Young Business English

Business English for Professionals aged 20-30

This course is designed to provide you with the business English skills you need for your career. It can also provide an excellent preparation for MBA studies. It focuses on English for meetings, presentations and negotiations, as well as giving you the skills to communicate well in less formal business and social situations.

You can also expect to develop your reading and listening skills and improve your written English in a work context – including handling reports and drafting emails.

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Group size:

Maximum 10

Course level:

Levels 4 - 8 on the school's level scale

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Fees:

£395/week
£1370/week (morning group + 15 hours individual tuition)

Participants age:

Age: 20 - 30
Average age: 25

Course length:

Course length 2 - 6 weeks
Recommended start dates every 2 weeks but it is possible to start any Monday

Hours per week:

24 hours per week (24 x 60 minutes)
09.30 - 16.00 Monday - Friday

Location:

Holland Park Gardens

Available as a combination course

Sample Timetable

Who's it for?

If you are still at a fairly early stage in your business career, then this is the course for you. You may have a few years’ working experience, or you may be coming to the end of your business studies and preparing yourself for the workplace. Some business experience is certainly useful, but not essential.

Course content

The following areas provide the framework for the course:

presenting your own career, company organisation (where appropriate) and current management issues
aspects of a company's business – eg products, services, marketing, finance
simulated business meetings and negotiations
simulated business telephone calls
presenting facts and figures, graphs and describing economic and social trends
comparing working habits and cross-cultural issues
recruitment practice and procedures

When business people are speaking with clients and contacts, discussion often turns to broader matters. The course reflects this by providing practice in a range of topical issues such as:

current affairs
environmental and social questions
political issues
education and training
advertising and the media
technology and the impact of computerisation

We give participants greater confidence in taking part in and chairing business meetings and negotiations. Therefore we would cover appropriate communication strategies such as:

agreeing and disagreeing
interrupting
clarifying and confirming
asking for comments
summarising
asking appropriate questions
challenging/defending an opinion
persuading and compromising
making proposals, offers, suggestions
opening/closing meetings

Professional hospitality, entertaining visitors and handling social situations are important for many business people, as is confidence when using the telephone. Areas covered would therefore include:

meeting and greeting
receiving visitors
socialising
using the telephone effectively
practice in communicating more complex ideas and discussing problems

The benefits

You can expect to improve your English in the following ways:

communicate more confidently
speak more accurately and fluently
participate more successfully in meetings
improve your written English including emails
expand your professional vocabulary
improve your understanding of grammar
socialise and network with greater confidence
work successfully in a cross-cultural environment

In addition to the benefits outlined above, you can expect to expand your active business vocabulary and use English in your work with greater confidence.