Midwestern Career College English at Work: Common Phrases and Situations in Professional Settings
Midwestern Career College English at Work: Common Phrases and Situations in Professional Settings gathers the phrases used in emails, meetings, calls and introductions, with a note on how politeness works in business English. Midwestern Career College is a career college in Chicago, and it publishes the article beside its professional English program for ESL learners.
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How It Helps Your Business English
The article opens with a note on how softer wording carries respect in business English, then lists phrases for four situations: emails, meetings, phone and video calls, and introducing yourself. Four practice tips close it, among them rewriting emails you have received and recording yourself saying meeting phrases.
Pick the situation you are facing, whether an email, a meeting, a video call or an introduction to a new team, and take the three or four phrases under it that fit what you want to say. Use the opening note on politeness to judge how direct to be. Then follow the practice tips to make the phrases your own before you need them.
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