Good&Free Ressources for Learning Business English?

Hey there,

I’m taking full time English classes and I’ll take the LCCI 3 (B2-C1) test in a few months. Do you know any good, free ressources for Business English?

I’m particularly interested in reading e-mails, letters, CVs and listening to “authentic business conversations” :).

Not sure if this helps or not.

Reading e-mails, letters, CVs:
Perhaps getting an account on linkedin.com and searching for posts and CVs of people in the industry you want to target may be an approach.

“authentic business conversations”:

Reading trade journals on the sort of business you are most interested in is probably closest here, as they will often write up interviews etc with people in that industry.

These are pretty high level, and may not be what you are after:

CNN, and others, do transcripts of business interviews and news → CNN.com - Transcripts
Here’s Anderson Cooper → CNN.com - Transcripts
Here’s the business feed → CNN.com - Transcripts

Freakonomics has podcasts and transcripts, but pretty high level business/econ: http://freakonomics.com/category/freakonomics-radio/transcripts/podcast-transcripts/

Tyler Cowan has a new podcast series with transcripts, but again pretty high level : http://mercatus.org/expert_commentary/mercatus-center-george-mason-university-launches-conversations-tyler-event-series

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Paul, after hundreds of hours of conversation with you, I’m fairly confident that you’re going to fail the B2 level test.

Your pal,
David

No seriously, do you really need to practice this stuff?

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Thank you very much iaing :slight_smile:

I’d rather be safe than sorry^^

@ David - Seriously, I had the same reaction! :slight_smile:

Hey Paul,
How are you doing?
I have a big group focused on Business English and most of the time they are not motivated enough to study at home.
For that I created an activity based on the movie “The Founder”. (English With Movies: The Founder). After that I also complemented the task with an activity from the site Lingua House (https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/business-english/competition). The feedback from my students was very positive once they could connect the lesson with some real situations.
Let me know if you this works for you?!