Telephone English

BEP 88 – Telephoning: Booking a Travel Ticket

In this intermediate Business English lesson, we will practice useful vocabulary and language for making airplane and hotel arrangements on…

March 8, 2008

BEP 72 – Telephoning: Voicemail Messages

In this Business English lesson, we'll learn useful phrases and language for leaving a voicemail message.

November 10, 2007

BEP 69 – Telephone English: Leaving a Message

In this Business English Podcast lesson we look at the language you can use to leave a telephone answering machine…

October 21, 2007

BEP 54 – Customer Service: Handling Complaints 2: Resolving the Complaint

This is the second in a two-part Business English Pod series on handling angry customers on the telephone. In today's…

June 23, 2007

BEP 53 – Customer Service: Handling Complaints 1: Empathizing

Good customer service is essential to success in any industry, but it is particularly important in the service and hospitality…

June 19, 2007

BEP 48 – Cold Calling: Dealing with Objections and Closing the Call

This is the last in our three-part Business English Podcast series on cold calling. In today's lesson, you'll learn how…

May 16, 2007

BEP 47 – Cold Calling: Clarifying Benefits and Making a Pitch

This is the second in our three-part Business English Podcast lesson on a useful telephone and sales skill: cold calling.

May 13, 2007

BEP 46 – Cold Calling: Getting off to a Good Start

Today's lesson is the first in a three-part Business English Pod series on cold calling, the skill of making unsolicited…

May 9, 2007

BEP 23 – Telephoning: Handling a Difficult Customer

In a recent Business English Podcast (BEP 22), we looked at how to deal with technical problems when speaking on…

November 29, 2006

BEP 22 – Telephoning: Handling Enquiries and Technical Problems

In this Business English Podcast lesson we continue our series on making telephone calls in English by looking at how…

November 13, 2006