Business English

Scroll down the page to see our YouTube videos as well as accompanying learning material, which is also posted on both Instagram and Facebook.

Job Interviews – 5 common questions

Practise for your next interview with 5 common interview questions, complete with tips and sample answers.

Job Interviews – 5 common questions

Practise for your next interview with 5 common interview questions, complete with tips and sample answers.

Telephoning – getting through

Nowadays, we spend more time than ever on our mobile phones and sometimes we even make a telephone call! In this video, I would like to give you some essential phrases for making and receiving telephone calls.

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Telephoning – Phrases and closing

In this video, I will give you some phrases we can use to exchange and confirm information, leave messages on answerphones, plus phrases to show interest and end the call.

Arranging a meeting

For this video, I’ve given you some phrases of how to arrange a meeting in English. Learn how to ask and answer, either in a positive, negative, or tentative way. I have also included some examples of the prepositions ‘in, at, and on’ for time expressions.

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Leading a meeting

Have you ever had to be the chairperson of a meeting? It is important that you sound authoritative. Therefore, you should choose the words you use, very carefully. I have listed some useful phrases for every stage of the meeting. One good way to get everyone’s attention before the meeting starts, is to clap your hands and say, ‘let’s get down to business!’

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Presentations: Closing and Signposting

The second video on presentations, focusses on phrases we can use to use charts to illustrate your points, how you can deal with interruptions as well as signposting, tips to paraphrase your sentences, ways to indicate that you are coming to the end of your talk and how you can hand over to the next speaker.

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Presentations: Greetings and Signposting

With good preparation and the right choice of phrases, you will sound more confident, when you have to give your next presentation. This video will give you some useful phrases to introduce yourself, get audience feedback, signposting, as well as how to give examples

Describing Trends: Giving Reasons and Graphs

This video looks at how we can use different phrases when we describe trends. Additionally, you can see the charts we use for trends, as well as the movements visually represented on line graphs. This is one of four videos I have made to explain Describing Trends.

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Describing Trends: Adjectives and Adverbs

This video looks at the use of adjectives and adverbs, that we can use to be more descriptive when we describe the movement of trends. This is one of four videos I have made to explain Describing Trends.

Describing Trends: Verbs and Nouns

This video looks at the verbs, including phrasal verbs, that we use to describe upward, downward and horizontal movements. Additionally, we have corresponding nouns that we can use, when we want to rephrase our sentences. This is one of four videos I have made to explain Describing Trends.

Describing Trends: Tenses and Prepositions

This video focuses on trend phrases, using the correct tenses and prepositions, which will ensure you will be clear and concise, when you talk about trends. This is one of four videos I have made to explain Describing Trends.