Oral Business English

Why can you trust the School of Graduate and Professional Education with your training?

Our Trainers are our greatest asset, and we are proud to have a highly-trained and experienced team eager to support you on your learning journey.

All of our Trainers:

• are adult learning experts who teach and train only adults
• are certified Business English Trainers
• have been delivering instruction online since 2013
• keep up to date with the latest developments in Business English training
• are regularly observed by experienced academic managers
• are committed to helping you achieve your goals

The course is for professionals from all industries who wish to gain confidence and strengthen their oral skills in English in order to communicate more effectively in a variety of contexts.

Our community of learners includes past participants from the following industries: pharma; engineering and construction; banking; the media and entertainment; and energy among many others.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, you will be better able to:

• talk about yourself, your role and your company
• express ideas/opinions clearly and convincingly
• participate in discussions on a range of business-related topics
• actively contribute to meetings
• build relationships by socializing and networking confidently
• deliver effective presentations (focusing on structure and appropriate signposting language)

Oral Business English is our hugely popular 30-hour specialist training course for professionals wishing to improve oral fluency and accuracy as well as extend their business English vocabulary range. It involves carefully structured highly interactive workshops and covers topics of interest to today’s business professionals.

Why Attend?
Success in business hinges on effective communication skills. Developing oral competency in a business environment is crucial for communicating ideas, persuading, building relationships, increasing productivity and much more. This course will allow you to improve your oral skills in a dedicated adult learning environment with working professionals having similar goals. Our Trainers are at the forefront of their profession and are eager to help you achieve your personal and professional goals.

The course also provides training on:

• improving pronunciation to enhance intelligibility so you can communicate clearly and be understood (challenging English sounds, word stress, sentence stress, connected speech, intonation)
• presentation skills
• developing effective learning strategies and learner autonomy
• To fully benefit from the course, it is recommended that you are an independent user of English and are approximately at B2 level in the Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR).

Online course additional information
Whether you study in-class or online, your experience of the course will be the same. The Facilitator delivers the training live, using the Zoom platform, instead of physically being in class. You will interact with your peers and have an engaging and enjoyable learning journey while improving your Business English skills and expanding your vocabulary.

To participate online, you will need the following. For more information you can download our Online Training Guide.

• a laptop or a desktop computer (handheld devices lack certain functionalities so are unsuitable)
• a broadband speed wired Internet connection
• earphones or a headset
• a microphone (standalone or built into the earphones or headset)
• a webcam
• Zoom (it is free and will be downloaded onto your computer as soon as you click on the link you will receive from us)

Once you are online, you, your Trainer and your co-Trainees will be able to hear and see each other as well as use the chat function.   Your Trainer will be able to share her screen, write on a whiteboard and put you into online groups for collaborative work.

Your Facilitator is fully trained to deliver Oral Business English both face-to-face and virtually.  You will receive help and support throughout the course whichever delivery mode you choose, so registering for an in-class or online course just depends on your personal preferences and circumstances.

What is certain is that improving your English oral skills has never been easier.

Certificate of Participation
In order to be awarded the Certificate of Participation from the Deree – School of Graduate and Professional Education, you will need to attend 70% of the course (7 sessions), complete 7 online tasks and deliver a short presentation in week 10.

Duration
The course runs for 10 consecutive weeks and consists of a 3-hour workshop per week
(30 contact hours in total). Every Thursday 18:00-21:00.