Our Teaching Business English course at ELC Brighton is perfect for teachers of Business English who work in adult education, or if you are a teacher working in vocational college settings or further education. ELC Brighton is the largest school in the ELC group, and we’re situated a short walking distance from the beach in the west part of the city.
Business English refers to the language and skills required to communicate effectively in English within a business or commercial context. Teaching Business English could encompass both the teaching purely of business-related English language skills, or the teaching of Business Studies through the medium of the English language (as is the case with CLIL - content and language integrated learning).
Our Teaching Business English course is a practical, in-depth and incredibly helpful programme designed to improve the skills of teachers who work predominantly in the area of Business English.
It provides you with plenty of opportunities to develop your general language skills and review aspects of contemporary Britain while you study here. Each session within the course focuses on different aspects of teaching Business English, including intercultural awareness, using a business approach to grammar, and developing industry-specific vocabulary.
Our Teaching Business English course is perfect if you are a teacher looking to increase your skills within the Business English arena, particularly in adult education, vocational college or further education.
At ELC in Brighton we offer an intensive 2-week course designed to develop your skills in Teaching Business English. You study for 30 lessons (22.5 hours) each week from Monday to Friday, providing you with a total of 45 hours of tuition. Courses start in July and August.
Once you book your course, we’ll send you a preparation pack, and before the start of the course we ask you to complete a pre-course questionnaire which will enable the course leaders to plan the Teaching Business English course so that it meets your needs, and those of your fellow participants.
Our Teaching Business English course is designed to:
At the conclusion of the course you should have:
The Teaching Business English course at ELC Brighton may be suitable for European Union funding through Erasmus+. This has changed since Brexit so please contact your National Agency. See our guide on how to apply for EU funding.
The minimum number required for the Teaching Business English course is four students. In the event that we receive fewer than four students, please be assured that we will not cancel your booking. Instead, we will give you 20 lessons per week of General English in the morning with 10 lessons in the afternoon focusing on language teaching methodology, in a one-to-one, two-to-one or three-to-one class, as appropriate.
This course is perfect for teachers seeking to develop their language skills and abilities in the field of Business English, where you either teach English to business students, or you are involved in teaching business-related subjects in the English language, where English is not your first language. You need to be over 21 years old or older, and you should already be at CEFR B1 to CEFR C1+ level of English language ability.
We will ask you to complete a comprehensive pre-course questionnaire where you can tell us which areas you would like to improve and what your goals are. The course is then designed by the trainer to try to address the needs of all course participants.
All our teachers' courses are normally 2 weeks. It may be possible to study for 1 week only but we would normally ask that you choose the first week of the course. Please contact us for availability.
No, we don’t have a student car park available. However, there is a public car park about 5 minutes’ walk from the school. The price is around £7 per day.
London Gatwick airport is the nearest airport to Brighton, then London Heathrow airport. From Gatwick there are direct trains to Brighton (about 35 minutes) and direct coaches (about 55 minutes). From Heathrow there are direct coaches (about 2 hours 15 minutes). Alternatively we can arrange taxi transfers. These take about 35 minutes from Gatwick to your accommodation and 75-90 minutes from Heathrow.
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Our language learning levels relate closely to how the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) define them, but with a difference which we have found to help our students at Elementary level.
| ELC level | Equivalent CEFR levels | |
|---|---|---|
| A0 | ||
| A1 | ||
| Upper A1 | Lower A2 | |
| A2 | ||
| B1 | ||
| B2 | ||
| C1 | ||
| C2 | ||
We offer an English level test which anyone can take. It involves 50 questions and, depending on your level, will probably take you from 10 to 20 minutes. At the end of it, we will tell you your probable level.
But when you book, we will ask you to take a more detailed and accurate test, to make sure that you start in the class which is best for you.