Practise your business skills in English

Are you working this summer? You might need to practise some business skills in English… If you do, British Council Learn English is a very interesting free on-line source that includes a specific section on business. 

Take a look at it! 

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Resources to Help You Keep Up with English Learning

Hello everyone! There are a number of free online resources to help you keep up with your English learning outside of the classroom. Here is a list of our favorite resources to help you practice your English reading, writing, listening, grammar and speaking skills, all from the comfort of your own home.

Learning Language with Netflix - This Google Chrome Extension helps you learn English while watching your favorite TV shows. On the application:

●     Subtitles are shown in two languages, allowing you to compare the original audio and text with a translation Spanish.

●     The extension allows you to listen to subtitles one at a time, and to change the playback speed.

●     There's a pop-up dictionary, and the extension suggests the most important words for you to learn.

Write & Improve - Write & Improve is a free tool for learners of English that marks writing in seconds.

●     Submit your work and Write & Improve will score it on the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference) scale, giving it a level from A1 (lowest) to C2 (highest).

●     Write & Improve also shows you the parts of your text that may need improvement. So you can work more on these areas and keep improving.

TedEd - Here, you can find a number of videos related to any topic you are interested in. Each video has a lesson with comprehension questions to check for understanding, open-ended questions and links to explore more.

News in Slow English - Each week, hosts discuss current news and American culture at a slow pace, focusing on key aspects of language learning, including listening comprehension, rapid vocabulary expansion, English grammar, common idiomatic expressions, interactive pronunciation and grammar exercises, and live speaking practice.

Games To Learn English - Play quick, simple, and fun games to improve your English vocabulary, grammar, and reading comprehension.

HelloTalk - Learn a language by chatting with native speakers around the world. Chat with native language speakers via text, voice recordings, voice calls, video calls, and even doodles!

Happy learning! 

Alix Ruggiero 

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Business is fun: Online Shop

In the EP Javeriana, Business is fun and we work on different projects during the School year. Online Shop is one of the favourite ones. The different teams launch a new business by developing an online shop. To sell globally, the website needs to be in English, of course!

The group with David Crespo, Nayelly Lara, Leila Maujo and Miguel del Villar launched Wine&Box. This is what David Crespo writes about their project:

"We think that wine is one of the most famous drinks of our country, and we think on that about how we can sell this product in an original package, so in our website you can choose a popular wine, a different type of box, and you can personalize the box and the stickers as you like. I mean, if it's Saint Valentine's Day, you can create your own box personalised or choose a special creation, you can give as a present.

We offer you three different types of wine: red wine, pink wine and white wine. In these three types of wine, you can choose your perfect election with three different prices. High Price, Medium Price and cheap. We adapt to our customers.

In this project, we needed to be a group more than ever in the course, because we wanted a very great work: we needed a great website, but we also needed a great pitch for sell our product on the presentation for the class, and personally, I really enjoy it.

What did we learn?

In this project, we learnt a lot about how difficult is to have a novel idea and put it into operation. First we were thinking about the idea, after that we split for some to make the design of the web in an attractive way, we had to look for various types of wines and boxes, perform a return policy and even a list of frequently asked questions. Finally, we created a slogan to present the brand and look for an attractive way to present our website.

You can visit our website by clicking on the picture:" We hope you like it! 

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Interesting website

Hi everyone! I'm Paloma. I'm in my sophomore year of International Trade. I would like to show you this website TED where you can learn English the best way possible. Just dedicate a short time every day! It's not difficult. I hope this helps!
Regards, Paloma Pérez

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