All Business / ESP articles – Page 17
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Business Basics: Making suggestions
In this business lesson, students practise describing a colleague’s difficult behaviour and making suggestions on how to deal with it.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Coca-Cola's biggest mistake
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about Coca-Cola and a far-reaching marketing decision the company made in the 1980s.
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Business Basics: Ordering a service or product
In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise language related to describing products and services in a sales context. Exercises include: completing information from an IT website, asking and answering questions, and writing a service profile.
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Teaching toolBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 2—Company structure
In this lesson, students will complete an organigram of a fictional company and talk about their own company’s structure.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Henry Ford's $5 pay offer
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the visions and decisions of Henry Ford and how they impacted on the Ford Motor Company.
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Teaching toolBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 1—Playing the game
In the first lesson of this engaging series, students get to know the Top Trumps cards and learn how to play the game.
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Selection and recruitment
Students are introduced to the topic of selection and recruitment in this instalment of David Baker’s HR management series. Students read a text about the crucial role of recruitment and selection and listen to a conversation two colleagues from a Human Resources department about modern recruitment practices.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Calm and productive
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about work-related stress, what consequences it has and how it can be relieved.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Powers in the East
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, two businessmen, one from Japan, the other from China, talk about the economic challenges Japan and China are facing and dealing with.
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ArticleBusiness Top Trumps: An Introduction
Check out this original set of Business Top Trumps cards and twelve complete lesson plans and inject some fun into your Business English classes.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Dressing for success
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the importance of appropriate dress for certain business occasions.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Access all areas
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about a man who changed his rather conventional job for something more adventurous, dangerous and physically challenging.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Good connections
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about how social media can help you find a job or sell a business idea.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Should interns be paid?
In this lesson, based on two articles from Business Spotlight, two professionals offer their differing opinions on whether interns should be paid for their work.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: We are not geeks
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, two London accountants talk about their very different working conditions and benefits.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Should you socialize with your co-workers?
In this lesson, based on two articles from Business Spotlight, two professionals offer their differing opinions on whether work colleagues should socialize together.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Outdoor office
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, features a man who has managed to turn his hobby into his career and start an ecological consultancy business.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Fighting back
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about different forms of bullying in the workplace and ways to tackle them.
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Lesson Share: ESP: The future of computers?
Phil Wade wins the lesson share competition with a specialist lesson for IT students that profiles the Raspberry Pi pocket computer and covers common IT abbreviations.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: A marathon, not a sprint
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, is about London hosting the Olympic Games and the disruption and challenges this may cause people living in the city.