Understanding Financial Data & Figures in English (ESL Audio)
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Business English Pod English for Presentations gathers the publisher's presentation lessons on a single page, listed by release date with the newest first. Business English Pod produces audio lessons for working professionals, and this collection covers introductions, signposting, summarizing, questions and answers, voice and delivery, charts and trends, online presentations, investor pitches and sales presentations.
Limits of the Free Tier Plan: Every lesson on this page streams and downloads as audio at no cost, and each lesson page carries the language focus and the vocabulary notes. A Premium membership opens the PDF transcript of each lesson, the online quizzes, the vocabulary definitions and the Apple and Android apps, across the whole library of more than six hundred lessons.
Business English Pod Financial English Vocabulary Playlist brings together seventeen video lessons on the language of finance and accounting. Business English Pod, a publisher of business English audio and video lessons, covers company finance, funding for start-ups, accounting terms and GAAP, bankruptcy, bonds, macroeconomics, stocks and shares, corporate taxes and the vocabulary of an economic crisis.
100% Free (unlimited): The seventeen videos play in full on YouTube at no cost, with no account and no payment, and the captions can be switched on for any of them. The playlist runs in order from the first lesson, and each video can also be opened on its own when you want a single subject such as bonds or corporate taxes.
Down to Business English Podcast discusses current business subjects in natural English for people who use the language at work. Down to Business English, hosted by the business English instructors Skip Montreux, Dez Morgan and Samantha Vega, takes one subject an episode, such as consumer loyalty programs, and works through the vocabulary and the figures that come with it.
Limits of the Free with Signup Plan: Every episode is listed in full on this page and plays at no cost once you are signed in to a free Spotify account, with no card and no payment asked for. A short preview plays before you sign in. Each episode carries a written description of the subject, and the back catalogue stays available alongside the new episodes.
English Explained Vids Big Numbers in English teaches how to read large figures aloud and then sets practice items on them. English Explained Vids, a YouTube channel for adult learners of American English, works through place value, the two ways of saying a large number and the situations each one suits, with the figures on screen as they are spoken.
100% Free (unlimited): The video plays in full on YouTube with no account and no payment, and the captions can be switched on. The practice section is inside the video itself, so nothing has to be downloaded or bought, and the channel's other lessons for adult beginners, such as the one on United States addresses, open in the same way.
English in Pieces Presenting Numbers, Charts and Graphs is the second episode of a ten-part presentation skills series, recorded as a conversation between two speakers. English in Pieces, a YouTube channel of English podcast episodes, spends the episode on how to present figures, charts and graphs clearly and on the language that introduces each kind of visual.
100% Free (unlimited): The episode plays in full on YouTube with no account and no payment, and the captions can be switched on. The nine other episodes of the presentation skills series are open in the same way, so the series can be followed from the first episode to the last at no cost.
English Number Listening Practice plays spoken numbers in the browser and asks the learner to type the digits heard. English Number, a free listening site, generates a new figure each round, from single digits up to the millions, and the range can be set before the test begins. A customizable test, five written guides and a short set of questions and answers sit alongside the drill.
100% Free (unlimited): Every exercise opens straight in the browser, with no account, no download and no payment, and the test can be repeated as often as you wish. The range is yours to choose before you start, from single digits up to the millions, and the written guides and the questions and answers on the site are open in the same way.
English Podcast for Listening Skills Accounting and Finance Episode is a spoken conversation about how companies handle money, rules and risk. English Podcast for Listening Skills, a YouTube channel of podcast episodes in American English, lets two speakers work through accounting and finance at conversational speed, with the subject set out at the start of the episode.
100% Free (unlimited): The episode plays in full on YouTube with no account and no payment, and the captions can be switched on. The other episodes of the series are open in the same way, so the whole set can be listened to one after another at no cost and with nothing to download.
English With Mr. Fluent Explain Data in English Easily presents eight words used to describe figures and shows each of them in a spoken example. English With Mr. Fluent, a YouTube channel of short English lessons, covers increase, decrease, remain stable, percentage, comparison and trend among them, and keeps the lesson to a few minutes delivered straight to camera.
100% Free (unlimited): The video plays in full on YouTube with no account and no payment, and the captions can be switched on. Nothing has to be downloaded or bought to follow it, and the channel's other short lessons open in the same way, so the words can be practised further at no cost.
Lessonpills Financial Reporting: Adding Emphasis with Cleft Sentences is a C1 lesson on presenting the figures in a financial report and drawing attention to what matters in them. Lessonpills, a library of ready-made English lessons built on real articles and videos, sets out the vocabulary, the grammar point, phrases for handling questions and a closing discussion.
Limits of the Free Tier Plan: The lesson page, with its summary and its vocabulary, grammar and discussion sections, opens to anyone with no account. Around forty lessons in the library run in full as interactive exercises at no cost, and the remaining lessons, this one among them, open with Premium at nine dollars and ninety-nine cents a month or ninety-nine dollars a year.
Zapp! English Numbers and Statistics Audio Lessons groups four podcast episodes about numbers, statistics and probability. Zapp! English, recorded in Oxford and Barcelona by a team of British and North American teachers, covers fractions, decimals, percentages, feet and inches, a quiz on GDP and the world's fastest animal, fifteen words for chance and probability, and number idioms.
Limits of the Free Tier Plan: The four episodes stream and download as audio files with no account and no payment, and each episode page carries its glossary and notes. The workbooks, which hold the listening tasks, their answers, the extra questions and the full transcripts, come with the all-in-one pack at thirty-nine euros, one payment that covers every episode and every workbook.