Business English courses. |
Course overview.
Our Business English Courses are especially designed to help you communicate better at your workplace.
By asking you to take a free of charge placement test, we ensure that you are placed at the right level, optimizing thus your on-task time and maximizing your learning.
Focusing more on the actualities of the business world, we provide courses that offer value for money since you can start applying your newly acquired knowledge immediately. Our courses help you write more accurately, address clients and colleagues more confidently and, thus, save you time wasted in looking up simple things.
All courses are tailor-made to meet your specific needs, be it for banking, accounting, law or medicine.
By asking you to take a free of charge placement test, we ensure that you are placed at the right level, optimizing thus your on-task time and maximizing your learning.
Focusing more on the actualities of the business world, we provide courses that offer value for money since you can start applying your newly acquired knowledge immediately. Our courses help you write more accurately, address clients and colleagues more confidently and, thus, save you time wasted in looking up simple things.
All courses are tailor-made to meet your specific needs, be it for banking, accounting, law or medicine.
Choose your corporate package.
Business English Workshops.
Apart from our Business English Courses, we also offer Writing Workshops both at our premises and at your office(s).
Favourite topics include:
Cost: 200 euro per participant
Favourite topics include:
- The English Grammar and Punctuation Workshop
- The English Tenses and their Correct Use Workshop
- The Passive Voice and its Use Workshop
Cost: 200 euro per participant
Business English Courses.
Apart from our tailor-made Business English Courses and Workshops, we also offer Business English Courses at our premises. The courses are offered both as group and private.
Available levels
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BeginnersIf you have had prior experiences learning English and have forgotten most of it, but wish to revisit the language by going back to the basics so that you can rebuild firm foundations, then this is the course for you. This course caters for the needs of the so-called False Beginners; people, in other words, who have had some experience with English in the past, but they cannot recall much and wish to start anew. Using the textbook “Restart” which is specifically created for Adult False Beginners, the course will allow you to start feeling more confident about using the language at your workplace by enabling you to eliminate simple mistakes and by embellishing your vocabulary. Furthermore, being immersed in an environment that is designed for the needs of adult learners, you will immediately feel at home in your new undertaking, and therefore more motivated to achieve your language goals. The course will visit topics such as Work and Career, Education, Technology, Travel and Tourism, etc.
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ElementaryThis course is particularly designed for those who have a good grasp of the basics but still find it a bit hard to communicate effectively, especially at the workplace. By signing up for this course, you will improve your accuracy in using the language, you will embellish your business-related vocabulary and phraseology, and you will become increasingly more confident in all business-related tasks such as telephoning, emailing, making presentations, participating effectively in meetings etc. Using the book “New Edition Market Leader: Elementary Coursebook”, which has been developed in collaboration with the Financial Times, the course entails topics relating to work and socialising, such as Travel, Food and Entertainment, Problems at Work, Sales, Marketing, Successful Companies, Online Businesses, etc. Indeed, this course will enhance your confidence in using the language effectively and improve your career opportunities.
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Pre-intermediateIf you are capable of understanding most conversations in English at your workplace and of using the language fairly well in writing and speaking but still lack the confidence in your knowledge, then this course is for you. Using the textbook “New Edition Market Leader: Pre-Intermediate Coursebook” which includes authentic materials from the Financial Times, the course deepens your knowledge of the language by building your skills in using grammar more accurately; by expanding your ability to use business-related vocabulary more pertinently and effectively in persuading and negotiating; and, by developing your language skills in business-related tasks such as sales, marketing, and promotions. The themes contained in this course will allow you to expand your knowledge of the business world, entertain yourselves while working on relevant topics and real-life situations, and most importantly boost your knowledge of the language in all skills while also building your efficacy at work through using the language correctly.
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IntermediateThis course is for those who are already good and confident users of the language but still want to delve deeper in the language and enhance their language skills by fine-tuning certain aspects, by further improving their language accuracy, and by enhancing their ability to use the language coherently, effectively, and efficiently in such situations as meetings, negotiations with clients, social events etc. Using the textbook “New Edition Market Leader: Intermediate Coursebook” which includes authentic materials from the Financial Times, the course will equip you with relevant phraseology and more general language skills for issues pertaining to recruiting staff, branding, ethics at work, leadership in business, innovation etc. Candidates who complete this course will be considerably more effective in using English confidently in situations such as problem-solving, negotiating, expressing displeasure in a business environment, presenting a case or product, and in managing meetings.
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Upper intermediateThis course is for those who are confident and very good users of the language, but need to achieve a level near to fluency. So, this course is about perfecting grammar used in everyday business situations, but also reaching an accuracy that allows one to operate autonomously in writing, meetings, and other business situations. Using the book “New Edition Market Leader: Upper-Intermediate Coursebook”, which includes a plethora of authentic material from the Financial Times, the course allows you to perfect your grammar and optimize your ability in networking, dealing with crises at work, managing staff, reaching agreement, handling difficult situations with clients, etc. This course is about enabling you to eliminate your doubts when using the language and to turn vagueness into clarity.
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AdvancedThis course is designed to enable you to reach a level of absolute fluency. If you are a manager or a team-leader and need to edit other people’s work confidently, effectively, and efficiently, then this course is made for you. Using the “New Edition Market Leader: Advanced Coursebook”, the course focuses on writing flawlessly and effectively and also in public speaking. The topics included in the book allow you to perfect your writing skills in writing proposals, terms and conditions, mission statements, website content, reports, and emails. Further, the course will enable you to use the language flawlessly in presentations, interviews, and debates. The course topics include: finance and banking, business ethics, business strategy, consulting, starting a new business, etc. This course is for those who want to excel in business and who want the language to become an advantage in their career path.
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Course Schedule 2019.
All courses are offered twice a year and last for 15 weeks. The classes meet twice a week for 1.5 hours which makes a total of 45 teaching hours per level.
False beginnersHours to be arranged
Intermediate
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Elementary Monday 09:30-10:30
Wednesday 17:30-18:30 
Upper intermediate |
Intermediate 
Advanced |
