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1Business Balls

Great sources for free online learning tools for business and about business

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2Charts Builder

If you need an online to talk about charts and change. Super tool for practicing speaking and using difficult grammar points

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3Quizlet

Can't live with Quizlet. Teachers and learners can add, learn and practice new vocabulary asynchronously. Offers card making, games and tests.

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4Wordle and Cloud Making

Nice and easy to use tool for making word clouds that can be saved.

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5Capturing phrases: Phraseum

New tool to save and organise phrases or idioms for learning.

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6English Vocabulary Profile

Need to check words against the CEFR? Then this is the right tool.

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7Lexical tool for texts

The "look" of the page may be awful but the website and the tools are a must for any business or ESP trainer.

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8TED's Educational lessons

If you're a novice to using TED www.ted.com in the classroom, this might help you to get started.

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9Newssmart, ELT and the Wall Street Journal Combined

This is probably one of the best websites available at the moment, a English learning tool (for free) that allows learners to tackle new vocabulary using a fresh looking learning tool and up-to-date news topics from WSJ.

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10Russell Stannard's Teacher's Training website

This is so fantastic - it will take ages to get through all the super ideas Russell has to offer.

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11Jing

Free screenshot and screencast software for linking or emphasising a point in training.

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12Natural Reader - listening to different accents speaking English

Free text speech software with natural sounding voices and speeds lets you paste texts that will be read out loud to you with a particular accent. This is relatively new website so they do not have all the accents up and running. You will have to pay a fee to get access to the less common accents.

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13English for the Workplace - University of Wellington

One of the few universities who has done research on authentic Business English in the Workplace. Articles, research results and teaching resources are available for teachers to use in the classroom

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14Enron's Corpus

Available to everyone around the world. You can download Enron's entire email correspondence for analysis and email training.

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15Sync: Online document editing

Here, multiple people can edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate with text documents, useful for meeting notes, brainstorming, project planning, training, and more.

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16Mind Tools for Business Communication

Great website with articles on communication and how to improve your communication skills. Unfortunately, you will have to pay a fee to get access original text.

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17Business Case Studies

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18TIME 10 Questions or Interviews Feature

Also super to practice interviewing, questioning styles and responses to various types of questions in English.

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19Hiow to chop and edit YouTube videos easily

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20Carl Dowse's Scoop It page

If you want to get the latest information about tools or websites for Business English Teaching - Carl's the guy.

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21Financial Buzz Words and Terms

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22For money and finance questions: Howstuffworks - Money

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23The Chartered Institute of Marketing

Everything you need to get a grips in the world of marketing.

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24US Tax Glossary

The US is different than European financial terms and in tax law. This may help to answer those fuzzy questions.

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25Economist's Style Guide

If you need help your style of writing, this website is the right place to be.