Intensive Business English Courses
(Advanced level)
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1) Connection at Work: Speak to Build Rapport - Summer Intensive, start in July 2025
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2) Effective Communication at Work - Full course, start in September 2025
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Victoria Road's online Business English courses are designed for busy professionals like you to help you communicate effectively in an international business environment.
All the courses are based on the communicative method of Cambridge CELTA, allowing you to communicate in a natural, professional, and confident way in a wide range of challenging contexts at work.
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The courses are based on some of the leading Oxford & Cambridge coursebooks for international Business English students.
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Find out more about the upcoming courses below.
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Upcoming courses:
Speak to Build Rapport
build strong and meaningful relationships with your colleagues
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This intensive 10-hour course aims to equip you with the Advanced communication strategies to build meaningful connections at work. It is based on Functional Language, allowing you to 'function' effectively to build strong relationships with your colleagues: establish rapport, network, show understanding, respond to feedback, get your point across or raise a difficult point.
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With a major focus on Speaking, Listening and Pronunciation, the course teaches you to sound confident, professional and fluent to create better work relationships.
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Class 1 - Establishing Rapport & Networking
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Communicative strategy: Greeting colleagues, recalling past events in common, paying a compliment, asking a follow-up question, showing knowledge about a person you have met.
OUTCOME: You will learn how to greet and network effectively in international events or conferences by asking the right questions, using natural intonation and showing genuine interest in another person to make a strong first impression.
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Class 2 - Expressing personal views & Showing understanding
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Communicative strategy: Expressing personal views, encouraging someone to express personal views, showing why you understand the problem, explaining why you understand, offering a practical solution.
OUTCOME: You will learn how to encourage your colleague to express their view, how to share your perspective in a confident way, show empathy and respond to your colleagues' problems and difficulties.
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Class 3 - Getting your point across & Dealing with misunderstandings
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Communicative strategy: Reformulating, clarifying what is meant, illustrating or offering to illustrate a point, summarizing, saying you haven't understood, responding to misunderstanding.
OUTCOME: You will learn how to make yourself understood if you were not clear, how to say clearly and politely that you haven't understood something and how to deal with a misunderstanding in a cooperative and effective way.
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Class 4 - Responding to feedback & Using Vague Language
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Communicative strategy: Responding to positive feedback, taking on board negative feedback, challenging negative feedback, softening your messaging, sounding less direct.
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OUTCOME: You will learn to deal with feedback, both positive and negative, in a polite and professional way. You will learn how to soften your message, sound truly professional and keep your calm even when you feel like you are getting defensive.
Class 5 - Review & Course Feedback
You will review the studied material in several speaking role-plays helping you revise the communication strategies you have learnt. You will get detailed individual feedback on your progress and set up a personalised Action Plan with the tutor helping you to sustain your progress after the course.​​​​​​​
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COURSE OUTCOME
By the end of the course, you will have started to communicate much more effectively in professional settings. With the sound knowledge of communication strategies, it would be easier for you to build more genuine and trustful relationships with the people you work with. With extensive work on your voice pitch and intonation, you will learn to sound more natural, expressive and fluent to make colleagues want to listen to you and what you have to say.
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Study materials
You will learn with the material from the best modern Business English coursebooks from BBC, Pearson, Cambridge and Oxford University Press. Here are some of the examples of the coursebooks used in class.
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Students enrolled in the course have FREE access to all the study materials.
Fees
Speak to Build Rapport (10-hour course)
330€ (small group)
450€ (one-to-one)
​Payment method: one-time payment OR payment in 3 installments: 110€ for a small group course and 140€ for a one-to-one course.​​
Effective Communication at Work (Full 20-hour course)
640€ (small group)
730€ (one-to-one)
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Payment method: one-time payment OR payment in 3 installments: 213€ for a small group course and 243€ for a one-to-one course.