Business
English Links for ESL 
ProActive English - for Business Professionals - Customized language training for professionals working and living in the U.S. The Web site includes sample language learning activities for intermediate level speakers on up.
Mock
Job Interview From the Kaplan Educational Center. A fun
and interactive activity for
students who want to practice answering job interview questions.
Business English Crossword Free online crossword puzzle to test your knowledge of business English.
Business
English Exercises An extensive, incredible collection of
business English exercises from English International. Includes lessons
in grammar, vocabulary and reading as well as discussion lists and free
exercises via Email.
Business Meeting Quiz A quiz by Michael Vallance designed to test student's knowledge of what to say at business meetings.
Advertising for Fun An advanced level online student activity designed to teach the student how to run an advertising campaign.
Writing
A Business Plan From Biz/Ed, this worksheet was written
for Biz/ed and the BBC by Sue Hall ofEmbley Park School in Romsey. It uses
much of the information that is available on the Internet to help small
businesses to plan for the future.
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.
Biz/Ed
Contains teaching materials which support many aspects of business studies,
economics and MBA programs.
Marketing and Sales Vocabulary - This free software helps students to learn the vocabulary of Sales and Marketing in a fun way.
International House Barcelona Page may load slowly. 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.
Hanson Business English simulations - taken from the TESL journal, this activity by Heather Hanson provides ideas for business English lessons. Get your students to imagine that they are entrepreneurs and be creative using business vocabulary and concepts. A brief description of six, 90-minute lesson plans follows. Can be adapted to different levels. Corresponding handouts can be obtained by emailing the author.
The Digital Education Network's English Language Practice Pages A few business English exercises written by a number of published English language specialists and contributing teachers.
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.
Business English Recipes 6 business lesson plans from Addison Wesley Longman. Activities focus on problem solving, effective communication skills, telephone skills, giving and receiving instructions and social interactions.
About Business A collection of the Bangkok Post's weekly ESL business columns from August 1997 to present. 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, November 1998.
The Business English File By Brenda Townsend Hall. Articles and Outlines for Business English Teachers that focus on teaching approaches and methods.
CNN
Newsroom and Worldview for ESL Special daily broadcasts
may be taped and are accompanied online by a set of "Guidelines."
Each set of guidelines in the CNN Newsroom broadcast supplement begins
with a program rundown of what is included in the broadcast, including
time lengths for each news section so that a teacher can determine how
a section of news will fit into a limited class time. Includes vocabulary
lists, discussion questions and a student activity section.
All courtesy of Turner Educational
Services, Inc.
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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 Anthony Hughes' Online Grammar Site. Students can send in their grammar questions and the English Clinic will answer them.
Writing Business Correspondence - From the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
The
Purdue University Online Writing Lab An incredible collection
of writing links that includes professional writing and ESL writing.
Effective
Business Writing for ESL Designed
and taught by Tracy Schall, this online business writing course will help
high-intermediate to advanced levels of ESL business students and
professionals improve the stylistic quality of their writing in composing
memos, letters and reports. It does not teach basic writing skills.
Instead, through extensive instructor feedback, you will learn what makes
writing clear and concise, what makes it flow, and how to organize your
writing for maximum effect.
By the conclusion
of this course, you should be better able to:
· Compose
clear, logical and concise sentences
· Understand
how to structure a sentence, paragraph, or document for maximum effect
· Understand
how to avoid the more common writing problems of word choice, grammar/usage,
and lengthy sentences
· Understand
the effective strategies for organizing and writing memos, business letters
and reports
(PYBE) Practice Your Business English
Virtual Languages An on-line business English course for beginning through advanced proficiency levels.
New School University Offers business writing courses both on line and on campus.
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.
ESL Business English Texts Review From the TESL-EJ online journal.
WWW Business-Related Resources A great source of links from Dr. Harold Pardue of the University of Minnesota-Deluth.
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.
Wall Street Research Net Provides complete reports on Fortune 500 companies.
SBA Online The Small Business Association's web site for information on starting a small business.
Dictionary of Management and Technology This site also has the International Financial Encyclopedia. In addition to thousands of business and technical terms, this dictionary and encyclopedia also contain the names of individuals who are known in the industry or who have made contributions to the industry.
American Business Jargon - Alphabetical listing of American business vocabulary.
Business
Vocabulary - Top 20 Words in sectors like Advertising, Insurance, Money,
Presentations, etc.
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.
Last Updated February 26, 2000.
