Category Archives: Business English and ESP

New Teaching Negotiating e-book

Posted on 06/02/2024 by alexcase

Over 300 photocopiable pages on the most important tactics and language for the vital skill of negotiating, including much improved versions of some of my favourite activities ever and stacks of new materials: Teaching Negotiating: Interactive Classroom Activities – NEW … Continue reading →

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Business communication reviews (TEFLtastic Classics Part 51)

Posted on 10/01/2023 by alexcase

Often after my last TEFLtastic Classic (needs and instant personalised practice), I often start business courses with a big review of the basic language for electronic and face-to-face communication, with materials like these: First contact and further contact picking roleplays … Continue reading →

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22 needs analysis and instant personalised practice activities (TEFLtastic classics Part 48)

Posted on 05/01/2022 by alexcase

Back when I was studying to teach English for Business for the first time, what I most appreciated and gained from were lessons on doing needs analysis and on planning first lessons that cover things that most students are likely … Continue reading →

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Xmas activities for Business and ESP classes

Posted on 07/12/2021 by alexcase

I don’t see any reason why ESP classes can’t also have a bit of seasonal cheer, as long as you manage to tie it in with something useful such as meetings roleplays, pronouncing numbers, talking about trends, or telephoning practice. … Continue reading →

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New Teaching Meetings e-book

Posted on 11/10/2021 by alexcase

Over 300 pages of classroom-tested photocopiable activities on starting meetings, chairing, turn taking, giving and responding to opinions and advice, smoothly progressing through the meeting and bringing them to an end, etc, etc. Includes stacks of roleplays and meetings language … Continue reading →

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Recommended free Elementary and Pre-Int business self-study materials

Posted on 13/09/2021 by alexcase

This is a list of the best A1 and A2 level materials I could find online. I made this for my students to use while they were waiting for their one-to-one tutorials, to discuss afterwards, and hopefully to use to … Continue reading →

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Collins Academic Skills: Presenting and Group Work review

Posted on 17/12/2014 by alexcase

Another MET one. This time the reviews editor added words that suggested I’d still recommend the Group Work title, which is a rather “generous” reading of what I wrote… Group Work by Graham Burton: ISBN 978 000 750714 6 Presenting by … Continue reading →

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New English for lawyers games/ worksheets page

Posted on 31/07/2014 by alexcase

Have combined four specific new worksheets on the topic with some of my old crime and punishment classics to make a new legal English page: Legal English games/ worksheets

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The most important and neglected kind of academic writing?

Posted on 27/02/2014 by alexcase

To my pleasant surprise, about 80% of my academic writing students last term chose “emailing to academic staff” as the most useful thing we covered in that course. The surprise comes from the fact that I’ve never seen it in … Continue reading →

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Extreme needs-based teaching!

Posted on 02/12/2013 by alexcase

I’ve been doing this for a while in one-to-one classes, but took me a while to come up with a worksheet for group classes to elicit and practise what students need in the very first lesson, even when those needs … Continue reading →

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