In this Business English Podcast lesson, we’re going to look at the language of presenting your products and services to potential clients in informal situations. Following on from our episode on hosting a site visit, we return to our friends at the railway tunnel. Stanley Wang is a site agent for a railway construction project [...]

There are many different kinds of sites. We often speak of construction sites, a site where something is being built ??? such as buildings, roads, bridges, airports, and so on. But a site can also be a completed structure, like a factory or even sometimes an office. In a site visit, visitors come on site [...]

This is the second in a two-part Business English Podcast series on discussing previous experience in workplace English job interviews. It is one of an ongoing sequence of ESL podcasts that covers the whole job interview process. In Part 2 today, we listen to a better interview performance by someone who has prepared to talk about their previous experience more effectively. In this good example, Sherry Shen, from Hong Kong, is interviewing with a multinational accounting company for her first job after graduating with a Master???s in finance.

Checking in to hotels is another important part of travel, whether it's for business or for pleasure. This episode follows on from BEP 79 Travel: Reserving a Hotel Room, in which Sarah Johnson called to reserve a room at the Majestic Hotel in New York. Sarah has now arrived, and she is ready to begin her stay. In this Business English Podcast lesson, we will focus on phrases and vocabulary - both for checking in and for enquiring about hotel services whilst checking in.

Today's Business English Podcast lesson is on making a hotel reservation. It's something all of us need to do: Whether it's for a company business trip, or for personal travel - we all need to, at some time or another, call a hotel to reserve a room. Of course, making reservations is not only useful for hotels but also for all sorts of situations - conferences, restaurants, airplane travel, and any other type of event that requires us to book in advance. That is the skill that we will be practicing in this episode - making reservations. Along the way, we'll also be learning vocabulary for staying in hotels.

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