Speaking in Tongues radio series

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Business English

Bob Flory

What kind of "Business English" will you need when you get into a conference room with a lot of other non-native speakers of English? If your meeting is with native speakers, how are you going to get on?

Bob Flory takes a look...

• Bob Flory is Director of Company Training at IH Barcelona

Learn more

If you are going to be teaching Business English, we can highly recommend both Ellis and Johnson's Teaching Business English (OUP, 1994) and Evan Frendo's How to Teach Business English (Longman, 2005).

On our Teacher Training site we have links for teaching business English which may also interest you.

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"Speaking in Tongues" is a series of short English-language radio programmes, produced and recorded by IH Barcelona. The 25-programme series was broadcast on Saturday mornings by Radio Free Barcelona on 107.7 FM.

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About the series

The series discusses a range of different topics relating to language, language learning and language teaching.

The programme is intended for a general public, but will of course be of special interest to language teachers and students.