Business Grammar Programme

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Who This Programme Is For

This 22-unit programme is designed for B1/B2 level professionals who need to strengthen their English grammar foundation for business contexts. Whether you're writing reports, leading meetings, or presenting to stakeholders, this programme will give you the grammatical accuracy and sophistication to communicate with confidence and credibility.

What You'll Learn

The programme systematically develops both core grammar structures and business-specific language patterns. You'll master essential tenses, modal verbs, conditionals, and complex sentence structures, then apply these to authentic business communication—emails, reports, presentations, and meetings.

Each unit balances explicit grammar instruction with immediate business application. You'll learn grammar rules, but more importantly, you'll practice using them in real professional situations—writing emails, describing projects, reporting results, and participating in meetings.

Programme Structure

The programme comprises 9 modules containing 22 units. Modules 1-5 develop core grammar structures including tenses, modals, conditionals, passive voice, and reported speech. Module 6 focuses on advanced clause structures for sophisticated writing. Module 7 covers comparison structures for analysis and persuasion. Module 8 develops sentence connectors and structural elements. Module 9 builds business-specific vocabulary and expressions.

Key Learning Approach

Recognize that business communication requires systematic grammar knowledge applied in context. Build grammatical accuracy through explicit instruction combined with immediate business application. Practice authentic scenarios while receiving correction on both form and usage. Result: Confident, accurate business communication with strong grammatical foundation.

Programme Content

Module 1: Tense Systems (2 units)

Unit 1: Present & Past Tenses

What you'll learn: Master the present simple, present continuous, present perfect, and present perfect continuous tenses, understanding when to use each in business contexts. You'll also cover past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous, recognizing how these tenses show time relationships and completed vs ongoing actions.

Practice: Choose the correct tense for business scenarios, describe current projects and responsibilities, report on past events and achievements, and write updates using appropriate tense combinations.

Focus: Business applications: describing company activities, reporting on completed projects, discussing current situations, and explaining background information in presentations or reports.

Unit 2: Future Forms & Perfect Tenses

What you'll learn: Use will, going to, present continuous for arrangements, and present simple for schedules to express different types of future meaning. You'll distinguish between predictions, plans, arrangements, and scheduled events. You'll also master future perfect and future perfect continuous for discussing completion and duration up to a future point.

Practice: Describe plans, predictions, and scheduled events appropriately, write about future deadlines and milestones, discuss what will be completed by specific dates, and make commitments using suitable future forms.

Focus: Business contexts: project planning, making predictions in presentations, discussing timelines, commitments in meetings, and setting expectations in emails and reports.

Module 2: Modal Verbs (2 units)

Unit 3: Obligation, Necessity & Permission

What you'll learn: Distinguish between must, have to, need to, should, and ought to for expressing different levels of obligation and necessity. You'll learn when to use can, may, could, and might for permissions and requests, understanding the formality levels of each. You'll also cover mustn't vs don't have to for prohibitions and lack of necessity.

Practice: Make polite requests and give permissions appropriately, express obligations in different registers, write policies and procedures using correct modals, and understand compliance language in business documents.

Focus: Professional communication: company policies, workplace rules, formal requests, giving advice to colleagues, writing instructions, and discussing requirements in meetings.

Unit 4: Possibility, Deduction & Advice

What you'll learn: Use could, might, and may to express possibility and speculation with appropriate certainty levels. You'll master must, can't, and might for making deductions about present and past situations. You'll learn should, ought to, and had better for giving advice and recommendations in business contexts.

Practice: Make deductions about business situations, speculate about causes and outcomes, give tactful advice and recommendations, and write analysis using appropriate modal verbs for certainty levels.

Focus: Business applications: risk assessment, problem analysis, giving recommendations in reports, making predictions, discussing possible solutions, and softening statements diplomatically.

Module 3: Conditionals (2 units)

Unit 5: Zero, First & Second Conditionals

What you'll learn: Form and use zero conditionals for general truths and processes, first conditionals for real future possibilities, and second conditionals for hypothetical present/future situations. You'll understand when each conditional type is appropriate and how to use them in professional contexts.

Practice: Describe business processes and procedures using zero conditional, discuss real possibilities and their consequences using first conditional, make hypothetical suggestions using second conditional, and negotiate using conditional structures.

Focus: Business contexts: explaining how systems work, discussing realistic outcomes, exploring alternative scenarios, making polite suggestions, and negotiations.

Unit 6: Third Conditional & Mixed Conditionals

What you'll learn: Use third conditionals to discuss hypothetical past situations and their imagined results. You'll master mixed conditionals for connecting past conditions to present results, and present conditions to past results. You'll understand how these structures help in analysis, reflection, and learning from experience.

Practice: Analyze past decisions and their outcomes, discuss what might have happened differently, reflect on missed opportunities, and write post-project analyses using appropriate conditional forms.

Focus: Professional applications: project reviews, performance analysis, lessons learned documents, evaluating past decisions, and discussing alternative strategies retrospectively.

Module 4: Passive Voice (2 units)

Unit 7: Present & Past Passive

What you'll learn: Form and use present simple passive, present continuous passive, past simple passive, and past continuous passive. You'll understand when and why to use passive voice in business communication—to focus on actions rather than agents, maintain formality, or avoid assigning responsibility.

Practice: Transform active sentences to passive appropriately, write formal business documents using passive voice, describe processes and procedures, and understand when active vs passive is more suitable.

Focus: Business writing: formal reports, process documentation, minutes of meetings, describing company operations, and maintaining professional distance in communication.

Unit 8: Perfect & Modal Passives

What you'll learn: Use present perfect passive, past perfect passive, and future perfect passive to show completed actions without emphasizing the agent. You'll combine modal verbs with passive voice (can be done, must be completed, should have been checked) for expressing necessity, possibility, and advice in formal contexts.

Practice: Describe completed actions focusing on results, write about requirements and obligations using modal passives, report on actions without naming responsible parties, and create professional documentation.

Focus: Professional contexts: quality standards, compliance documentation, formal announcements, procedures and policies, performance reports, and diplomatically addressing problems.

Module 5: Reported Speech (2 units)

Unit 9: Reporting Statements & Questions

What you'll learn: Transform direct speech into reported speech, applying backshifting rules for tenses. You'll report statements using say and tell, and questions using ask and want to know. You'll master time and place word changes (now→then, here→there, today→that day) and understand when backshifting isn't necessary.

Practice: Report what was said in meetings, summarize conversations and phone calls, write meeting minutes using reported speech, and relay messages accurately in emails.

Focus: Business applications: meeting minutes, email summaries, reporting conversations to colleagues, writing up agreements, and documenting discussions professionally.

Unit 10: Reporting Commands, Requests & Mixed Forms

What you'll learn: Report imperatives, requests, and suggestions using appropriate reporting verbs (tell, ask, order, advise, suggest, recommend, offer, promise). You'll handle mixed tenses in reported speech and use reporting verbs that don't require backshifting. You'll develop a range of reporting verbs for precise meaning.

Practice: Report instructions and requests accurately, document action items from meetings, summarize commitments and agreements, and choose appropriate reporting verbs for different speech acts.

Focus: Professional contexts: action logs, following up on agreements, documenting instructions, writing formal records of decisions, and maintaining accuracy in business communication.

Module 6: Advanced Clause Structures (3 units)

Unit 11: Defining Relative Clauses

What you'll learn: Use defining relative clauses to identify and describe people, things, places, times, and reasons in business contexts. You'll master relative pronouns (who, which, that, where, when, why) and understand when they can be omitted for more natural English.

Practice: Combine sentences using relative clauses, describe business roles and responsibilities using defining clauses, write job descriptions and process explanations, and identify when relative pronouns can be omitted.

Focus: Business applications: defining roles ("The person who handles...", "The department which deals with..."), describing products and services, explaining processes, and writing specifications or requirements.

Unit 12: Non-defining Relative Clauses & Reduced Relatives

What you'll learn: Distinguish between defining and non-defining relative clauses, master the punctuation rules, and reduce relative clauses to participles for concise professional writing. You'll understand when additional information requires commas and how to create sophisticated, economical descriptions.

Practice: Add non-defining clauses to provide additional information, punctuate relative clauses correctly, reduce relative clauses to present or past participles, and choose between defining and non-defining forms appropriately.

Focus: Professional writing: adding supplementary information about people or projects, writing concise descriptions, formal business correspondence, and creating sophisticated, flowing prose in reports and proposals.

Unit 13: Participle Clauses

What you'll learn: Use present participles (-ing), past participles (-ed), and perfect participles (having + past participle) to create concise, sophisticated sentences. You'll learn to replace time clauses, reason clauses, and sequential actions with participle structures—a hallmark of advanced business writing.

Practice: Transform full clauses into participle clauses, combine sentences using participle structures, identify participle clause errors, and write concise business descriptions using appropriate participle forms.

Focus: Business writing contexts: concise report writing ("Having completed the analysis, we recommend..."), cause and effect ("Facing increased competition, the company..."), sequential actions, and formal business correspondence.

Module 7: Comparison & Description (1 unit)

Unit 14: Comparison Structures (Comparative & Superlative)

What you'll learn: Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, including irregular forms. You'll master structures for making comparisons (as...as, more...than, the most..., less...than) and advanced comparison patterns used in business analysis and persuasion.

Practice: Compare products, services, or options in presentations, write comparative analysis in reports, use superlatives for emphasis and claims, and modify comparisons for precision (slightly more, significantly less, by far the best).

Focus: Business contexts: market analysis, competitive positioning, performance reviews, option analysis, persuasive presentations, and supporting recommendations with comparative data.

Module 8: Sentence Connectors & Structure (3 units)

Unit 15: Conjunctive Adverbs

What you'll learn: Use conjunctive adverbs (however, therefore, moreover, furthermore, nevertheless, consequently) to connect ideas logically and create cohesion in professional writing. You'll master the punctuation rules and understand the formal register these connectors convey.

Practice: Connect contrasting ideas using appropriate conjunctive adverbs, show cause and effect in business writing, add supporting points in structured arguments, and punctuate complex sentences correctly.

Focus: Professional writing: formal reports, proposals, executive summaries, persuasive documents, and any writing requiring logical flow and sophisticated connection between ideas.

Unit 16: Infinitives, Prepositions & Articles

What you'll learn: Use infinitives vs gerunds correctly with common business verbs (want to do, enjoy doing, avoid doing). You'll master prepositions in common business collocations and phrases. You'll review article usage (a, an, the, or no article) in professional contexts, especially with abstract nouns, generalizations, and specific references.

Practice: Choose correct verb patterns in business contexts, use prepositions accurately in fixed expressions, apply article rules in formal writing, and avoid common article errors in business English.

Focus: Business applications: accurate verb patterns for professional credibility, standard business collocations, formal writing conventions, and avoiding non-native speaker article mistakes.

Unit 17: Quantifiers

What you'll learn: Use quantifiers (some, any, many, much, few, little, several, both, all, most, no) correctly with countable and uncountable nouns. You'll distinguish between few/a few, little/a little for different meanings, and use quantifiers for approximation in reports and presentations.

Practice: Describe quantities in business contexts accurately, present data using appropriate quantifiers, write reports with precise but diplomatic language, and avoid overgeneralizations.

Focus: Business contexts: presenting survey results, describing market data, reporting on resources, discussing scope and scale, and using appropriate vagueness for diplomacy or uncertainty.

Module 9: Business Vocabulary (5 units)

Unit 18: Verb-Noun Collocations

What you'll learn: Master essential business verb-noun collocations (make a decision, take responsibility, reach an agreement, conduct research, implement changes, meet deadlines, achieve targets). You'll learn which verbs naturally combine with which business nouns.

Practice: Replace weak verbs with strong collocations, write emails and reports using natural business English, identify and correct incorrect verb-noun combinations, and develop fluency with common business expressions.

Focus: Professional communication: emails, reports, presentations, meetings—using natural, idiomatic business English that native speakers recognize and expect.

Unit 19: Adjective-Noun Collocations

What you'll learn: Use strong adjective-noun collocations in business contexts (strong evidence, keen interest, close collaboration, detailed analysis, slight delay, significant improvement, viable solution). You'll learn which adjectives naturally pair with common business nouns for professional, native-like expression.

Practice: Strengthen business writing with precise adjective-noun combinations, describe situations using strong collocations, avoid weak or unnatural adjective choices, and sound more professional and fluent.

Focus: Business writing: formal reports, proposals, professional correspondence—choosing collocations that sound natural and authoritative to native English speakers.

Unit 20: Business Idioms

What you'll learn: Understand and use common business idioms appropriately (get the ball rolling, on the same page, think outside the box, touch base, bottom line, win-win situation). You'll learn which idioms are appropriate in different business contexts and which to avoid as clichés.

Practice: Recognize idioms in business conversations and emails, use appropriate idioms in meetings and presentations, understand when idioms are too informal, and distinguish between useful idioms and tired clichés.

Focus: Professional contexts: meetings, negotiations, presentations, less formal business correspondence—understanding native speakers and using idioms appropriately without overuse.

Unit 21: Business Phrasal Verbs (Set 1)

What you'll learn: Master the first set of essential business phrasal verbs: bring up (mention), call off (cancel), carry out (execute), deal with (handle), figure out (understand/solve), follow up (pursue further), go over (review), hand in (submit), look into (investigate), point out (mention/highlight).

Practice: Use phrasal verbs naturally in business contexts, replace formal verbs with phrasal verbs for less formal communication, understand phrasal verbs in emails and meetings, and develop natural business speaking style.

Focus: Business applications: meetings, phone calls, informal emails, discussions—using phrasal verbs appropriately to sound natural and fluent in everyday business English.

Unit 22: Business Phrasal Verbs (Set 2)

What you'll learn: Master the second set of essential business phrasal verbs: set up (establish/arrange), run through (review quickly), work out (solve/calculate), put off (postpone), bring forward (reschedule earlier), phase out (gradually eliminate), take over (assume control), turn down (reject), draw up (create formally), fall through (fail to happen).

Practice: Distinguish between similar phrasal verbs, use separable vs inseparable phrasal verbs correctly, employ phrasal verbs in appropriate business contexts, and develop comprehensive understanding of business phrasal verb usage.

Focus: Business contexts: project management discussions, scheduling conversations, negotiations, strategic planning—completing your command of phrasal verbs for full professional fluency.

Programme Benefits

Systematic Grammar Foundation

Build comprehensive grammar knowledge through structured progression from essential tenses and modals to sophisticated clause structures and business vocabulary. Each module develops specific grammatical competencies while maintaining focus on business application. Result: Complete grammar foundation for professional English communication.

Immediate Business Application

Practice every grammar structure in authentic business contexts. Write emails using perfect tenses, create reports with passive voice, conduct meetings using modal verbs, and present using comparison structures. Your grammar learning connects directly to your professional communication needs.

Accuracy with Confidence

Develop both grammatical accuracy and the confidence to use complex structures in real business situations. Through systematic instruction, controlled practice, and authentic application, you'll move from uncertainty to confident, accurate professional communication.

What You'll Have at the End

Complete understanding of English grammar structures from foundational to advanced levels. Ability to use tenses, modals, conditionals, passive voice, and reported speech accurately in business contexts. Command of sophisticated structures including relative clauses, participle clauses, and comparison patterns. Natural use of business collocations, idioms, and phrasal verbs. Strong foundation for any professional English communication—writing, speaking, or presentations.

How Your Learning Works

In Each Unit

Clear grammar instruction explains rules and usage patterns with business examples. Controlled practice develops accuracy through focused exercises. Business application tasks use the grammar in authentic professional contexts—emails, reports, presentations, meetings. Immediate feedback corrects errors and reinforces accurate usage.

Your Support

Your instructor will assess your current grammar level and identify priority areas. Provide clear explanations and answer your grammar questions. Give immediate correction and feedback on accuracy. Track your progress through systematic grammar development. Adapt pace and focus based on your specific needs and learning style.

Ready to Begin?

This programme will develop your English grammar from B1/B2 foundations to confident business-level accuracy through systematic instruction, controlled practice, and authentic business application.

Each unit builds on previous learning, creating a clear path to grammatical accuracy and confidence. With consistent practice and application, you'll develop the grammar foundation needed for professional English communication.

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Programme designed for B1/B2 level professionals seeking grammatical accuracy in business English

22 units provide comprehensive grammar coverage with consistent business application

Individual units can be adjusted based on your specific needs and progress