B2/B2+ Upper Intermediate

Business skills

• Employee relocation and international assignments
• Remote work and working away from home
• Cross-cultural adaptation in global teams
• Informal networking and workplace small talk
• Travel policies and business mobility

Grammar

• Review of the tense system in workplace communication
• Present and past tenses for professional background
• Present Perfect for career experience
• Future forms for travel and work arrangements
• Formal vs informal language in workplace messages

Business skills

• International business travel and destination planning
• Corporate sustainability and plastic reduction
• Responsible tourism and environmental impact
• Business goals and professional bucket lists
• Formal email communication with international partners

Grammar

• Present Perfect Simple for completed achievements
• Present Perfect Continuous for ongoing projects
• Present Perfect Simple vs Continuous
• Time expressions with Present Perfect
• Make vs do in professional collocations

Business skills

• Building trust with new clients and colleagues
• Professional kindness and relationship management
• Networking with unfamiliar contacts
• Business storytelling and company experiences
• Showing interest and surprise in professional conversations

Grammar

• Past Simple for key business events
• Past Continuous for background actions
• Past Perfect Simple for earlier events
• Past Perfect Continuous for ongoing past situations
• Combining narrative tenses in business stories

Business skills

• Truth and transparency in business
• Corporate reputation and misinformation
• Ethics in advertising and communication
• Handling confidential or sensitive information
• Politeness in difficult workplace conversations

Grammar

• Question formation in professional contexts
• Negative forms and negative statements
• Indirect questions for polite enquiries
• Question words and auxiliary verbs
• Linking ideas in arguments and explanations

Business skills

• Future workplace trends and technology
• Career planning and professional goals
• Recruitment and job applications
• Telephone communication at work
• Managing change and future uncertainty

Grammar

• Will for predictions and spontaneous decisions
• Be going to for intentions and plans
• Present Continuous for future arrangements
• Present Simple for schedules and timetables
• Future forms for forecasts, offers and decisions

Business skills

• Business growth and scaling companies
• Customer satisfaction and customer strategy
• Successful companies and entrepreneurship
• Advertising and promotional campaigns
• Business reports, figures and performance

Grammar

• Countable and uncountable nouns in business contexts
• Quantifiers: much, many, few and little
• Expressions of quantity for data and resources
• Numbers and quantities in business communication
• Agreement with quantity expressions

Business skills

• Professional relationships and team dynamics
• Power, influence and leadership
• Workplace expectations and obligations
• Negotiating opinions and arguing a case
• Managing interpersonal communication

Grammar

• Modal verbs for possibility and probability
• Modals for obligation and necessity
• Modals for permission and ability
• Should and related verbs for advice
• Degrees of certainty with modal verbs

Business skills

• Risk-taking in business and entrepreneurship
• Working in extreme or challenging conditions
• Business travel and describing locations
• Performance under pressure
• Managing ambitious goals and limits

Grammar

• Defining relative clauses
• Non-defining relative clauses
• Relative pronouns in professional descriptions
• Present participles as reduced relative clauses
• Past participles as reduced relative clauses

Business skills

• How workplaces have changed over time
• Technology and changing communication habits
• Traditional vs modern management practices
• Career memories and influential mentors
• Organizational habits and workplace routines

Grammar

• Used to for past workplace habits
• Would for repeated past actions
• Present Simple for current habits
• Adverbs and expressions of frequency
• Contrasting past and present routines

Business skills

• Reviewing past business decisions
• Learning from mistakes and missed opportunities
• Assessing evidence and past performance
• Handling disagreement and strong opinions
• Using emphasis in persuasive communication

Grammar

• Must have for strong past deductions
• Might / May / Could have for past possibility
• Can’t / Couldn’t have for past impossibility
• Should have for criticism and regret
• Modal verbs in the past for probability and obligation

Business skills

• Scenario planning and strategic alternatives
• Innovation and imaginative problem-solving
• Business risks and hypothetical outcomes
• Career wishes and professional regrets
• Turning ideas into future opportunities

Grammar

• Second Conditional for hypothetical situations
• Third Conditional for past hypotheticals
• Mixed conditional ideas
• Wish and if only for wishes and regrets
• Suppose / What if for exploring possibilities

Business skills

• Time management and workplace priorities
• Work-life balance and career stages
• Productivity and use of time
• Making a clear point in meetings and presentations
• Improving cohesion in professional writing

Grammar

• Definite and indefinite articles
• Zero article in general statements
• Determiners: this, that, each, every and others
• Articles with jobs, organizations and places
• Using determiners for cohesion and reference