Five-Minute Activities for Business English

Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers

by Paul Emmerson, Nick Hamilton

This comprehensive resource book contains an easy-to-use set of short activities essential for anyone teaching Business English. Reflecting real-life business activities such as emails, noisy telephone conversations, making excuses, negotiating, handling customer complaints and cultural awareness, Five-Minute Activities for Business English helps teachers mirror the pacey feel of the work environment. This book is also of interest to teachers of general English who are looking for stimulating skills-based activities in meaningful contexts and complements both tailored and coursebook-based materials. The four main areas covered are 'Business topics', 'Business communication skills', 'Language work' and 'Exploiting coursebooks'. These areas feature activities on various topics such as money, finance, meetings, negotiations, telephoning, management, marketing, etc.

126 pages, Paperback

First published February 16, 2005

About the author

Paul Emmerson works as a writer, teacher and teacher trainer. He is author of the Macmillan titles Email English, Business Builder, Business Grammar Builder (2 levels), Business Vocabulary Builder (2 levels) and Business English Handbook,and of the CUP titles Business English Frameworks and Five Minute Activities for Business English.

In the past he has also worked extensively as a teacher trainer, travelling all over Europe. He still keeps in touch with the classroom, teaching at ELC, Brighton when he is not writing. However, he has scaled back this activity since the birth of his little daughter as he doesn’t want to miss out on the wonderful time being with her.

He has two Masters degrees, including an MA in Applied Linguistics, and is a regular presenter at international conferences. In November 2010 he launched his own website www.paulemmerson.com which gives dozens of creative and practical ideas to use in class.

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