Industry-Specific Business English

General business English covers meetings and emails; each industry adds its own language on top. These free reference pages map the specialist vocabulary and typical job tasks for eleven fields - useful for teachers building an ESP course and for learners who need the language of their own work, not textbook English.

Examples of the job-task framing: in insurance - explaining a policy exclusion to a client, negotiating treaty wording, writing a claims summary. In engineering - running a technical handover, escalating a quality problem, walking a customer through a root-cause analysis. In IT - sprint reviews, incident reports, explaining technical debt to non-technical stakeholders.

The eleven fields: insurance, finance, IT & software, engineering, logistics, pharma & biotech, renewable energy, sales, tourism, gastronomy, journalism. Start with insurance - the other ten are linked from any field page: www.englisch-lehrer.com/en/online/fachsprache/versicherungen

For teachers: pick one job task ("escalate a quality problem"), pair it with a grammar lesson from the Lesson Library page of this guide, and close with a role-play from the worksheet prompts.

For companies that need a whole team trained in one field's English, a free initial consultation with a native-speaker trainer is available: www.englisch-lehrer.com/en/contact

Created by Simmonds Language Services, Hannover & Berlin - www.englisch-lehrer.com