All Business / ESP articles – Page 16
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Should we ban fracking?
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about whether hydraulic fracturing should be banned.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Wild West of new business
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the emergence of young, innovative companies funded by small investors through crowdfunding sites.
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Teaching toolBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 6—Moving premises
In this lesson, students discuss moving premises and make decisions about work-from-home policies and outsourcing.
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LessonEnglish for HR Management: Performance appraisal
Students are introduced to the topic of performance appraisals in this instalment of David Baker’s HR management series.
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Business Basics: Office procedures
In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise helping a new colleague with office procedures. Exercises include: identifying the correct modal verb, listening to an office conversation, giving advice and writing a set of office procedures.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Whistle-blower: Karen Silkwood
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about union activist Karen Silkwood who exposed some scandalous business practices in her place of work.
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Teaching toolBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 5—Restructuring
In this lesson, students discuss the financial crisis and use idioms and phrases to discuss a difficult business.
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ArticleBusiness Basics: A job interview
In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise basic language associated with job interviews. Exercises include: identifying vocabulary used in job adverts, listening to a job interview and completing the gaps, creating a CV and role-playing a job interview.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: English as the EU language?
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about whether English should be the official language for the European Union (EU).
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ArticleLesson Share: Presenting convincing arguments
Gabrielle Jones wins the lesson share competition with a useful lesson on how to formulate convincing arguments and give structured opinions when debating a topic.
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Training
Students are introduced to the topic of training in this instalment of David Baker’s HR management series. Students read a text about the importance of training and listen to a conversation between two colleagues from a Human Resources department about how job satisfaction can change at different times in life.
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LessonBusiness Spotlight: Money, money, money
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about money and how attitudes to money differ between cultures and countries. T
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Business Basics: Comparing products and services
In this business lesson, students practise language associated with comparing products and services in a sales context.
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Survival Guide: Surviving the job interview
Here we offer support in preparing for a job interview, including practical advice, questions you wished you’d asked and, importantly, what NOT to say!
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Teaching toolBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 4—Situations vacant
In this lesson, students discuss what skills are needed to do a particular job, write CVs and formulate interview questions.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Small is now big
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the trend towards holding bespoke business gatherings at luxury boutique hotels rather than in conventional business hotels.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: The best way to say goodbye
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about starting at a company and, more importantly, what bosses should do when someone leaves their company.
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Teaching toolBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 3—Company profile
In this lesson, students discuss what kind of company the characters work for, answer questions about the company, and write a company profile.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: A sixth sense
This advanced-level lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about how to improve professional relationships with co-workers.
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Health and safety
Students are introduced to the topic of health and safety in this instalment of David Baker’s HR management series. Students read a text about health and wellness and human resource management, and listen to a conversation two colleagues from a Human Resources department about workplace stress.