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Business English B2 · A Year at Wrenfield: interactive lessons for adults at work

Level B2, upper intermediate 5 units, 20 lessons One-to-one or groups

This B2 course of ready-made business English lessons for adults follows a year at Wrenfield Coffee Roasters, a fictional company in Portland, Oregon, in American English.

Grammar
Present and perfect tenses, question tags, indirect questions, future forms, gerunds and infinitives, conditionals, the passive, relative clauses, reported speech, linking words, past modals and the causative.
Topics
Networking at a trade fair, emails, meetings, monthly figures, negotiating, complaints, a late shipment, a product launch, hiring, prices, expenses, feedback and working across cultures.
Every lesson
Word cards with pictures, a business document to read, a listening, grammar practice with a scheme, a chat and a speaking game, then homework with a text to write and a recording.
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  1. Unit 1 First contacts

    networking, a company story, a business lunch and emails: present tenses, the present perfect, question tags, indirect questions

    1. Lesson 1Making ContactsPresent simple and present continuous at work
    2. Lesson 2Our Story: From Cart to RoasteryPresent perfect and past simple for company history
    3. Lesson 3The Business LunchQuestion tags and short answers
    4. Lesson 4Emails That Get AnswersIndirect questions and polite requests

  2. Unit 2 Meetings and figures

    scheduling, sales figures, running a meeting and negotiating: future forms, trends, gerunds and infinitives, conditionals

    1. Lesson 5Setting Up MeetingsFuture forms for meetings and schedules
    2. Lesson 6The Monthly FiguresDescribing trends
    3. Lesson 7Running a MeetingGerunds and infinitives in meetings
    4. Lesson 8Negotiating a DealFirst and second conditionals in a negotiation

  3. Unit 3 Problems and growth

    a complaint, a late shipment, a launch and hiring: the present perfect continuous, the passive, comparatives, relative clauses

    1. Lesson 9Handling a ComplaintPresent perfect simple vs continuous
    2. Lesson 10The Late ShipmentThe passive in all tenses
    3. Lesson 11Launching a ProductComparatives and superlatives with modifiers
    4. Lesson 12Hiring the Right PersonDefining and non-defining relative clauses

  4. Unit 4 Reports, prices and feedback

    reporting back, explaining prices, expenses and feedback: reported speech, linking words, modals of obligation, past modals

    1. Lesson 13Reporting BackSay vs tell in reported speech
    2. Lesson 14Explaining PricesLinking words of contrast, cause and result
    3. Lesson 15Travel and Expenses: Can I Claim That?Modals of obligation, prohibition and permission
    4. Lesson 16Giving FeedbackShould have, could have and didn't need to

  5. Unit 5 Looking back and ahead

    what went wrong, other cultures, an agency and next year: the third and mixed conditionals, past deduction, the causative, the future perfect

    1. Lesson 17What Went WrongThird and mixed conditionals
    2. Lesson 18Working Across CulturesModals of deduction, present and past
    3. Lesson 19Working with an AgencyCausative have and get
    4. Lesson 20The Road AheadFuture continuous and future perfect

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Questions about this course

What is business English?
The English people use with colleagues, clients and suppliers. It covers networking, emails, meetings, calls, figures, negotiations and complaints, in a register that is polite but clear. Business English B2 on edio.ai teaches it through one company's year, from a first handshake at a trade fair to the plans for the year ahead.
What topics should a business English course cover?
The tasks of an ordinary working year. A B2 course should cover meeting people and small talk, emails and calls, setting up and running meetings, presenting figures, negotiating, handling complaints and delays, hiring, prices and expenses, and feedback. Business English B2 has a lesson for each, set at one coffee company in Portland, Oregon.
What business English vocabulary do the lessons teach?
Phrasal verbs and fixed phrases of everyday work. Each lesson has 10 word cards with pictures and English definitions, such as pencil in, push back and call off for meetings, meet someone halfway and strike a deal for negotiating, or keep someone in the loop when a shipment is late. The phrases come back in the lesson's reading, listening and chat.
How do you teach business English to adults?
Start from a real task and the language it needs. Give learners a document they would meet at work, such as an email or a sales report, let them hear the same situation in a call, then practice one grammar point and use it in a role-play. Business English B2 follows this order in every lesson, and its homework adds a text to write and a recording.
What grammar does Business English B2 teach?
One grammar point per lesson, met in a work situation. Present tenses come with introductions, the present perfect with a company's story, indirect questions with polite emails, future forms with scheduling, conditionals with negotiating, the passive with a late shipment, reported speech with reporting back, and the third conditional with a promotion that went wrong.
Is the course in American or British English?
American English, in spelling, words and money. Wrenfield Coffee Roasters is a fictional company in Portland, Oregon, with its figures in dollars, though its partners include a hotel group in Rotterdam and a distributor in Hamburg. The listenings are AI-voiced.
Can I teach business English one-to-one or to company groups?
Yes, live or as homework. In a live lesson, every learner follows the lesson in their own account, in sync with the teacher, and the chats and speaking games work for a pair or an in-company group. Homework drills check themselves; the writing task and the recording go to the teacher to review.
Can I try the business English lessons before signing up?
Yes, on the lesson pages and in a free trial. Each lesson page plays exercises from the lesson that you can try without an account. A free trial of edio.ai, with no credit card needed, opens all 20 lessons in the lesson library.

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