Adult English Course
Business English
Garnet Business Update
Garnet:
This course is for young adults who are working or going to work in business and who need English. They may be in part-time or full-time work, education or vocational training.
Business Update aims to ease the student into the world of work by giving a young person’s uninformed impressions of the workplace a more professional focus.
A skills section accompanies each unit, including authentic reading passages, vocabulary building and writing and research projects.
Yes, Learn:
Yes, Learn has chosen this two-level course because of its wide-ranging and comprehensive approach to introducing our students to the world of business. Additionally, our students can improve all of their language skills in a professional business context in interesting and engaging ways.
Key Focus:
This course helps you to develop the ability to think, clearly communicate, understand and participate within a business environment in English. Learn using real-life practical activities and business contexts.
The approach to learning prepares students in dealing with everyday office life, such as telephoning, working with facts and figures, taking orders and dealing with customer enquiries.
Listening
To help the students develop listening skills, there is usually a sequence of at least two activities. The first of these is generally a gist listening, and students are encouraged to relax and not worry if they do not understand everything. Completing a relatively simple task is generally all that is required. The following tasks are more complex and require a deeper understanding.
Speaking
In these speaking activities, students practise the target language of the lesson, using the files for pair work, which are to be found at the end of the Course Book. Before you do these activities, you will generally need to study both the Key language and the Language box.
Pronunciation
Each language lesson deals with a point of pronunciation which occurs in the listening activity or which is needed in the speaking tasks.
Continuous Development
To help the our students develop all four language skills, this course employs our learning methodology and transistions from one unit to the next. Yes, Learn students on this course are able to know, understand and apply what is learnt in one unit of study into the next. This is a course of continuous improvment and developement in a practical business context.
Age Range
16+
CEFR Levels
A2 – B2
Course Levels
Business Update Level 1
Pre-Intermediate:
IELTS 3.0-4.0 or CEFR Levels A2-B1
Business Update Level 2
Intermediate:
IELTS 4.0-5.0 or CEFR Levels B1-B2
Lesson Duration
Each lesson is one hour
Lesson Frequency
Flexible timetable.
2 hours a week is recommended.
Course Purpose
Business English, Adult General English, Garnet, British English, Grammar, Listening, Reading, Writing, Vocabulary, Building Confidence, day-to-day and Practical use.
What’s included?
Garnet Business Update enhanced by Yes, Learn
Live Online Learning
Additional Home Learning
Instant Messaging Learning Support
Yes, Learn Level Certificate on completion
Optional Garnet Textbook & Additional Resources
Online Lessons
Using our enhanced Garnet resources, learn with one of our Native English speaking teachers. Benefit from their experience in our virtual classroom. This also the includes Garnet provided Progress Checks which will assess how well you are doing.
Online Assessment Lessons
See how well you have been doing in our Garnet published mid-course assessments. You’ll receive a report about your learning with written feedback.
Online Review & Learning Tutorials
Online learning reviews & tutorials is provided before the mid-course assessments. We will have you a full one hour tutorial with your teacher to understand how to improve, have learning conversations and revisit challenging areas of the programme. We believe it is vital that this is included, that is why we have made it an integral part of the course.
Pre-Lesson Learning Activities
One of the learning methodologies we follow puts this at the centre of achieving outstanding student progress, so we do too.
Home Learning Activities
As learning does not just happen in the classroom, these Garnet published materials will give you the chance to revisit and practise the skills and knowledge gain in the classroom. Each activity is marked by our team and returned with model answers for you to keep for reference and practise.
English Essentials
These guides and activities will help to further secure the basic at your level of English language acquisition. You may work through them at your own pace. Each will be marked and returned to you with the model answers.
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Course Description
Key Benefits:
- Two Levels:
Business Update Level 1: Which is at the Pre-Intermediate level. Equivalent to 3.0-4.0 or CEFR Levels A2-B1
Business Update Level 2: This level is matched to the Intermediate. Suitable for IELTS 4.0-5.0 or CEFR Levels B1-B2
- Hands-on:
Practical and continuous learning in preparation for life a business environment is the most important benefit of this varied and comprehensive course. Students who have completed Level 1 of the course should be ready to do the optional BEC Preliminary exam, though they may need some extra, specific exam practice. Most students who complete Level 2 will have done good preparation for the optional BEC Vantage exam, though they will need additional exam preparation.
- Reading:
The reading activities are for both gist and in-depth reading, and aim to develop students’ ability to deal with the different types of text Yes, Learn students will encounter in authentic work situations and in their exams.
- The vocabulary work:
This includes tasks on different lexical fields, as well as vocabulary-building activities. The reading activities are followed by discussion work, which is of a more general nature than the speaking activities in the language input spreads, and should help our students prepare for the interview part of the BEC Preliminary or other exams.
- Writing:
The writing tasks are of the various kinds to be found in work settings and exams such as the BEC
- Preliminary:
They may be simple form filling, letters or e-mails. They may also be more extensive (letters, short reports, etc.) or personal in nature (e-mails and letters to friends). The writing activities will also help to consolidate the language work done in class.
- Project work:
The project work and research topics should encourage our students to use resources, essentially the Internet. Our students may need help and guidance with this, which is provided by our experienced teachers.
- Progress checks:
There are review sections after several groups of units. These provide a clear indication of our students’ progress and areas for improvement .
Yes, Learn:
Business Update by Garnet Education enhanced by Yes, Learn is our best general business course to start with. It provides a well-rounded learning experience in a broad range of practical business concepts. Business English skills are vital for getting ahead in your career. If working effectively in an international environment is your goal, improving your business English vocabulary and knowledge is a must. And equally, if you currently or plan to work in business environment in your home country, then improving your business English is essential. Generally, it will open many doors and bring new career opportunities.
Take your English to the next level
Learning business English will help you to improve your existing English skills as well as build up new knowledge. You will study vocabulary and expressions specific for your area of work, you will learn how to write business correspondence and do other practical work-related tasks and, at the same time, you will have a chance to polish your general English including grammar and pronunciation. On top of that, you will become more confident when speaking English due to practice and the interactive activities included in a business English course. You will be able to hold a conversation on both general and business-related topics. Business Update by Garnet Education enhanced by Yes, Learn will take you there.
Understand how the business world works
We are living in a world of constantly growing levels of globalisation, interconnectivity and intercommunication. There are business relations between companies from all over the world which makes the need to use a common language in communication rather obvious. While studying business English you will learn how international companies collaborate with one another, how they do business and build professional relationships. Simultaneously, improving your business English skills can have a great impact on your future career allowing you to advance faster than you’ve ever expected.
Get the job you want
Communication skills are essential for getting ahead at work. Improving your professional business vocabulary and knowledge will help you work more effectively and open up new career opportunities. Business Update by Garnet Education enhanced by Yes, Learn is a great place to start.
A good level of business English can help you get the job which you wouldn’t land without the knowledge of this global language in business context. Nowadays it’s rather indispensable to be able to express yourself confidently on a variety of topics in business environment if your intention is to have an interesting and well-paid position in a multinational. Even smaller companies, more often than not, do business with their foreign partners and, consequently, require their employees to have the ability to communicate freely both in written and spoken English.
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– Peter, Co-founder of Yes, Learn (inspired by many great leaders in education and business).
What is the CEFR?
The overall aim of the Council of Europe’s Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) is to provide objective criteria for describing and assessing language proficiency in an internationally comparable manner.
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This is why Yes, Learn has reviewed this course and with consultation agreed to add it to the courses that we offer.
Garnet:
Business Update provides students with the English skills they need for business, using a carefully planned combination of task-based and multifunctional practice. It teaches specialist vocabulary and provides authentic business scenarios in which skills can be practised. The approach to learning prepares students to deal with everyday office life, such as telephoning, working with facts and figures, taking orders and dealing with customer enquiries.
Level 1
The Workbook comprises of 15 companion units that have follow-up activities which practise skills such as reading, writing, listening, vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar. There is a quiz in each unit to help students monitor their progress.
Level 2
The Workbook comprises 12 companion units that have follow-up activities which practise skills such as reading, writing, listening, vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar. There is a quiz in each unit to help students monitor their progress.
Levels 1 & 2
The units provide 120+ hours of extensive practice and reference material, using many sectors of the business world as inspiration. A skills section accompanies each unit, including authentic reading passages, vocabulary building and writing and research projects.
Yes, Learn
Course Combinations
Having one reason to study in mind sets clear goals for our students. However, many of our students choose a second course to support their primary area of study. Studying a Business English course with Phonics & Pronunciation will result in better outcomes and learning.
Contact us for course combinations that are advantageous to your personal learning goals.
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