COURSE FINISHER
Well done, you have completed your training at Talk Business Languages.
This is a personalised study plan, plus recommendations and links, to help you maintain your English.
The key is to incorporate English into your life doing things you really enjoy. Here’s how:
1. Find resources you’re interested in, so you really want to listen/watch for pleasure, not obligation!
2. Download podcasts onto your phone, so you can listen in your car, out walking, in the shower, wherever...
3. Watch series with your partner, and family films and cartoons with your children.
4. Change the language of your TV to English. And on business trips, change the TV to English in the hotel.
1. Send your work colleagues WhatsApp messages and emails in English.
2. Write messages and emails to suppliers in English.
3. Write your weekly report in English.
4. Make a WhatsApp English group with any friends who speak English.
1. Have a weekly English coffee or lunch break with colleagues at work.
2. On business trips abroad, speak English on the plane, car rental, hotel etc – if the workers speak in Spanish to you, tell them you want to practice your English.
3. If your partner and friends speak English, have an English hour once a week.
4. Read aloud and record yourself on your phone.
5. Speak to yourself aloud when driving, in the shower, etc.
1. Read articles about your work in English
2. Read the news in English
3. Read a couple of pages of a book every day
4. Read about your hobbies and interests in English
English Grammar in Use, review units studied, do units not completed on course (answers at the back😉), plus the revision activities at the back of the book.
Cambridge English Write & Improve
British Council, writing skills
Indeed, examples of different business correspondence (search: emails)
Letter Whiz, templates for different emails, includes large section of business topics
Search for topics you’re interested in:
Subscribe to Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO, etc - watch series and films in English.
Noticias de última hora, programas y series de televisión - RTVE.es Noticias de última hora, programas y series de televisión - RTVE.es