BUSINESS ENGLISH

B Y M R . PA B L O C A R D E N A S
PI ENGLISH SCHOOL
 Ice breaking activity
Say your full name and answer the following questions:

Are you a dog person or a cat person? Do you like pizza or burgers?

 Would you rather have one life lasting 1000 years or live What superpower would you like to have for
10 lives at 100 years each? one day?
 What do you do?
10 most common Jobs in Mexico
• Business management • Engineering
• Accountant • Medicine
• Lawyer • Nursing
• Elementary Teacher • Psychology
• Information Technology • Computer Science
Which Jobs are easy? Difficult?
Exciting? Boring? Why?

Are these good Jobs for students?

What are other part-time Jobs?
 Activity
Complete the word map with Jobs from the list.
• Accountant Office Work Food Service
• Cashier ___________________ ___________________
• Chef ___________________ ___________________
• Dancer ___________________ ___________________
• Flight attendant ___________________ ___________________
• Musician ___________________ ___________________
• Pilot
• Receptionist Travel Industry Entertainment Business
• Server ___________________ ___________________
• Singer ___________________ ___________________
• Tour guide ___________________ ___________________
• Web desinger ___________________ ___________________
___________________ ___________________

Add two more jobs to each category.

 Grammar Focus
Complete the sheets given by the
teacher.
 What is Business English?
• Language for business situations

• English in business usage, especially the

styles and forms of business correspondence
• Useful language for getting a job.

• Business English is a form of international

English.
• Useful language and phrases to improve your
spoken/written communication skills in English in
different business situations.
• For some, Business English focuses on the vocabulary
used in the world of commerce, trade, finance,
professions, politics and international relations.
 Vocabulary •
•
Laboral
Management
• Accountant • Card • Employer • Negotiation
• Accounting • Career • Entrepreneur • Organization
• Advertise • Cash • Equipment • Paperwork
• Affordable • Client • Estimate • Production
• Agreement • Close • Executive • Resume
• Benefits • Commercial • Expenses • Retail
• Bonus • Commision • Exchange • Salary
• Borrow • Contract • Export • Shipment
• Boss • Corporate • Factory • Storehouse
• Budget • Corporation • Growth • Import
• Business • Competition • Incentive • Owner
• Buy • Customer • Income • Payment
• Buyer • Demand • Insurance • Receipt
• Calculate • Efficiency • Intern • Wage
• Capital • Employee • Interest rate • Win-win
 Activity
Work in pairs!
Write down a comercial for a product of your
choice. Then pass to the front of the classroom
and read it.

Finger claws Bunny double pourer

Diet water Control Remote Mop

Bottleneck
Lemon Juice
sprayer
 Why do we have to use English in
Business?
• English is Global.
• Most employees use English primarily at work.

Machine button labels Safety signs

Industrial Hazard Labels

• Labor field has become more competitive.
 Activity
Divide the group by the half. Each half
will be a team. A member of each team
will be given a sentence which he/she
will write scrambbled in the board.
The teams will take turns to add a
word to the sentence.
___ ________ _____ __ ___ ____ _______ .
The customer wants to buy ten sodas.

___ ____ ______ ___ ___ ____ _____ _________ .

My boss asked me to do some paperwork.
___ ________ __ ___ ______ ____ _______ .
The expenses of the project are high.

___ ___________ ______ ___ ______.

The accountant’s name is Oscar.
 Resume
1. Add your contact information
2. Include a summary and objective
3. Add your work experience
4. Include your education 
5. List relevant skills
6. Explain your achievements and awards
7. Use a business format
8. Include keywords
9. Review samples
10.Select a template
 Resume Template
[Name]
[Address]
[Phone number]
[Email address]
[Link to website, portfolio or professional networking profile]
Objective (or Summary)
[Use two to three short statements to describe your career goals. For a summary, list your achievements and experience]
Experience
[Title]
[Company name]
[Dates of employment]
[Bulleted list of responsibilities]
Qualifications
[List relevant training and qualifications including details of awarding bodies and when they were completed]
Education
[Degree, diploma or certification]
[Awarding body]
[Dates]
[Academic achievements]
Skills
[Use bullet points, infographics or other simple ways to show your skills]
 Example
Sandra Belvedere •Meet clients, allocate resources to projects and liaise
Nashville, TN with other departments
418-823-6971 In-house graphic designer
sandra.belvedere@email.com Blue Note Industries
SandraBelvedere.com April 2012–June 2015
Objective •Designed packaging for new products
Innovative graphic designer, experienced in working •Created designs for website landing pages
with agencies and directly with clients, seeking an •Designed brochure, leaflets and other sales materials
opportunity to leverage exceptional creativity in the Education
third sector. Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design, Overton University
Experience 2009–2012
Senior graphic designer Awarded "Work of Distinction" for final project
Webster and Zedane Skills
June 2015–Present •Marketing and sales
•Design award-winning ad campaign for Green Mile •Time management
Electric Cars •Prioritization
•Use AutoCAD to design exhibition stand materials for •Accuracy and attention to detail
Excellon
•Brief design team, pass on client feedback and
coordinate revisions
 Activity
Build your own resume using the
template showed before.
IMPORTANCE OF
BUSINESS
ENGLISH
Communication Advantage

Business
Leverage

Respect Leadership
Career growth
Confidence
Internet
 Problems that can be lessened
with good business English
• Wrong choice of words
• Poor interpersonal relationships
• Low Self-Esteem
• Misconception of messages
• Loss of words
• Limited ideas
• Poor analysis of issues
 Closing activity
Pictionary!
Two teams. One team-member will
draw a given word. The rest of the
team will try to guess the word. 3
minutes per round. The team with 10
points wins.