Business English: Talking About Your Schedule
| This is the first entry in the series “Schedule English.” All week, we’ll be covering the vocabulary and grammar of schedules! The other posts in this series are: |
I think English is a wonderful language—and not only because it’s my native language—it’s a language you can use for travel. It’s a language you can use to learn more about your favorite hobbies on the Internet. It’s a language you can use to communicate with people all over the world. . . not just in the U.S. or U.K. or another ‘English speaking’ country. People in Germany speak English, as well as in India or in China.
Even though you can use English for a lot of things, one of the things that my students need English for the most is their work. There’s a lot of English to cover for talking about work—and, with time, we’ll cover it—but this week we’re going to focus on talking about our schedules. In the first listening exercise, you’re going to get a clear definition of the word schedule, as both a noun and a verb. And we’re going to talk about something related to a schedule: the to-do list.
But, we’re also going to cover the vocabulary you can use to describe your schedule and the differences between the meanings of each word. We’ll continue talking about the ‘get verbs’—you can use them for almost everything, and certainly for schedules—and we’ll talk about two verbs that my students often confuse: remember and remind.
At the end of the week, you’ll hear about a problem my wife and I are having with our private schedule. . . and that’ll be the end of a long week of English for work.
Better Topic Ideas
If you have ideas for a topic that you’d like included. Remember: you can always let me know. I prefer to go over the topics you suggest. As per request, I’ll try to talk a little more about the different sides of Business English.
