm/exercices/specialite.html
For French students. Advanced with texts from economic textbooks. Letter-writing, collocation exercises.
http://www.eslgold.net/business.html
Lesson Plan Outline and Teaching Tips, as well as a large selection of business expressions.
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/business/
This site has sections on getting a job, working abroad, business negotiations with audios and quizzes. There is also an intermediate level course and a wealth of archives.
www.bized.co.uk/
Lesson plans for Business studies, Economics, Business and Economic Education, Travel and Tourism. Current Business Topics in the news.
www.emse.fr/~yukna/business/businessemporium.html
Christopher Yukna offers creative role plays, vocabulary for advertising, insurance, financial bingo, and humorous advertising campaigns.
www.businessenglishonline.net/resources.htm
McMillian site with free resources for teaching business. Good worksheets on four levels with keys from “In Company” course. 32 exercise worksheets for writing a variety of e-mails. Newsletter subscription and progress tests.
http://teacherjoe.us/Business.html
American “Teacher Joe” offers good business vocabulary with example sentences and 40 idiomatic expressions used in business.
www.speakspeak.com/html/d2_english_resources_business_vocab_library.htm
100 essential business nouns, 100 essential business verbs, telephone language, letter-writing set phrases.
www.thetimes100.co.uk/company_list.php
Real life business case studies showing the practice of business studies theory. 35 major companies included show how business and marketing work. Quizzes.
http://businesswritingtips.com/wbwt/tips-index.htm
Nearly 500 weekly practical writing tips for business communications including, grammar, spelling, word choice, set phrases, tests. Also 47-page resume writing handbook to download.
www.englishclub.com/business-english
Sections on business letters, negotiations and meetings. Also covers writing resumes and cover letters and making presentations.