Chalk ‘n’ Talk by Brian Rhodes is a series of video lessons exploring advanced English grammar topics. In this lesson, Brian takes a look at reduced relative clauses (sometimes referred to as reduced adjective clauses). Premium Members: Study Notes | Online Practice

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In this episode of Email Tune-up we’re looking at an email from Jimmy, who is the training officer for his company. Jimmy wants to notify the various department heads of an upcoming seminar their staff will be attending. So it’s an internal email, which usually means it’s a bit more informal than something being [...]

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This is the second of a two-part Business English Pod series on idioms related to money. Many of our day-to-day business transactions involve money, so it?s common to hear money idioms used frequently in business discussions. We use them to talk about handling money and to describe situations with lots of money or no money [...]

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This is the first of a two-part Business English Pod series on idioms related to money. It’s difficult to imagine business without money. After all, making money is the main goal of many businesses. Profits often determine a company?s success. And companies must spend money, and budget carefully, to reach their business goals. [...]

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This is the second of a two-part Business English Pod series on teleconferences. Teleconferences allow people from different locations to have a meeting over the telephone. While convenient, teleconferences do have some issues to keep in mind, such as keeping track of who?s talking. Sometimes two people talk at the same time or talk too [...]

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This is the first in a two-part Business English Pod series on teleconferences ? meetings that take place over the phone. Nowadays, we have virtual teams interacting across the globe in virtual meetings without having to leave the office. Teleconferences offer a host of advantages, including minimal travel and meetings costs. However, teleconferences do have their challenges, [...]

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Today?s episode is the second of a two-part series on IT and computer vocabulary related to the “next generation” of internet technologies, commonly referred to as Web 2.0. Premium Members: Study Notes | Online Practice | MP3 Audio Only

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This is the first in a two-part Video Vocab series on IT and computer vocabulary related to the “next generation” of internet technologies, commonly referred to as Web 2.0. Premium Members: Study Notes | Online Practice | MP3 Audio Only

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Enjoy access to 12 lessons every month for just ?7.99 with our new Monthly Membership plan. You?ll be able to download the podcast and study notes, and access the online quizzes (where available) for each lesson in the new Learning Center. Your membership will renew automatically every 30 days, providing a steady supply of new lessons [...]

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Chalk ‘n’ Talk by Brian Rhodes is a series of video lessons exploring advanced English grammar topics. In this lesson, Brian takes a look at the causative and how it can be used with gerunds and the passive. Premium Members: Study Notes | Online Practice

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Members: preview this podcast in the new Learning Center. This is the second in a 2-part Business English Pod series on presenting a SWOT analysis. A SWOT analysis is a tool that helps companies understand their strengths and weaknesses, while keeping in mind the opportunities and threats they face. In this way, companies can take a [...]

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Members: preview this podcast in the new Learning Center. In this Business English Pod lesson, we start the first in a 2-part series on presenting a SWOT analysis. A SWOT analysis is a simple but powerful framework for analyzing your company’s strengths and weaknesses ? these are internal to the company ? as well as the opportunities [...]

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This is second of a two-part Business English Pod series on business idioms related to the sea, ships, and sailing. You?ll often hear sailing idioms used in business discussions. A company is compared to a ship and employees are the ship?s crew. In the last episode, two colleagues named Lakisha and Warren were talking [...]

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In this Business English Pod episode, we’re going to look at how business idioms related to ships and sailing can be used to describe company performance. The image of a ship is a powerful one in business. The ship is like a company – a huge entity that must be steered toward success, maintained [...]

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Rounding out the vote for the most popular lesson is BEP 129 – Meetings: Pitching an Idea (Part 1). This post contains the PDF study notes and links to the online English quizzes for BEP 129. Click the launch button below to start the online quizzes for BEP 129: FREE Links: Study Notes | Online Exercises [...]

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Coming in second in the vote for the most popular lesson is BEP 83 – Job Interviews: Discussing Previous Experience. This post contains the PDF study notes and links to the online English quizzes for BEP 83. Click the launch button below to start the online quizzes for BEP 83: FREE Links: Study Notes | Online [...]

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The votes are in and the most popular lesson as voted for by listeners is BEP 126 – Problem Solving Meetings. This post contains the study notes PDF and links to the online English quizzes for BEP 126. Click the launch button below to start the online quizzes for BEP 126: FREE Links: Study Notes | [...]

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In today’s Business English Pod episode, we’re going to look at language for showing a visitor around your office or factory. There are many reasons that someone might visit a factory and take a tour. They might be a prospective client who wants to see where the products are made, or perhaps someone from head office [...]

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In this Business English Pod episode we’re going to look at making a verbal progress report during a meeting. All managers need written progress reports from their staff, but it is often necessary to make a verbal progress report during a meeting. A verbal report can be thought of as a combination of a presentation and [...]

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Chalk ‘n’ Talk by Brian Rhodes is a series of video lessons exploring advanced English grammar topics. In this lesson, Brian takes a look at the causative and how it can be used in the passive voice. The causative has the meaning of ’someone causes someone to do something’. The three verbs usually used for the [...]

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In this Business English Pod lesson on business travel, we’ll be looking at how to deal with security checks. In recent years getting through the security check at the airport has become a chore. In some cities, the whole process can take fifteen to twenty minutes or more. This includes standing in line, sending your bags [...]

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For many people, visiting a café or coffee shop is a normal part of business travel, if not everyday life. Not only are coffee shops a good place to get a cup of espresso, they are also a great location to have a quick meeting with a customer, take a short break, and – most [...]

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In this Business English Podcast, we’re going to look at delivering an elevator pitch. A sales pitch is a presentation designed to introduce a product or service in order to convince people to buy it. An elevator pitch is a very short presentation designed to do the same thing in 60-seconds or less and often the [...]

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For the final lesson in our two-part Video Vocab series on financial English vocabulary related to bankruptcy, we’re going to look at General Motor’s impending Chapter 11 filing. A bankruptcy filing by GM would rank as the third-largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. Premium Members: Study Notes | Online Practice | MP3 Audio Only [...]

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Today, we’re beginning a two-part Video Vocab series on Business English vocabulary related to bankruptcy. This lesson will focus on financial English vocabulary related to the two most common types of bankruptcy in U.S. law: Chapter 11 & Chapter 7. Premium Members: Study Notes | Online Practice | MP3 Audio Only

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In this Business English Pod episode we’ll be looking at how to handle a telephone interview for a new job. If you?re joining us here, you may want to check out BEP 82 and BEP 83 first to see how to talk about your experience in a face-to-face interview. Unit 301 from our Interviews e-book [...]

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This is the final episode in our three-part Business English Podcast series on pitching an idea to your colleagues. In the last episode, we saw how a manager presented an idea to her colleagues and persuaded them to take it seriously. She then defended and supported her argument in front of her peers, who were not [...]

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In the last Business English Podcast lesson, we saw how a manager pitched an idea during a meeting. She explained how the company website could be revamped so that customers could order off-the-shelf products directly, instead of having to contacting a sales representative. In today’s lesson, we’ll introduce language for dealing with unexpected objections, signposting your [...]

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This is the first in a three-part Business English Podcast series on pitching, or presenting, your ideas persuasively and convincingly. Business people often come up with ideas about how to do things better, or how something can be changed to provide greater cost benefits to the company. Being able to present an idea to your [...]

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The news today is full of stories about the financial crisis and recession. The complex problems behind this crisis have given rise to a whole new vocabulary. So, today we?re going to explore the language you?ve been hearing every day in the news. Discussion: How have you been effected by the economic crisis? What about your [...]

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Chalk ‘n’ Talk is a new series of video lessons exploring advanced English grammar topics. In this lesson, Brian looks at how sense verbs (hear, feel, listen, see, watch, smell, taste, sense) can be used with -ing forms. Premium Members: Study Notes | Online Practice

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We?ve looked before at how to set up an appointment on the phone with someone you already know (BEP 119), but what about if you haven?t met the person or established a relationship with them yet? In today?s Business English Podcast, we?ll be looking at how to make contact with a prospective client and, on [...]

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This is a preview of our revised e-Book for business meetings: Meeting Essentials for Business English. Business English Pod e-Books enable you to learn on the go with MP3 audio lessons and the detailed PDF study guides, including a full transcript of each lesson. The revised editions include over 100 online Flash quizzes, exercises and flashcards [...]

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This is a preview of our revised e-Book for job interviews: Successful Job Interviews in English. Business English Pod e-Books enable you to learn on the go with MP3 audio lessons and the detailed PDF study guides, including a full transcript of each lesson. The revised editions include over 100 online Flash quizzes, exercises and flashcards [...]

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Chalk ‘n’ Talk is a new series of video lessons exploring advanced English grammar topics. In this lesson, Brian reviews the three basic conditionals: first (probable) conditional, second (improbable) conditional and third (past improbable) conditional. In the second part of the video, Brian looks at some common errors native speakers make with the third conditional. Premium [...]

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This second part of a two-part Business English Podcast series on running and participating in a problem-solving meeting. In the first part of this meeting (see BEP 126), the team spent time answering the question: ?What is the problem?? In today?s episode, we?re going to focus on how to brainstorm solutions to a problem through [...]

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One of the most common reasons for holding a meeting is to solve a problem. A meeting can be a great place to do this, because it is possible for a variety of people with different experiences and perspectives to work together to identify the problem and come up with possible solutions. But, while we might [...]

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Chalk ‘n’ Talk is a series of video lessons by Brian Rhodes exploring advanced English grammar topics. In this video, Brian reviews the different ING forms and gerunds. After looking at the various types of ING words in English, Brian goes on to explain the use of gerunds. Premium Members: Study Notes | Online Practice

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In this episode of Email Tune-up we’re looking at an email from Kenny, who works for a bathroom fixtures, or equipment, manufacture. He is writing to his colleague, John, to inform him about the changes he has made to the design of a shower door. Each video lesson features a review of a real-life email [...]

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In this episode of Video Vocab, we continue our look at Business English vocabulary related to the key components of GAAP or Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. GAAP is a set of rules followed by accountants in preparing companies? financial statements. Premium Members: Study Notes | Online Practice

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In this episode of Video Vocab we take a look at financial and accounting vocabulary related to the key components of GAAP or Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. GAAP is a set of rules followed by accountants in preparing companies? financial statements. First we’ll hear a short article introducing the vocabulary. Then we’ll go over each [...]

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This is a preview of our new Business English e-book on negotiation skills: Successful Negotiations in English for ESL Learners. Business English Pod e-Books enable you to learn on the go with MP3 audio lessons, review key language and techniques with the detailed PDF study guide, including a full transcript of each lesson; and practice useful [...]

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