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Learn business English for meetings with our new Meeting Essentials eBook.

We’re pleased to announce the 3rd edition of our Meeting Essentials eBook, with updated lessons and audio.

If you use English in meetings, this eBook will help you communicate more clearly and confidently. Meeting Essentials is an 11-unit audio eBook that teaches the key language you need for a wide range of meeting situations, from informal team discussions to formal business meetings.

You’ll learn how to express opinions, agree and disagree, make suggestions, and clarify ideas. The course also covers how to run meetings effectively, including starting the meeting, managing the discussion, dealing with interruptions, and closing with clear action points.

Each lesson features realistic dialogs, clear explanations, and practical language you can apply immediately in the workplace. The 3rd edition includes updated content, new explanations, and newly produced audio recordings available in PDF and MP3 format.

All eBooks are included with premium membership, or you can purchase the eBook for $15.95.

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We’re excited to announce the 3rd edition of our Presentation Essentials eBook, now with updated lessons and new audio.

If you need to present in English, this eBook will help you build the language and skills you need to present with confidence. Presentation Essentials is an 8-unit audio eBook designed to help you communicate clearly, confidently, and effectively in English presentations.

The lessons cover the full presentation process. You’ll learn how to open and structure your business English presentation, use clear signposting language, and guide your audience through your ideas. You’ll also develop language for describing charts and trends, explaining data, and highlighting key trends.

In the final units, we focus on finishing off your presentation and handling questions. You’ll learn how to summarize your message, deliver a clear call to action, and manage the Q&A session.

Each lesson includes realistic dialogs, clear explanations, and practice activities, along with downloadable PDF transcripts and MP3 listening files.

All eBooks are included with premium membership, or you can purchase the eBook for $15.95.

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Welcome back to Business English Pod for today’s lesson on analyzing trends during a presentation in English.

Business is a game of numbers. And whether you’re in marketing, finance, sales, or operations, you have different metrics that tell you whether you’re successful. Read any business report, and you’ll see these metrics presented in charts and graphs.

But charts and graphs aren’t enough on their own. Sure, you can use them to present a snapshot of the current state. And you can show how different numbers have gone up or down relative to other numbers. But so what? The numbers are only useful if we can analyze them, learn from them, and make better decisions with them.

When you analyze trends in a presentation, it’s a good idea to clearly state your approach from the beginning. Then you can do things like describe the rate of change and speculate about future developments. You might also make specific predictions about what will happen and raise people’s awareness of possible future trends.

In today’s dialog, we’ll rejoin a presentation at a mobile company called Ambient. A director named Pat has been presenting results for sales and market share. Now Pat is digging deeper and analyzing the company’s performance on one key metric: revenue per unit, or RPU.

Listening Questions

1. What is Pat going to compare in his approach to analyzing trends?

2. What does Pat predict about his company’s “RPU” in the future?

3. What possible future trend does Pat warn about at the end of the dialog?

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Welcome back to Business English Pod for today’s lesson on describing trends during a presentation in English.

Every great presentation has two things: good content and skilled delivery. These aren’t separate features. The content becomes good through skilled delivery. And skilled delivery means bringing the content alive, rather than just reading from a slide deck.

This marriage of content and delivery is especially important with charts and graphs. Many people know that visuals can enhance a presentation. But we’ve all had the experience of seeing a graph that’s so confusing that we come away feeling we know less, not more. So as a good presenter, you need to tell the graph’s story.

A graph’s story is all about change. Or lack of change. When we are presenting a graph, it’s always good to begin by introducing the theme, so people know what they’re looking at. Then we can bring people’s attention to specific parts of the graph. And we might describe how things are decreasing, staying the same, or increasing.

In today’s dialog, we’ll rejoin a presentation from Pat, a director with a mobile phone company called Ambient. Pat is giving a presentation to his sales team about market share. He’s talking about their own company as well as the competition, describing the trends in market share.

Listening Questions

1. What does Pat say is the theme of the chart that he’s showing?

2. Which company’s market share decreased in 2007?

3. What does Pat say about the market share of all the smaller competitors in recent quarters?

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In this Business English News lesson on data centers, we look at business English vocabulary related to energy supply and tech.

AI seemed relatively uncontroversial when it was limited to simple functions in your toothbrush or car. But then, in 2022, ChatGPT made an enormous splash, signaling the commercialization of generative AI. Since then, there’s been a rapid proliferation of new tools. And the popularity of these tools has necessitated massive infrastructure to support all this computing power.

The energy demand is huge. In 2024, U.S. data centers used 183 terawatt-hours of electricity – more than 4% of all U.S. power usage. A single large AI data center can use as much electricity as 100,000 homes in a year. Bigger ones under construction may use twenty times more. This growing demand puts pressure on local power grids and can lead to increased energy costs.

They also need large amounts of water to keep their machines cool, which can strain local water supplies. Yet companies are not required to fully report their energy or water use.

As concerns grow about higher bills, water shortages, and climate change, companies promise cleaner energy and better technology. Still, experts warn that AI’s energy use may grow faster than these improvements.

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