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Business English

26 Nov 2001, Michael Coghlan posted to efiwebheads@yahoogroups.com "The following two sites have lots of examples of different kinds of business letters."

• http://www.4hb.com/letters/
• http://www.quazell.com/BusinessLetters/default.htm

These suggestions were posted 22 Apr 2001 to TESLCA-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU.

• http://www.nmt.edu/~cpc/internationalethos.html has a paper by Charles Campbell, "Beyond Language: Cultural Predispositions in Business Correspondence"
• http://www.worldbank.org/ The World Bank website contains a lot of information about the world economy and the activities of the bank, most of as news items, studies, policy reports, and speeches. To get an overview of the site, you could select and look at several topics and search for some specific topics. You can also use the World Bank's search facility to see what you can find related to case studies.
• http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/ Roger Clarke was a professor at Australian National University who now specializes as a consultant in electronic commerce. He has created a web site that contains links to hundreds of other sites that are related to electronic commerce.

Linda Thalman's Business English for Teachers and Learners at http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/businessenglish.html

PYBE - Practice Your Business English, http://www.ppent.ca/pybe/

Randall Davis has a RealVideo listening quiz called "Guidelines for Safe Investing" at http://www2.gol.com/users/rsdavis/cyberlab/invest2.htm (Sound financial advice from George "Boros")

Eva Easton has business vocabulary & exercises at: http://eleaston.com/biz/bizhome.html

BESIG is the Business English Special Interest Group of IATEFL. Its website at http://www.besig.org/ has information about its yearly conference, workshops etc.

Marion Moore, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE, writes: "There are numerous sites which I have used for project work in Abu Dhabi Women's College for both our business and Business English courses:

• For information on companies try: http://www.hoovers.com/ and
• The New York stock exchange which links to company homepages: http://www.nyse.com/
• If you you want them to check share prices of companies researched try: http://www.secapl.com/cgi-bin/qs
• Also, there are interesting readings and exercises at: http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/pubgroups/elt/newibe/ibehome.html
• For issues surrounding some companies and case studies try http://www.bizednet.bris.ac.uk/
• The most comprehensive currency converter I have found is at: http://www.oanda.com/cgi-bin/ncc
• Small business information and answers to frequently asked questions about starting a business can be found at: http://ftp.sbaonline.sba.gov/

Needle in a CyberStack at http://home.revealed.net/albee/. There are currently 74 interlinked pages including 24 alphabetized Business and Career Tools Pages, the Best of Curriculum, 24 alphabetized Research Pages, Reference, Law & Justice, Cybrarians' Favorites, Intelligence & Security, Law Enforcement, Exploring, What's Cool, Fun, News Sources, etc.

"If you have business English students or are interested in the stock market, come to schMOOze U. (schmooze.hunter.cuny.edu 8888) to look at STAN. STAN is the interface for schMOOze's stock market simulation. This simulation uses time delayed quotes of real stocks, bonds and mutual funds from the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Not only can stocks be bought and sold, but company information, fundamental data, a detailed portfolio and broker recommendations are available." - Julie Falsetti

New Interchange site. Elementary level activities, mostly for business English students; at http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/elt/interchange/index.html

Dave Winet recommends, http://www.cnnfn.com, http://www.thestreet.com

From a commercial posting 15 Apr 1999 on calico-l regarding Syracuse Language's Business English. "There are three volumes, with three CD-ROMs in each volume. Features include video role-playing, culture tips, record-playback, speech recognition, a 50,000-word dictionary and more. We also offer courses (from our division called Language Connect Institute) built around this software so the student interacts with a teacher. Courses can be either from a distance or onsite. More information can be found at our website, or you can buy the software online at: http://www.languageconnect.com."