Name: Learn Business English Vocabulary | Fluent English For Work with TV Series
Uploaded: 2020-10-23T19:08:19.000Z
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Hello everyone how are you doing today I'm  sure you're here because you want to get  

professional and learn business english right well  you might think that business english is kind of a  

Future simple

boring subject but it doesn't have to be  and today we are going to make it both fun  

and memorable for you by teaching it to you  with some of your favorite tv series aww yeah  

so business english as you might already imagine  is an area of english that deals with the context  

of business now this is one of the areas of  english that receives the most attention and it  

business english is just such a broad term you probably think about  

it as just the words that you need to learn to  be able to use in a business context right but in  

fact in many ways it is also about the technique  now when you learn words for business english you  

probably need to learn them related to meetings  presentations job interviews and negotiation  

but you also need to learn the technique that  is associated with those different areas so for  

example if we look at job interviews not only do  you need to know the words that you will need if  

you have an interview in english but it's also  important that you know how to talk about your  

past work experience and career goals in english  and another common misconception that I hear from  

english learners all the time is that they think  that they only have to learn formal english to  

be able to communicate in business context but  business english often is and should be informal  

so in this lesson we will teach you different bits  of language and give you advice so you know what  

to say and how to say it but of course before we  jump into the lesson I wanted to let you know that  

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new lessons let's begin with the english that  you're likely to use at the workplace but first of  

all what is the workplace now at the start of the  session i'll had you write down an incident that  

you found offensive in the workplace now what I'm  going to do is choose one and we're going to act  

the workplace is the place where people work  such as an office or factory similarly the  

workforce is all the people who work in  a particular industry or company we just  

fired one-third of their workforce it's  unseemly to go through their pockets as well

let's talk meetings now in companies  people arrange meetings to brainstorm  

ideas find solutions to problems and figure  out courses of action on a certain activity

in this lesson we're including text definitions  of some words highly relevant to this topic don't  

miss out on them and feel free to pause the video  if you need more reading time let's start with the  

basic collocations that go with the word meeting  some of the main ones are to arrange a meeting  

which means to organize one similarly when you  call a meeting you decide a meeting is necessary  

so that a certain topic can be discussed michael  bluth had called a meeting with the family's  

long-time attorney to discuss his father's  incarceration I am so sorry he was a client  

to hold a meeting means to direct a meeting in  a more casual tone you can say to run a meeting  

would you want me to write a meeting for yourself  uh or even better could you mail this letter for  

me you can't just give that to a mailman I can't  trust a mailman with this this is important  

then you attend a meeting which is the formal  alternative to simply saying go to a meeting  

we said that in meetings people try to figure out  or define a course of action this is the set of  

actions to be taken people often also say plan  of action or poa for short what's your course of  

action here saul's guy kooby tracks him down which  shouldn't take long and when he does I'm gonna

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now of course meetings are also the place  where people discuss different issues and  

agree or disagree on some different ideas now  when expressing your opinion in english it can be  

a little bit tricky you need to be cautious  and polite when you're doing this in a  

business context especially if you are trying  to communicate some strong idea that you have  

so let's take a look at some ways that you can do  this in such cases it's always a safe option to  

start your statement with in my opinion or from  my point of view michael scott here uses this  

expression although the general idea is not very  business wow what a day feels more like a night  

at a party than a day at work well in my opinion  business should feel like a night out night at

the there's roxbury to be music if you want  to state a strong opinion then you could say  

for example to be perfectly frank I  think we should terminate this contract  

on account of that they've failed  to deliver the goods on time

like meetings the realm of presentations is very  

wide ranging and we can only hope to  scratch the surface with this lesson  

now if you're giving a presentation it's really  important that you're able to put emphasis on  

certain points so that you can kind of drive home  the point that you're making that is you can kind  

of put strength behind your message now of course  one way that you could do this is by using words  

like a lot really or very but if you do this  too much it can sound very repetitive it can  

be ineffective and it can even sound a little bit  boring so you'll kind of lose your audience now  

we're going to look at some better ways that you  can do this but first let's start off with a quiz  

which of these can we not use as an alternative  to vary or a lot painfully fully heavily

trick question all these are actually great  alternatives to use painfully as in it's painfully  

obvious clear evident apparent it may be possible  that nelson actually believes he didn't have  

that much to do with the founding of pied piper  either because but it is painfully obvious that  

he had a huge hand in it you could say fully in  collocations such as fully aware accept understand  

fully booked informed etc good news the majority  of the nation's networks are fully operational  

I hardly call that good news senator and  you know full well it wasn't the chinese  

I fully believe that a woman should be in charge  of what happens to her body in this case the body  

is anne's and the woman in charge of it is me you  could say heavily in collocations like heavily  

involved criticized dependent reliant influenced  it seems that as a 13 year old george michael had  

been heavily influenced by the star wars films and  had endeavoured to recreate his favorite moments  

we suspect rex wolf is laying low in a  breakaway territory in eastern moldova  

this area is heavily dependent on  contraband and drug running and  

unfortunately the u.s has no  intelligence or diplomatic presence there  

lastly you could say sharply to describe a rise  or drop in a presentation about numbers example  

oil prices fell sharply these measures could  sharply reduce pollution from road traffic talking  

about numbers is another significant component of  business presentations we need to become familiar  

with ways we can use to describe compare and  contrast numbers and interpret and explain charts  

to describe a decline or a decrease in numbers  you could use drop fall and dip their share of  

the market dropped to 50 this year prices fell  sharply yesterday profits dipped slightly last  

year but if numbers experience a sharp decrease  you could say slump crash collapse or plummet 4  

28 in the morning here in the oc I'm john beard  well there is some more grim economic news today  

the housing prices continue to plummet and the  economy say it may take swipe some what are  

you what are you doing you could also say in the  recession the company's profits plunged 60 sales  

slumped by 20 last year to describe an increase in  numbers you can use climb rise and go up example  

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