A basic understanding of common financial and accounting terms and English vocabulary is essential for everyone involved in global trade. In these video casts from our Video Vocab series, we explain the meaning of 20 key accounting terms and provide examples of how the vocabulary can be used in English.
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Lesson Content: VV 09 Video | VV 10 Video | Study Notes PDF | Online QuizzesIn this recent lesson from our e-Book on job interviews we looked at how to present your achievements successfuly by providing clear and convincing eaxamples.
Ordinarily, when responding to the question about your most significant accomplishment, it’s very important that you prepare to tell a story that is organized and articulate. That means, the story should be well-structured and flow smoothly.
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This is a preview of our revised e-Book for business meetings: Meeting Essentials for Business English.
Business English Pod e-Books enable you to learn on the go with MP3 audio lessons and the detailed PDF study guides, including a full transcript of each lesson. The revised editions include over 100 online Flash quizzes, exercises and flashcards designed to help you practice and use all the language covered in the course.
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In this lesson on telephone skills, we look at how to handle an enquiry about the delivery of an order.
Making sure that orders are made and delivered on time is an essential part of international business, and a lot of the monitoring is done by phone. So, in this episode we’re going to look at ways to check on the progress of an order over the telephone.
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In this lesson from the new edition of our English for Meetings e-Book and app, we look at how to structure and participate in a successful problem solving meeting.
One of the most common reasons for holding a meeting is to solve a problem. But, while we might have the right people at the meeting, the process is often flawed because one question hasn’t clearly been asked and answered: “What is the problem?” So, in this lesson we’re going to focus on how to define the problem through discussion and then restate the problem as a challenge.
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This is a preview of our revised Business English e-Book for job interviews: Successful Job Interviews in English.
Business English Pod e-Books enable you to learn on the go with MP3 audio lessons and the detailed PDF study guides, including a PDF transcript of each lesson. The revised editions include over 100 online quizzes, exercises and flashcards designed to help you practice and use all the language covered in the course.
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Chalk ‘n’ Talk is a new series of video lessons exploring advanced English grammar topics.
In this lesson, Brian reviews the three basic conditionals: first (probable) conditional, second (improbable) conditional and third (past improbable) conditional. In the second part of the video, Brian looks at some common errors native speakers make with the third conditional.
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This second part of a two-part Business English Podcast series on running and participating in a problem-solving meeting.
In the first part of this meeting (see BEP 126), the team spent time answering the question: “What is the problem?” In today’s episode, we’re going to focus on how to brainstorm solutions to a problem through discussion, how to evaluate and eliminate suggestions and then agree a plan of action.
Kathryn, the head of Human Resources at a medium-sized company, is meeting with department heads to discuss a problem they are having with low staff morale. The team has identified the root cause of the problem as the separation of staff across 3 different office locations.
Kathryn wants everyone to critique the ideas that the group has brought forward, in order to eliminate impractical suggestions. We’ll see how she confirms the best solution and how her team suggests points for action. As the dialog starts, Kathryn closes the brainstorming session and sums up the input that has been received.
Listening Questions
1) How many ideas does the group come up with for solving the staff morale problem?
2) Which idea does the group agree is the best one to try?
3) Name one of the action points suggested near the end of the meeting.
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