Helen Strong: Teacher training

Business Spotlight teaching resources

Are you a business English trainer looking for ideas and inspiration, materials and methodologies, tips and techniques to use in your training?

The Business Spotlight blend enables you to design and deliver business English courses using a range of text, audio and online sources to help you develop your students' business and communication skills. As well as activities to build vocabulary and practise grammar, there is a wealth of invaluable advice from industry experts on improving performance in key business areas, such as meetings and negotiations, office communications, presentations and intercultural awareness.

Subscription to the magazine includes teachers' notes (Business Spotlight in the classroom) and free access to the Teachers' Zone on the Business Spotlight website. As author of Business Spotlight in the classroom, I provide you with tips and ideas as to how you can make your lessons more interesting and relevant for your business English students.

Business Spotlight workshops

The accompanying workshops give you hands-on experience of how to exploit the Business Spotlight resources, for example by incorporating technology and online activities into your teaching.

To book a workshop for your organisation simply send an email to Business Spotlight. All workshop participants will receive free copies of the latest issue of the Business Spotlight magazine, the vocabulary guide Skill Up!, and the language trainer plus.

Workshop dates:

May 7, 2010 6th Austrian UAS Language Instructors’ Conference, Vienna: "Blended Learning"

May 3, 2010 Sprachen und Beruf, Düsseldorf: "Activities for building business vocabulary"

April 16, 2010 VHS Munich: "Blended Learning"

February 20, 2010 Cambridge Corporate Day, Frankfurt: "Blended Learning - 10 keys to success"