Business English Week 3

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Business English Week 3

Welcome! 

How are you feeling today?

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How are you feeling today?

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Wat gaan we doen?

• Business English: Introduction and Market Research (Project related)
• Generic English: Read and Listening skill
  

Starting with Business English 

warm up

What is business English? (Volgens jou)

1. English used for trade
2. English used to buy and sell
3. English used to communicate in the workplace
4. English used for job interviews

Business English is… 

an umbrella term for any written or spoken interaction that takes place in English in a business setting where the purpose of the interaction is related  to business. 

Business🇬🇧= zaken, Handel🇳🇱

Write down a few specific situations you can think of where people use business English?

There are 2 types of business English 

1. International business English > business English between native speakers 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇺🇸

2. Business English as a lingua Franca > Business english between non native speakers and native speakers 🇳🇱🇨🇳🇬🇧🇦🇺🇺🇸

watch the video on the next slide and tell me if what you hear is business English or not

Was the Dutch speaker speaking Business English or not?

1. Yes, he was speaking business English
2. No, he wasn’t speaking business English?

Why wasn’t he speaking business English according to you?

Business English Components

Telephone English

Grammar

Pronunciation

Writing

Reading

Listening

Idioms, Phrasals, Collocations

Colloquium

Enough about business English 

Let's look at the project Marketing and trends...

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