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Business English Activities Free online activities to test your knowledge of business English.
Business English Exercises An extensive, incredible collection of business English exercises. Includes lessons in grammar, vocabulary and reading as well as discussion lists and free exercises via Email.
Business English Sites Links to a number of interesting sites for students of business English.
Activities/Lessons/Resources for Teachers
Clarity English - A software company that specialises in producing online English courses using their own learning platform. There are many courses to choose from, some from leading publishers. A results management system is incorporated into the learning platform.
Beth's Business English Market Shopping for teaching ideas for your Business English course? This site provides an INSTRUCTOR'S GUIDE and LESSON MODULES that include plans, exercises, and ideas, as well as stores of the best free sources for teaching and learning Business English on the web.
BizPlanIt.Com Contains the web's largest collection of free business plan tips, information, and advice that you can use to create a winning business plan on your own.
Business Vocabulary - Core vocabulary reference sheets providing between 150 and 240 key words and phrases for each industry.
International House Barcelona Resources and business worksheets for teachers. Worksheets focus on grammar usage in business applications. Other worksheets are questions only, without any accompanying readings for general applications.
Developing Awareness - A lesson plan by Asako Kajiura for developing intercultural communication, taken from the Internet TESL journal. Activity is designed to increase student's ability to interact with and understand aspects of other cultures such as body language, discourse patterns, gender roles. Appropriate for intermediate and advanced level students.
Online English Grammar - Superb grammar resources, including writing and punctuation tips.
The LACS Center Business English teaching resources - An online source for business-related English teaching materials. Teaching materials include speaking fluency skills, negotiation skills, and presentation skills. Their online activities include 4 Morse Veglar Stories with advanced level cloze exercises (you need Explorer 4.0 or Navigator 4.0 to download these) and 2 multiple choice tests.
Learning Post A collection of the Bangkok Post's weekly ESL business columns. Each column consists of background and commentary followed by an actual story from the Bangkok Post, accompanied by explanations of key vocabulary terms.
My Philosophy for Teaching English for Business By Lawrence Baron, The Internet TESL Journal.
Learning Resources The Learning Resources site offers web-delivered instruction using CNN and CBS 5 - KPIX (CBS Broadcasting) news stories. Western/Pacific LINCS (part of the National Institute for Literacy's LINCS Project) and Literacyworks, uses these stories to develop an online literacy site that benefits all learners and instructors. This material is intended for adult literacy and educational purposes. Though the intended audience is adults, instructors and learners (of all ages) are encouraged to use this material to promote better literacy.
Business Writing Help Ruth Vilmi's incredible collection of writing links. From academic to business to technical writing help, it's all here.
The English Clinic Students can test their writing ability here.
The Purdue University Online Writing Lab An incredible collection of writing links that includes professional writing and ESL writing.
Internet TESL journal - a monthly web magazine, for teachers of ESL that contains articles, research papers, lessons plans, classroom handouts, teaching ideas & links. The search engine makes searching for specific lesson plans or ideas easy.
Fortune Magazine
Money Daily
Reuters Business
USA Today
The Economist
Other Business/Information Sources
Pathfinder From Fortune's online magazine. This comprehensive site provides company profiles of all of the Fortune 500 Companies.
CNNfn CNN's Financial Network online. From the market to world business to industrywatch, it's all here.
Business Help Page Ruth Vilmi's business links page. The links don't offer a lot of explanation, but it's definitely worth your time to explore them.
The American Stock Exchange SBA Online The Small Business Association's web site for information on starting a small business.
Dictionaries and Glossaries
Newbury House Online Dictionary You can suggest a word if you can't find it and there's even a cultural hint of the day. A nice tool!
American Business Jargon - Alphabetical listing of American business vocabulary.
Business Vocabulary - Top 20 Words in sectors like Advertising, Insurance, Money, Presentations, etc.
Professional Organizations
BESIG or Business English Special Interest Group An organization for the Business English teaching profession.
TESOL An organization devoted to the professional development of, and resource base for ESL teachers worldwide.
TEFL Professional An organization that offers support and resources to TEFL teachers.
BEC (Business English Certificates) UCLES
BULATS (Business Language Testing Service)
ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) - Pitman City & Guilds
EBC (English for Business Communications) - Pitman City & Guilds
SESOL (Spoken English for Speakers of Other Languages) - Pitman City & Guilds
EFB (English for Business) - LCCIE
EFC (English for Commerce) - LCCIE
ELSA (English Language Skills Assessment) - LCCIE
TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication) - ETS