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Collins English for Business Speaking
Collins English for Business Speaking is the speaking volume of Collins’ English for Business range: a self-study course in the spoken English of working life — meetings, presentations, negotiations, telephone calls, and the small talk that oils them all.
Business speaking is a performance skill with a script nobody hands you: this book hands it over. Its units follow the working week’s encounters, modelling the phrases natives use to open, steer, soften, disagree, summarise, and close — with listening practice and speaking tasks that move the language from the page to the mouth.
It is written for professionals who work in English as a second language, business students, and self-teachers whose written English outruns their spoken — the book that closes that particular gap.
There is a familiar professional misery: understanding every word of a meeting and contributing nothing to it. This course is built against that misery. Organised by business situation rather than grammar topic, it teaches the functional language of the workplace as usable chunks — the phrases for interrupting politely, buying thinking time, proposing, hedging, conceding, and landing a point — each modelled in dialogues, practised in controlled tasks, and released into freer speaking. The Collins for Business method respects the user’s calendar: short units, self-study friendly, with answer keys and transcripts making a teacher optional. Its register teaching is the quiet treasure: the difference between ‘give me the figures’ and the sentence that gets them, between directness that reads as confidence and directness that reads as war. For internationally working readers, that difference is a career skill, and it is precisely the one this book drills.
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About This Book
Collins English for Business is a range built for the workplace’s real syllabus, and Speaking is its most-needed volume: the course that treats the meeting, the call, and the presentation as learnable performances — with lines, cues, and rehearsal provided.
What Learners Will Practise
Meetings and Discussions
The core arena: opening and chairing, giving and asking opinions, agreeing and disagreeing at the right temperature, interrupting without offence, summarising and action-pointing — the full choreography of the business meeting, in phrases that can be borrowed whole.
Presentations and Calls
The two solo performances: structuring a talk, signposting its turns, handling its questions — and the telephone and video call, where English arrives without faces and every phrase must carry its own clarity.
Negotiating and Socialising
The persuasion arts — proposing, bargaining, conceding gracefully — and the business social layer around them: introductions, small talk, hospitality, the corridor conversations in which working relationships are actually built.
Key Features
Situation-first organisation is the feature: the learner buys the language by the encounter they face on Monday. The phrase-level teaching is the second — whole, reusable, register-judged chunks — and the self-study completeness the third: models, practice, keys and transcripts in one volume.
Who This Book Is For
It is for professionals working in international English, business and management students, candidates for workplace English qualifications, trainers running in-company courses, and any advanced learner whose career now speaks English before they do.
How to Use This Book
Work by need: take the unit whose situation is nearest on your calendar, learn its phrases to the point of boredom — fluency is recall under pressure — and rehearse aloud, alone, before the real performance. Record yourself in the speaking tasks; the ear forgives what the recorder does not, and the second take is where the improvement lives. Keep a phrase notebook by situation; review it in the taxi to the meeting.
Related Books
For examination grammar, Collins Grammar for IELTS. For general advanced study, English Unlimited C1 Advanced.
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