Pronunciation points you can cover with Business classes
By Alex Case
his is a brainstormed list of things that could be included on a syllabus for a Business English and/ or ESP speaking and/ or pronunciation course, including a few teaching ideas on how to tackle those points. For more information and resources on pronunciation practice for Business students, see the Market Leader Practice files (workbooks- the sections near the back) and my article from English Teaching Professional Magazine on the Articles page of TEFLtastic.
Language Points to Include and Possible Words/ Expressions for a Business English Speaking and Pronunciation course
Key Basics
alphabet and acronyms- inc. e-mail address
names of countries and cities
weights and measures???
numbers?
Making distinctions
Stressed and unstressed aux verbs= use of short forms
Short and long vowel sounds
ow and O
or and O
o and O
i and ee
for and four
to and two
we go and we’ll go
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Alex Case has been a teacher, teacher trainer, Director of Studies, ELT writer and editor in Turkey, Thailand, Spain, Greece, Italy, Japan, UK and now Korea, and writes TEFLtastic blog (www.tefl.net/alexcase)
*ELTWeekly would like to thankAlex Case for contributing this article.