Business English for clear professional communication

Is this the right course for you?

Use this course when English is part of your work: email, meetings, proposals, freelance clients, interviews, presentations or difficult conversations.

The course contains 15 modules and 54 lessons. It is free and public. The stated study time is typical guided-learning time, and your own pace may be different.

What you will be able to do

• Can classify a message's register and rewrite it one register up or down, then prove it in the final checkpoint.
• Can deliver a structured one-minute introduction of role and company (the BEC mini-presentation shape), then prove it in the final checkpoint.
• Can structure subject line, opening, body and close for an internal email, then prove it in the final checkpoint.
• Can run a work call through its four moves and confirm actions before hanging up, then prove it in the final checkpoint.
• Can clear a realistic six-item inbox producing four written artifacts and one spoken one, then prove it in the final checkpoint.
• Can follow an agenda-driven discussion and state agreement or disagreement with a reason, then prove it in the final checkpoint.
• Review your own work with a practical checklist instead of guessing whether it is good.

Your course roadmap

1. Module 1: The Professional Register Reset, 4 lessons at B1.
2. Module 2: Introductions, Small Talk and Networking, 4 lessons at B1.
3. Module 3: Professional Email 1: Inside the Company, 3 lessons at B1.
4. Module 4: Phone and Video Calls, 3 lessons at B1.
5. Module 5: Stage A Capstone: The Inbox Simulation, 2 lessons at B1.
6. Module 6: Meetings 1: Taking Part, 3 lessons at B1 to B2.
7. Module 7: Professional Email 2: Clients and Customers, 4 lessons at B1 to B2.
8. Module 8: Freelancer Client English (Fiverr and Upwork), 4 lessons at B1 to B2.
9. Module 9: Data, Reports and Proposals, 4 lessons at B2.
10. Module 10: Stage B Capstone: The Meeting Pack, 3 lessons at B2.
11. Module 11: The Diplomacy Ladder, 5 lessons at B2+.
12. Module 12: Leading the Room: Meetings 2 and Presentations, 4 lessons at B2+.
13. Module 13: Negotiation, 4 lessons at B2+.
14. Module 14: Job Interviews and Career English, 4 lessons at B2+.
15. Module 15: Stage C Capstone: The Promotion Cycle, 3 lessons at B2+.

How the learning method works

The course treats communication as work, not as a list of impressive phrases. You will identify the reader or listener, choose the right register, state the action clearly, check tone and produce evidence that another professional can use.

Bring real but non-confidential situations into the exercises. Remove names, prices and private data. Draft the message or speaking plan, compare it with the rubric, then revise for clarity, tone and action.

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Build evidence, not empty confidence

The portfolio includes emails, meeting minutes, interview answers, presentation structures, negotiation language and three connected simulations. No lesson promises employment, promotion or income.

Save work on your own device and never place confidential employer or client information in a practice example.

Study well on a phone or computer

Every activity works with touch and keyboard controls. Tables scroll on narrow screens, buttons keep a practical touch size, and quizzes retain a no-JavaScript answer path. Your completion record stays in this browser unless you export it.

What comes after this course?

After the completion assessment, maintain the skill with real workplace tasks and revisit the module that matches each new communication problem.

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