Elementary Business Power

Introduction

Elementary Business Power is an online course consisting of 50 units of English and providing approximately 60 hours of study for students.

Course Aims

To give students at Elementary CEFR A1-A2 level practice in general and business-oriented language required for general business contexts at this level. The course blends grammatical structures necessary for this level with vocabulary, reading, listening, writing, and speaking.

Grammar

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

• use present simple and present continuous verb forms
• form sentences using the simple past with regular and irregular verbs
• identify things using there is/there are and have got
• create yes/no and information questions
• give information on time and place using prepositions
• use the modal verb can
• use adverbs of frequency

Vocabulary

By the end of the course, students will have learned approximately 400 lexical items including nouns, verbs, adjectives, phrasal verbs, idiomatic language, and lexical sets.

Skills

By the end of the course, students will have had exposure to and practice in reading and hearing formal and informal English from a variety of business contexts, including talking about jobs, meetings, entertaining, and making small talk.

Unit Summary

Follow-Up

Students completing the Elementary Business Power course should feel confident in tackling any intermediate course, including our Pre-Intermediate Business Power course.