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The Business English Podcast for Professionals
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Business English Pod provides free weekly MP3 podcast ESL lessons for intermediate and advanced business English learners. Each Business English podcast lesson is focused on a particular skill (meetings, presentations, telephoning, negotiating, socializing, travel, conversation etc.) and language function (clarifying, disagreeing, questioning, expressing opinions, persuasion etc.).
Business English Pod is suitable for English as a Second Language learners who are looking to improve their business English speaking, vocabulary and listening skills in order to be able to communicate clearly and successfully in business.
Business English Pod’s MP3 lessons feature example training dialogs with clear explanations of the target language, vocabulary, idioms and useful phrases, followed by a short practice and review session. The audio lessons can be downloaded directly from the website or transferred to your iPod or MP3 player using free software such as Apple’s iTunes program.
ESL students and teachers can join Business English Pod’s premium members community to access detailed study notes, including a full transcript, example phrases, vocabulary and language review exercises. Online quizzes, language exercises and vocabulary flashcards are also available in the new Learning Center along with our free listening quiz and sample transcripts. Business English Pod’s interactive exercises and podcasts provide a fun and effective way for business English learners to improve their listening and speaking skills online and on the go.
Business English Pod is brought to you by an expert team of language trainers with over 30 years hands-on Business English training experience with some of the worlds leading companies. Our team is able to draw on professional experience in aerospace, consulting, engineering, financial services, medical and telecommunication industries to make our podcasts relevant and applicable to the needs of our audience.
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BEP 119 INT - Telephoning: Making an Appointment
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Sun, Oct 12, 2008
In this Business English Podcast, we’ll be looking at the language used to make appointments on the telephone.
We live in the era of remote communication: teleconferencing, videoconferencing, and online meetings. More and more group efforts are getting done from a distance. In theory, at least, it’s possible to work closely with anyone in the world [...]
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BVP 04 Vocabulary - Discussing a Project
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Sun, Oct 05, 2008
When you think of projects, what comes to mind? You might think of something quite complicated and extensive, like the new office project we’ll be hearing about today. But in fact, most of the tasks we do in business are part of a project. Even something as simple as writing a proposal is a project [...]
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Video Vocab 08 - Project Management (Part 2)
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Sun, Sep 28, 2008
Video Vocab is a series of short videos explaining the meaning of important business terms related to many of the topics that are part of every day business conversations.
We continue our look at the vocabulary related to project management by looking at the words used to describe a project timeline. First we’ll hear [...]
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Video Vocab 07 - Project Management (Part 1)
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Tue, Sep 23, 2008
At long last, here’s the actual video version of this episode. Since the audio only version seems to be going down well, we’ll keep it online so listeners have a choice.
Video Vocab is a series of short videos explaining the meaning of important business terms related to many of the topics that are part of [...]
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VV 07 Project Management (Part 1) - Audio Only
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Sun, Sep 21, 2008
This is an audio only version of the podcast whilst we finish the video.
English Vocabulary for Project Management (Part 1)
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BEP 118 ADV - Negotiations: Declining an Offer whilst Maintaining Goodwill
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Sun, Sep 14, 2008
Negotiations don’t always go according to plan. Disagreement is part of life. But to build lasting relationships, coping with failure is even more important than celebrating success. So in this show, we’ll examine a deal that does not get completed. We’ll look at making a final offer as well as expressing dissatisfaction and regret. In [...]
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BEP 117 ADV - Negotiations: Clarifying and Evaluating Positions
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Sun, Sep 07, 2008
In this Business English Pod lesson we’re going to look at how to clarify and evaluate positions during a negotiation.
An important part of any discussion is making our position clear; at the same time, we must make sure we understand the other side’s point of view. Achieving mutual understanding can help us save money by [...]
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ET 03 - Business Writing: An External Request
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Sun, Aug 31, 2008
This is the third episode of our video podcast series: Email Tune-up. In today’s video we’re going to look at an email request to an external supplier asking them to speed up the delivery of a shipment.
Each video lesson features a review of a real-life email from one of our members. If you’d like [...]
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BEP 116 ADV - Presentations: Analyzing Trends
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Sun, Aug 24, 2008
In this Business English Pod episode, we’ll be completing our discussion of charts and graphs by studying language for making predictions and for supporting your predictions with analysis. We’ll also look at a couple of advanced ways to rhetorically emphasize a point. Rhetorical means using words effectively to get your message across.
Today’s listening continues [...]
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BEP 115 ADV - Presentations: Describing Trends
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Sun, Aug 17, 2008
In this episode from our e-Book on presenting in English, we’ll look at how to describe the trends show by a chart or graph. To get the background to the presentation and to review language for introducing visuals, you can refer back to BEP 103 - Charts and Trends 1.
A trend is the general direction [...]
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BVP 03 Business Vocabulary - Office Manager
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Sun, Aug 10, 2008
Today’s podcast continues our series on business vocabulary, with a special focus on collocations or word partnerships. By focusing on words that are commonly used together you can improve your vocabulary and also your ability to understand your English-speaking colleagues.
When you think of “office administration”, what are the first things that come to mind? They [...]
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BEP 114 ADV - Job Interviews: HR Review of Candidates
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Sun, Aug 03, 2008
As part of our series on job interviews, in this Business English Pod episode we’ll be taking a closer look at the process from the HR perspective. Specifically, we’ll be studying the language of reaching a decision about whom to hire.
A Brazilian business unit of fast moving consumer goods company Fun Beverages has recently interviewed [...]
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BEP 113 ADV - Job Interviews: Second Round Interviews
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Sun, Jul 27, 2008
Congratulations! You were successful in your first job round interview, and you have been called back for a second interview. What should you expect? The key word is more - there will be more questions, more pressure - and, of course, more likelihood that you will get the job.
An important function of second-round job [...]
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BEP 112 ADV - Negotiations: Getting Started
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Sun, Jul 20, 2008
This is part of an ongoing series on negotiations. In this Business English Podcast episode, we’ll study how to open a traditional commercial negotiation between buyer and seller. We’ll focus on creating goodwill, starting off, setting ground rules, suggesting an agenda and exploring possibilities.
We’ll be listening to a telephone conversation between Tony, a supplier [...]
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BEP 111 ADV - Negotiations: Relationship Building
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Sun, Jul 13, 2008
This Business English Podcast episode on relationship building is part of an ongoing series on negotiation skills.
In negotiation, establishing a good relationship based on trust makes it possible to jointly search for creative solutions, to overcome blockage and even to turn conflict into a productive force.
Both Peter and Maxine are owners of local telecommunication services [...]
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Job Interviews e-Book for ESL Now Available
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Sun, Jul 06, 2008
This is a preview of our new Business English e-book on job interviews: Successful Job Interviews for ESL.
Successful Interviews takes you through each stage of the interview process: from discussing your previous experience and accomplishments, to handling tougher questions on your weaknesses and on to the second round interview and salary negotiations. In each lesson [...]
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BEP 110 ADV - Job Interviews: Stress Questions
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Sun, Jun 29, 2008
As we’ve discussed in other episodes on job interviews, one goal of the person conducting the interview is to get you to “let your guard down.” Often, after a series of “warm-up questions,” the interviewer will give you a tough question. This will likely come “out of the blue,” that is, unexpectedly. We call these [...]
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BEP 100 ADV - Job Interviews: Salary Negotiation
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Sun, Jun 22, 2008
You’ve had your first and second interviews, you’ve performed well, and you’ve been selected. You’re one of the lucky few - you’ve succeeded: You’ve got a job offer in hand. But now comes one of the hardest parts of the whole process - negotiating your salary. If you make a mistake here, all of your [...]
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BEP 99 ADV - Negotiating: Negotiation Strategy (Part 2)
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Sun, Jun 15, 2008
This is the second in a two-part advanced business English lesson on negotiation strategy. It is part of a longer series of podcasts on the language and skills of negotiating in English.
In the first episode, management consultant Bryan Fields discussed the basics of making a deal. We learned how to avoid some top common [...]
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BEP 98 ADV - Negotiating: Negotiation Strategy (Part 1)
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Sun, Jun 08, 2008
This is the beginning of a new Business English Podcast series on the skills and language of negotiating in English for ESL. We'll explore the topic of negotiations in a series of podcasts that examine several typical business negotiations and the language used in each stage of the process.
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Email Tune-up 02 - ESL Business Writing Video
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Sun, Jun 01, 2008
This is the second episode of our new ESL video podcast series: Email Tune-up. In today's video we examine a very common type of email - a request for feedback on a document.
Each video lesson features a review of a real-life email from one of our members. After reviewing the background and contents of the email, we'll then see what improvements we can make by analyzing the writing according to 3 main criteria: mechanics, style and tone.
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BEP 97 ADV - Talking about the Economy
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Sun, May 25, 2008
In this Business English Podcast lesson, we'll be studying some phrases and vocabulary that you can use to discuss the economy and economic issues, including voicing and reassuring concerns.
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BEP 96 INT - Socializing: Business Meals & Dining Out
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Sun, May 18, 2008
In most parts of the world, having lunch or dinner together is an important part of doing business. In places such as North America, eating meals is a way of building a relationship or celebrating a partnership. And in other cultures, such as China, much of the real work of making deals actually often gets [...]
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BEP 95 ADV - Communication: Resolving Conflict (Part 2)
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Sun, May 11, 2008
This is the second in a two-part Business English Podcast lesson on resolving conflict, in which we’ve been focusing on solving everyday disagreements in the office. Ben, a new training specialist at a manufacturing company, feels that he is doing an unfair share (that is, too much) of the work in his department. Gerry, Ben’s [...]
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BEP 94 ADV - Communication: Resolving Conflict (Part 1)
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Sun, May 04, 2008
People do not always get along, so dealing with conflict is part of any job. And as often as not, work disagreements get resolved as much as in informal discussions in the hallway, as they do in the conference room. So, in this two-part series on resolving conflict, we’ll be studying useful language for discussing [...]
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Email Tune-up 01 - ESL Business Writing Video Podcast
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Sun, Apr 27, 2008
Today, we’re launching a new video podcast series: Email Tune-up
Each video will feature a review of a real-life email from one of our members. After reviewing the background and contents of the email, we’ll then see what improvements we can make by analyzing the writing according to 3 main criteria:
1. Mechanics - the grammar, punctuation, [...]
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BEP 93 INT - Sales: Taking an Order
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Sun, Apr 20, 2008
In this Business English Pod episode, we’ll be focusing on the language of taking an order and discussing standard terms, such as delivery time, payment method, and so on.
The listening takes us back to the Foxtrot showroom in Las Vegas. As you’ll recall, Foxtrot is the American distributor for Viva, an Italian clothing, or [...]
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BEP 92 INT - Sales: Features, Advantages, Benefits (or FAB Presentation)
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Sun, Apr 13, 2008
In this Business English Podcast lesson, we're going to look at the "classic sales" approach to selling products and services using the FAB technique. FAB stands for features, attributes and benefits and is a commonly used approach to presenting and selling tangible objects such as clothes and household items.
The FAB presentation technique is especially useful for people working in the manufacturing and retail trade - anyone who has to present products to potential customers. In the lesson, we'll look at how this approach can be applied in the Merchandizing business. Merchandizing is the trade name for businesses involved in the design and manufacture of clothing and household items.
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BEP 91 ADV - Job Interviews: Asking the Interviewer Questions
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Sun, Apr 06, 2008
There is one question that you will definitely be asked in any job interview, a question for which you should always prepare a response. That is: “Do you have any questions for me?”
In this Business English Podcast lesson, we will focus on how to deal with this question. We’ll talk about what interviewers expect from [...]
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BEP 90 ADV - Job Interviews: Talking about Your Greatest Weakness
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Sun, Mar 30, 2008
In this advanced Business English Podcast we continue to look at the language and skills of interviewing for jobs in English.
So far in this series, we’ve examined two common question themes that you will likely be asked in almost any interview. They were, “Tell me about your previous experience?”, and “What is your most [...]
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BVP 02: Human Resources - Training Manager
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Wed, Mar 26, 2008
In the second part of our new ESL podcast series on business vocabulary, we continue with the topic of human resources (HR) by looking at useful language and collocations to describe the role and responsibilities of a training manager.
In this fast-changing global world, everything is moving. To make a successful business, it’s not enough just [...]
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BVP 01 - Human Resources: HR Manager
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Sun, Mar 23, 2008
In this new series of podcasts, we're going to look at useful vocabulary for describing different jobs and industries. In the first business vocabulary podcast we are going to listen to Greg, an HR manager, describe his role as a human resources manager.
In particular, we'll practice a number of common collocations associated with HR and human resources. Collocations, or word partnerships, are words that are commonly used together.
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BEP 89 INT - Telephoning: Making Travel Arrangements
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Sun, Mar 16, 2008
In this Business ESL Podcast lesson we're going to look at useful language for making arrangements by telephone. In particular, we'll practice language for handling the practical details of a business visit, such as airport pickup and restaurant or hotel booking. And we'll also practice ways to create and maintain goodwill by demonstrating flexibility and responding politely on the phone.
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BEP 88 INT - Telephoning: Booking a Travel Ticket
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Sun, Mar 09, 2008
In this intermediate ESL Business English Podcast, we will practice useful vocabulary and language for making airplane and hotel arrangements on the telephone.
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BEP 87 ADV - Job Interviews: Talking about Accomplishments (Part 2)
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Sun, Mar 02, 2008
In this Business English Podcast episode, we examine another good response to the question about previous experience and describing your accomplishments in job interviews. We'll be looking at someone with a little more work experience: Yala Santos is an HR specialist who is working in a manufacturing company. She now has an opportunity to interview for an HR manager position in a business unit of a fast moving consumer goods company, Fun Beverages International. Let's listen to how Yala deals with talking about her greatest achievement.
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BEP 86 ADV - Job Interviews: Talking about Accomplishments (Part 1)
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Sun, Feb 24, 2008
In this Business English Podcast episode, we'll be listening to a bad and good version of a recent graduate discussing his greatest accomplishment. We’ll focus on language for providing examples of the positive personal characteristics that our previous success demonstrates.
As you're very likely to be asked this question in an interview, you should be ready with a reply. Interviewers want to hear about something important that you handled. Choose an achievement that is significant to you and that is rich in detail. These two qualities will make it easy to provide examples, which is the main theme of this series.
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BEP 85 INT - Sales: Informal Product Presentation
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Sun, Feb 17, 2008
In today's Business English Podcast, we explore the language of presenting your products and services to potential customers in informal situations. In many countries, informal occasions - such as a friendly meal or a game of a golf - are more important to the sales process than a formal presentation. So in this podcast, we'll be studying language for presenting our products in such informal situations. In particular, we'll see how you can sell your products in relation to your customers' needs with a few soft-sell techniques.
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