{"id":2406,"date":"2025-11-13T11:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T11:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/millga\/?page_id=2406"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:53:16","slug":"advance-your-business-english-starting-20-november","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/millga\/advance-your-business-english-starting-20-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Advance Your Business English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Gareth Mills. Welcome to the blog. I will post important course information for the group here .<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you need to contact me,\u00a0 please do so via my\u00a0 email address:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0gareth.mills@folkuniversitetet.se<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is also the best way to send your written tasks so I can correct them\u00a0 and give feedback, either as part of an email or a Word document.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Course : 5 lessons\u00a0 from 20 november to 18 December<\/p>\n<p>Room: 533<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course Book<\/strong>: Email English\u00a0 &#8211; P.Emmerson<\/p>\n<p>Ferdosi Media Bookshop,\u00a0 Address: Odengatan 21, Stockholm or order online :<\/p>\n<p>ISBN 978-0-230-44855-1<\/p>\n<p>Other books that are for self-study<\/p>\n<p>Business Vocabulary in Use &#8211; Intermediate (ISBN 978-1-316-62998-7) or Advanced (ISBN 978-1-316-62822-5)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lesson 1\u00a0 Course Introuction &#8211; Student Introductions, Use of English,<\/p>\n<p>Course Needs Analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Grammar Correction<\/p>\n<p>Lesson\u00a0 2- Improving Grammar Accuracy\u00a0 &#8211; verb forms<\/p>\n<p>Vocabualry &#8211; Working Conditions + Work Environment<\/p>\n<p>Lesson 3 &#8211; Being Professional + Polite\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Formal v Informal Language<\/p>\n<p>Writing Emails\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\/\u00a0 \u00a0 Job Applications<\/p>\n<p>Lesson 4 &#8211; Marketing Vocabulary &#8211; Product Decsription<\/p>\n<p>Describing Business Trends<\/p>\n<p>Lesson 5\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Presentations\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Meetings\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Negotiations<\/p>\n<p>The future &#8211; Careers \/Technology<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Homework<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lesson 4\u00a0 \u00a0Unit 30+31\u00a0 Describing trends<\/p>\n<p>Units 20\/21\u00a0 Meetings\/Negotioaitions<\/p>\n<p>Presentations \u2013 If you want you can prepare a 10-minute presentation for the last class. Just let me know in advance if you want to and if you intend to use any visuals or other resources.<\/p>\n<p>Write a product description, marketing plan and\/or sales report of a product\/service sold by your company.<\/p>\n<p>Or\u00a0 Describe some economic or social trends that have affected you?<\/p>\n<p>Describe some business trends that have affected your business?<\/p>\n<p>Lesson 3\u00a0 \u00a0 Unit 13\u00a0 &#8211; Punctuation and spelling<\/p>\n<p>Marketing\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Unit 20+21<\/p>\n<p>Write 3 emails \u2013 use a consistent professional, formal tone with each one. I will not answer your emails but I will correct\/improve them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Send an email to me (Gareth Mills \u2013The Kiwi English Language Agency) enquiring about the possibility of providing an in-house, English course for your staff.<\/li>\n<li>Send an email confirming details about the schedule, what the course should include, how many and who will be on it, and set up a meeting to discuss cost and anything else.<\/li>\n<li>Send an email of complaint \u2013 state what the problem is and what I should do about it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>or\u00a0 \u00a0Write a cover email applying for a job (look at unit 26 first) \u2013 keep it professional<\/p>\n<p>Lesson 2\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0grammar handout<\/p>\n<p>Unit 1 Formal or Informal?\u00a0 Unit 16 Being polite+ diplomatic<\/p>\n<p>Write about the working conditions \/ work environment of<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>your first job<\/li>\n<li>most recent\/ current job and\u00a0 what you would like to be better<\/li>\n<li>if you are a manager write how you could improve the work environment for your employees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lesson 1\u00a0 Unit 12 + Unit 8 Verb Forms\u00a0 \u00a0 Vocabualry handout &#8211; Work\/jobs<\/p>\n<p>Writing Task : Send me a Written Job Description, using these Headings <strong>(remember the more you write , the more you practise)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Title:<\/p>\n<p>Pre-Requisites: Previous Work Experience + Qualifications<\/p>\n<p>Tasks + Responsibilities:<\/p>\n<p>Achievements:<\/p>\n<p>Objectives:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Gareth Mills. 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If you need to contact me,\u00a0 please do so via my\u00a0 email address:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0gareth.mills@folkuniversitetet.se It is also the best way to send your written tasks so I can correct them\u00a0 and give feedback, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2406","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/millga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/millga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/millga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/millga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/millga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/millga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/millga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2406\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/millga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}