Get your Business English presentations skills in shape with our Presentations English Bootcamp.
You can review all the presentations language featured in this quiz in these lessons:
BEP 212-213 – Bringing Visuals to Life
BEP 196-197 – Delivering Training
BEP 177-178 – Making an Impact
In this Business English Vocabulary lesson, we continue our look at English vocabulary and collocations related to sales management.
Premium Members: PDF Transcript | Quizzes | MP3 Audio OnlyDownload: Podcast Video
In this Business English Vocabulary lesson, we’ll look at vocabulary and collocations related to sales management. A sales force is made up of sales reps who try to identify leads with potential customers called prospects. A sales rep must qualify these prospects as they move down the sales funnel. At the end of the funnel, a rep hopes to close a sale, or make a deal.
Premium Members: PDF Transcript | Quizzes | MP3 Audio OnlyDownload: Podcast Video
Welcome back to Skills 360. It’s great to be back for a new season of podcasts from Business English Pod.
For today’s lesson, we’re going to take a look at 10 key skills or characteristics that every successful business leader needs. You’ve probably heard this kind of list before, but I want to do something a bit different. I’ve matched these key skills with simple but powerful words or phrases that you can use every day. In business, competition is fierce, and you want every advantage you can get, right? So let’s find out how you can get a leg up.
Free Resources: Transcript | Quizzes | PDF TranscriptDownload: Podcast MP3
Welcome back to Business English Pod for today’s lesson on attending a conference.
Conferences in English and other corporate events can be fantastic learning opportunities. They can also be good chances to connect with other people in your field. But just how good they are depends on more than just the speakers, the workshops, and the other participants. How much you get out of an event depends in large part on what you as a participant do.
You need to put your best foot forward, get engaged in the activities, and meet the people around you. In this way, you’ll learn a lot and make some good connections. But if you sit back, don’t ask questions, and just wait for others to talk to you, you’ll miss out on a great opportunity.
Today we’ll learn some techniques that can be very useful at any kind of event such as a conference, a networking social, or a fundraiser. We will learn how to ask good questions and show you’re engaged. We will also learn how to ask people about their background, give a compliment, and connect a topic to your own experience.
In the dialog, we’ll rejoin a regional HR conference of a large American company. We’ll hear Hanna, a conference attendee, during a workshop. Then we’ll hear Hanna approaching the presenter – Brent – later during lunch.
Listening Questions
1. What concept does Hanna express interest in?
2. What is the first topic of discussion between Hanna and Brent during lunch?
3. What does Hanna think Brent did well?
Download: Podcast MP3
In this Business English News lesson, we take a look at recent courtroom battles over technology patents.
In what some have dubbed ‘The Patent Trial of the Century’, Apple and Samsung have been fighting tooth and nail in recent weeks. Samsung was found to have infringed on 7 of Apple’s patents, in what became a $1B levy.
Free Resources: PDF Transcript | Online PracticeDownload: Podcast MP3
This is the first of a two-part Business English Pod lesson on making the most of your business english meetings.
Today’s lesson is officially our 200th BEP episode and this week we’ll also be rolling past 30 Million downloads. So a hearty thanks to every one of you for helping us reach this amazing milestone. It’s been a fantastic journey and we’re looking forward to the next 200. If you’d like to share in the celebration, please think about rating or commenting on our podcast page in iTunes.
This week also sees the roll out of our Course Builder app for premium members. You can check out the video on the website to see just how easy it is to build a personalized course with Course Builder.
So, have you ever announced a meeting and seen people roll their eyes? “Oh no, not another meeting,” they seem to be saying. But every organization needs meetings. They are important when we need to discuss an issue, share information, plan, or make decisions. The problem is that not every meeting is an effective meeting. In fact, there are some good reasons why a lot of people consider meetings a waste of time.
So the question is: how can you run a meeting that people come out of feeling positive? How can we make the most of our meetings?
Running a good meeting requires both leadership and tact. You need to guide the group towards its goals and keep the meeting on track. Today we’ll talk about how you can do this. We’ll look at how to keep the discussion moving and how to focus on the issues, rather than on people or items that aren’t on the agenda.
In this lesson, we’ll listen in on a meeting at a company that is dealing with unhappy staff. Tony, Annette, and Jake are managers, and they’re trying to figure out exactly what the problem is. The meeting is being run by Liz, who has been brought in from another department to help out. You will hear Liz use several techniques to keep the meeting on track.
Listening Questions
1. What is the purpose of this meeting?
2. What does Jake say is an important issue?
3. Why does Annette think the employee surveys are not useful?
http://178.62.22.135/learningcenter/Premium2008/quiz/
Premium Members: PDF Transcript | Quizzes | PhraseCast | Lesson Module
Download: Podcast MP3
PODCASTS
Learn business English with over 600 lessons to choose from. Our audio and video business English lessons cover a wide range of common topics, situations, and skills, including: presentations, telephoning, negotiating, conversation, travel, meetings, interviews, vocabulary, idioms, and more. Our goal is to teach natural and effective business English. We want our learners to be able to face different business and work situations with confidence and skill.
Every Business English Pod lesson comes with a complete PDF transcript that can be downloaded by members. The lesson transcripts include a dialog, teacher explanations, examples and speaking practice sections. You can look up the meaning of key words and idioms in the glossary and practice the target language in the review section.
Free SampleLESSON MODULES
For the best learning experience on desktop or mobile our lesson modules combine the audio and transcript in a mobile-friendly multimedia presentation. You can follow the transcript as you listen and easily repeat sections to hone your skills. The lesson modules work great on Android and iOS devices as well as desktops.
ONLINE QUIZZES
Every Business English Pod lesson comes with a set of practice quizzes to help you improve you listening, language and vocabulary skills. Learning needs to be reinforced with practice and quizzes. You need to know how much of the lesson you have understood and practice the language so you can use it.
MOBILE APPS
We offer a range of mobile apps for business English learners on Apple iOS and Android devices. With our main Business English App you can access over 300 of our MP3 and video lessons and transcripts. We also have 3 eCourse apps focused on key business English for meetings, presentations and telephoning. Check out the latest apps in the App Stores using the links below.
In this Email Tune-up lesson, we’re looking at an email from Jimmy, who is the training officer for his company. Jimmy wants to notify the various department heads of an upcoming seminar their staff will be attending. This is an internal email, which usually means it’s a bit more informal than something being sent outside the company. However, it’s being sent to managers at a higher rank than Jimmy’s, so the tone must be respectful and not too informal.
Premium Members: PDF Transcript | Online PracticeDownload: Podcast Video
