Business English for Spanish students

Do you teach Business English to Spanish-speaking students? If so, you should find our new guide useful:

Update 2023: The free digital version of this guide is still available. However, if you’re the sort of person who prefers paper to pixels then you can buy the physical book in our Business English Online Shop.

Telephone English Guide

Speaking on the phone is one of the most difficult tasks that language-learners will face in a business context. There are no visual guides and often very little time to formulate coherent responses.  To help students feel instantly more at ease speaking on the telephone we’re publishing Inglés para el teléfono.

Written in Spanish, this free, 60-page guide takes students from zero to hero intermediate level in 4 easy-to-digest chapters.
With a simple, colourful layout, Inglés para el teléfono gives students the language they need in order to defend themselves in everyday telephone conversations.

Sections of the guide

The four sections look at distinct aspects of the English we typically use when we talk by phone in a business context.

• Answer the phone / Contestar el teléfono
• Making a call / Hacer una llamada
• Taking and giving messages / Dejar o Tomar un recado
• Solve communication problems / Solucionar problemas de comunicación

Format

This guide is available in PDF format. Audio files are published as MP3s and can be downloaded as a ZIP file.

It’s all free

The guide and audio files are completely free.  At Linguabanca our goal is to offer all our digital TEFL resources free-of-charge.

Download the guide

You can download the guide and all audio files from our Spanish language site Inglés Negocios 23. On IN23 you’ll also find a 4-level online course on English for the telephone.  Check out level 1 here.

Download the English/Spanish Phone Guide here

Telephone English…in English

If you teach Business English anywhere in the world, your students should like the new Telephone English course from Business English 23. The first few classes have already been published and we’ll be adding more resources throughout 2021.

Email English

BE23 also has a growing section showing you how to write professional emails in English. Check it out! All the content is free.