This course offers you an opportunity to talk about a wide range of topics related to business and current affairs.The choice of topic is open to the group. Prior to the lessons, students receive gap-fill exercises to practise related vocabulary and a road map of questions on the chosen topic.
This business English course covers the core areas of business Englisch at B-level with a strong focus on speaking and communicating in real-life business situations: - personal encounters (social situations of business English such as building relationships, dealing with customers, clients and colleagues), - day-to-day business (daily routines such as making appointments, writing agendas and minutes and planing your work, online meetings), - business results (how to make an impact with the results of your work, reporting on progress and achievements, keeping each other informed and dealing with facts and figures).
This is a course to help you write effective business emails in English. We will be looking at how to - differentiate between formal and informal language - address the addressee, open and close emails - give good and bad news, request and give information, attach files - make and reply to inquiries, make and respond to suggestions - change and confirm arrangements - make and deal with complaints, make apologies, ask for payment - be direct and brief, be indirect and polite, check understanding. By the end of this course, you will be able to apply key language to different types of emails.
Das Wochenseminar vermittelt auf der Grundlage guter, stabiler Grundkenntnisse relevante Sprachkompetenzen für berufliche und alltägliche Situationen. Im Zentrum stehen Auffrischung und Erweiterung des Wortschatzes aus dem allgemeinen beruflichen Umfeld, grammatikalische Korrektheit und eine gute Aussprache, wobei besondere Interessen und Anforderungen aus den Tätigkeitsbereichen der Teilnehmenden einfließen können. Im Zentrum steht eine sichere mündliche Kommunikation in den berufsbezogenen Themen und angemessene Formulierungen für den Mail- und Schriftverkehr sowie beim Telefonieren oder in Meetings. Gesellschaftspolitische Themen rund um die deutsch-spanischen Beziehungen, Bildung, Politik und interkulturelle Aspekte gehören neben dem Sprachunterricht zu den Inhalten des Bildungsurlaubs. Das Niveau B1 entspricht etwa vier Jahren Schulunterricht. Wir empfehlen zur Einschätzung Ihrer Sprachkenntnisse einen Test zur Einstufung, kontaktieren Sie uns bei Bedarf.
Do you want to improve your English fluency for work and sound more like a native speaker? One of the best and quickest ways for this is to learn some common idioms which are frequently used in the workplace, such as in meetings and emails. In this course, you will learn how to use such idioms appropriately.