“English for Business Purpose”

Name : Gausvami Surbhi A.

SEM : 3

Paper no : 12, ELT-1

Submitted to: Dr. Dilip Barad,

Department of English,

MKBU university.

Roll No: 23

Enrollment No: 2069108420170008

Email id: gausvamisurbhi17@gmail.com

English for Business Purposes

• # Definition of EBP

• “ The careful research and design of pedagogical materials and activities for an identifiable group of adult learners within a specific learning content”

• Design to meet specified needs of the learner.

Classification of EBP

• ENGLISH FOR GENERAL Business purpose EGBP

• English for Specific Business Purpose

ESBP

Writing in EBP

• Formal and informal Emails

• Profiles of Business leaders

• Describing figures

• Report writing

Listening in EBP

• Listening and note-taking

• Listening for Gist

• Listening for details

Speaking in EBP

• Making small talks

• Telephoning

• Presentation

• Negotiating

• Meetings

Business Vocabulary

• advantage• advertisement• Confirmation• output• production• Profit• margin• supply• factory• loss• employer

• accept• discount• sell• produce• structure• purchase• calculate• measure• increase• authorize• maintain

Important elements of Business

(1) Meetings

(2) Conference calls

(3) Presentation

(4) Negotiation

(5) Emails/Reports

Meetings

• Purposes

• Outcomes

• Date

• Time

• Venue

• Agenda

Conference Calls

• Before the call

(1) Are we all on?’

(2) ‘Can everybody hear me?’

• During the call

(1) ‘Could you speak more slowly please?’

(2) ‘I’m afraid I didn’t get that’

• After the call

(1) ‘We’ve covered everything we needed to talk about so I’m going to hang up now.’

Presentation

• Include only the necessary information

• Lead with your main point• Let yourself, not your slides,

shine• Rehearse beforehand• Let your personality show• Keep your energy up• Use "bridges" when going

from topic to topic• Use body language to

connect with your audience• Keep it simple

Negotiations

• Focus on the first 5 minutes

• Start higher than what you'd feel satisfied with

• You should make your arguments first

• Show that you're passionate

• Drink coffee

• Convince the other party that time is running out

• Provide them with as much data as possible

Emails/Reports

• Subject Line• Simplified Sentences• Think of who your reader is

going to be(1) Thank you for your email dated

15th February(2) Formal – I am afraid I will not be

able to attend• Be very careful of capital letters,

punctuation, spelling and basic grammar

• Think about how direct or indirect you want to be

(1) Direct – There will be a delayIndirect – I’m afraid there may be a slight delay.

Continue…

• Think about how direct or indirect you want to be

(1) Direct – There will be a delayIndirect – I’m afraid there may be a slight delay.

• Be positive!

• Helpful, good question, agreed, together, useful, I will do my best, mutual, opportunity.

• Get feedback

Business English

• Informal English • Got

• Need

• Make sure

• Give

• Let them know

• Tell why

• Talk more

• Fix the problem

• Formal English• Received

• Require

• Ensure

• Provide

• Inform

• Explain

• Elaborate

• Solve