hi everyone and welcome it's been a very long time since i've sat down and done a bit of a sit-down
talking video so i thought it was about time i did and i have attempted to do this video in a rather
professional spoken manner with professional vocabulary but it turns out i can't do that so
i'm gonna try and keep this a little bit informal which actually goes along with one of the themes
of this video as well and i think as a regular viewer you appreciate me being myself anyway so
with that in mind let's get going this video is about a new ebook which i released about a month
ago at the end of october but i'm only getting around to doing this now it's called business
english through coaching and conversation and just to get a couple of disclaimers out the way
if you like from the outset to be absolutely clear this video is very much an advert for marketing
purposes for this ebook secondly if this is a video that you've clicked on expecting to see a
guide about teaching english online to children in china using one of those chinese companies
this isn't the video for you and thirdly i have to apologize in advance because i'm in an airbnb
in riga in latvia there's a train going past every five seconds outside and my heating is buzzing i
can't turn it off so i do apologize so let's get on to the e-book now i'm gonna do this kind of
back to front if you like so the first half is going to be very much for those of you
that already know me you know you don't need my background i'm just going to talk about the ebook
and what it entails the second half is for those of you that you know it's the first time you've
seen this ugly mug and you want to know a bit about my background and why i've written this
ebook so what does the ebook can tell it is made up of three sections why how and what i just swore
at you let's do the wire section first this is very much for those of you that are thinking about
getting into teaching english online or even any other language perhaps as a side hustle or even as
a completely new career or it could be for those of you as well that are established or experienced
teachers that want to get into business english as well now the y section talks about exactly why
students in 2020 need and want to learn business english or improve in their business english
the world of work has changed you know the whole thing about formal boardroom meetings and formal
face-to-face interviews that's moved on you know informal communication is key nowadays people are
working at home working remotely with dogs cats and babies screaming in the background people are
using informal platforms zoom skype slack whatsapp facebook messenger instagram you name it people's
business needs have changed it's not just about discussing sales in a meeting or having a formal
technical job interview it's about behavioral job interviews coming across as a human being it's
about different things now with business obviously there are many entrepreneurs online entrepreneurs
digital nomads like me that have businesses they run on instagram they need to write
professional instagram captions they need to have accurate websites and blog posts they might be
doing udemy courses you name it there are so many reasons why business english is needed nowadays
and it's moved on so that's one of the well the crux of this this ebook really is about the fact
that things have moved on it's not just about formal language anymore informality is equally
as essential the house section is all about how i teach business english the coaching aspect is
incredibly important one of the main issues that many students face is the fact that they have
great vocabulary they have great grammar but their confidence to speak in a business environment is
can be almost non-existent so it's all about you know those techniques that you can use to
build confidence and motivate conversation is key you know providing a list of vocabulary is great
but if they're not going to use it in conversation what's the point all of my lesson plans in this
ebook which i'll come on to in a second are conversation based so there are no textbooks
there are no exercises it's all about real business related conversation which brings me on
to the what section i have put together over 60 lesson plans which are behavioral skills based
issues based and also industry specific or technical and these are made up of a variety
of sections so i'll put one to the right or left of me i'm not sure how the camera is working yeah
so this one is about feedback a very simple sort of behavioral topic that we we all know and love
there is a section on there with some prompts or almost some questions or just as a bit of a guide
if you like for you as the teacher to structure your lesson there is also a section with some
useful relevant phrasal verbs collocations and idioms which you can incorporate into lessons as
target language and hopefully the aim would be for the student to then start using that as part
of their active vocabulary the industry specific topics are slightly different there is the same
section with the prompts i'll put one next to me now about agile methodology in it instead of
those pieces of vocab etc there's pre-work and technical prompts so both for you and the student
you can use them to kind of research or read about things that might come up in the lesson because
obviously you know you as a teacher probably you haven't worked as a software developer you might
not know about agile methodology so you might need to do a bit of work in terms of just prompting
yourself around those technical points before you start discussing it in a conversational lesson i
have to get that in there okay lovely also in the what section are some interview questions now you
know the world of interviewing has moved on it's not about saying what are your strengths and
weaknesses where do you see yourself in five years of course those questions are asked still and
they are in the ebook but you know particularly with companies nowadays where people might be
working remotely they might be working in it or in some sort of digital digital environment
questioning has changed and it's not just about technical questions and for me as a an xhr manager
it's about that behavioural aspect as well you know we want to hear things to highlight the fact
that the candidate is a human they're not a robot we want to hear about how they react to failure
how they reflect on those things how they deal with success the importance of recognition and
praise you name it so there are many questions in there that actually are often used in large
companies like google and facebook i've had many people in the past who had interviews with them
and as well as those interview questions you will also find a page with some links with some other
useful prompts and questions and links that you can use in your lessons on top of that you will
find some stuff which i actually included in an old ebook collocations idioms and phrasal verbs
not just lists but also examples it's great to use that kind of stuff as target language
in a lesson so you know send them five idioms for example it's their challenge to try and use that
in the lesson how do you get hold of these ebooks okay check down in the description below you'll
see a link to my pay hip site where you can see all of my ebooks as well as my old ones that
i wrote as well there are a number of offers on there so you can get a percentage discount if you
buy another one of my products also if you share on facebook you can get a certain percentage off
as well reasons i'm not saying numbers is that you know you might be watching this in a year's time
after releasing them things may have changed one very important point to highlight is that
there are two ebooks one of them has a blue cover which is the whole ebook that encompasses the why
how and what sections the green one is only the what section i cannot reiterate this enough so if
you are established or experienced as a business english teacher you might just want some lesson
plans you don't want to know the why and the how part because you may know that already
so if you are in that position only by the green one don't buy both of them okay i'm reiterating
that again and again okay now of course if you have any questions about the ebooks or in general
anything to do with teaching english online put it down in the comments below on my website you
can also find a service that i offer where i offer a one-hour skype consultation call
it can be a structured call or it can just be a case of answering questions question and answer
kind of thing so you can find details of that on my website okay on to the second half of this
video which is very much for those of you that haven't seen me before so just to introduce myself
i'm david i'm from the uk from london you can probably tell that by my accent i worked in hr for
many years i've got an a level of business studies i used to work as an hr manager for a large uk
company so as a result i do a lot of business english lessons and most of my students are b2
to c2 level many of them live in russian-speaking countries such as obviously russia belarus ukraine
places like that and eastern europe many of them have already relocated to other countries
in western europe for example switzerland and germany or asia hong kong singapore
places like that most of them work in areas such as it so i have many software developers
business analysts product designers you name it that particularly work around the development
of mobile apps websites also areas like banking so risk management i have a lot of people that
work for large banks in russia and switzerland the reason i wrote this ebook was largely around
the fact that i feel the world of business english has moved on it's not about that formality anymore
of course it's there but in formal informality is equally as important i felt like that there
wasn't material available for teachers i've written ebooks before which were largely for
people that were wanting to get getting started on italki but i wanted to go into something a
bit more specific and niche and detailed for those teachers that wanted to get into business english
you know a lot of the material that's available online even in cambridge textbooks is very general
it's very outdated rather technical you know with exams you know cambridge business exams a lot of
things i see are about you know describe how you would act in a sales meeting a software
developer doesn't work in cell so why do they need to know about that and lastly there wasn't
enough focus on behavioral aspects of roles because we all know what it's like we've all
been to job interviews where you know we have to describe our behavioral development needs etc but
it always just goes back to the technical bit trust me i've done thousands of interviews
where that has happened so i really wanted to produce something that catered for students that
was more specific and more relevant because you know you've got to remember that classroom
environments and one-to-one online teaching are very different kettles of fish obviously a teacher
in a classroom it's going to have a syllabus or a curriculum and you know everyone has to follow
the same thing but it's not relevant to everyone because everyone is at different levels but with
online teaching and with something like the ebook that i've produced you can really go into detail
specific detail and tailor things for specific students right as i said there are a lot of trains
going past outside but we'll finish this anyway so the last thing i will say is that you know as well
as teaching english online i'm a digital nomad i travel full-time i film youtube videos i write
ebooks you name it and something like teaching online can be an awesome kind of lead aspect
of your income streams or even supplementary so you know using something incorporating something
like business english into your teaching if you are a teacher can really help in you gaining a
real niche you know i i love having people that work in banking in switzerland it's brilliant and
you know software developers i know so many russian software developers now it's amazing
so you can really kind of build a network as well and learn new things yourself so thanks
for watching everyone i hope you enjoyed the e-book if you choose to buy it any questions
like i said put them down in the comments below thanks very much and i'll catch you later