British Council LearnEnglish Business Magazine
British Council LearnEnglish Business Magazine collects magazine-style articles on workplace topics for intermediate and upper intermediate learners, published by the British Council. Each article sits at CEFR level B1 or B2, takes up a theme such as delegating, negotiating, managing up, flexible working or writing a CV, and comes with interactive exercises on the language it uses.
100% Free (unlimited): Every article and its exercises open straight from the page, with no account and no payment. An account is offered so that you can save favourites and join the comments, and the articles stay open whether or not you create one. The online courses the British Council sells elsewhere on the site are separate material.
How It Helps Your Business English
The page lists about twenty business magazine articles, each marked B1 or B2. The themes include agile working, conflict management, delegating, effective collaboration, marketing trends, flexible working, meetings, managing up, mindfulness at work, negotiating, resilience, remote teams and writing a CV. Every article carries interactive exercises on its language.
Choose an article on the situation you are facing at work and read it once for the argument before you go back for the language. The exercises after each text ask you to use the vocabulary and the phrasing you have just met, which fixes them better than rereading does. Because the articles are marked B1 or B2, you can stay at one level across several topics or move up once a text reads easily.
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