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This course develops business and legal English vocabulary, legal reading skills and listening.  The course covers the three most important kinds of business structures: sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations.  There are several lectures, and there are also many activities so you can really practise and improve your business and legal English quickly.  These include:

  • Vocabulary development quizzes and tests.  We identify the key words for this topic and practice them many times in different legal situations.  This is a fast way to increase your understanding of business and legal vocabulary.

  • Listening to lawyers give advice to clients about their business and legal needs.  With comprehension exercises to assist in your understanding of these conversations and how legal English is used.

  • Listening to clients discuss their business problems.  With comprehension exercises to focus your attention on the key ideas.

  • Reading contracts related to the three business types.  With activities to help you understand these legal documents.

  • Links to online apps like Quizlet where you can further practice the vocabulary in this course.

  • This course will also be very useful for anyone preparing for English exams such as IELTS or TOEFL as it focuses on developing important academic vocabulary, listening and reading skills that are vital to score well in these tests.

Join "English for Business and Law - Legal Business Structures".  It's the fastest way to improve your business and legal English.  And look out for other business and legal English courses by Engliscape, including Contract Law and Intellectual Property Law.

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Essential legal and business language to improve English skills in the workplace or in university study.

Key English vocabulary that business and law students must know.

Reading skills developed through exercises based on real legal texts.

Listening skills improved by responding to dialogs between lawyers and clients.

Yêu cầu

  • Nothing! Designed for intermediate English language learners, but no specific prerequisites.

Nội dung khoá học

5 sections

Introduction and Key Vocabulary

4 lectures
Introduction: Commercial Law - Types of Businesses
02:53
Legal Vocabulary - Part One
08:59
Vocabulary Resources - Links
00:09
Vocabulary Review Activity
00:02

Sole Proprietorship

9 lectures
Introduction: What is a sole proprietorship?
03:14
Listening: A lawyer's advice to a client.
02:24
Listening Resources - A lawyer's advice to a client
00:12
Reading: A consulting agreement for a sole proprietor.
11:11
Reading Resources: A consulting agreement
00:09
Listening: The advantages and disadvantages of sole proprietorships.
06:46
Listening Resources: The advantages and disadvantages of a sole proprietorship
00:09
Questions to think about...
02:10
A summary of the main ideas in this section - Sole Proprietorships
02:12

Partnerships

12 lectures
Introduction: What is a partnership?
03:56
Listening: A lawyer's advice to a client
05:53
Listening Resources: A lawyer's advice to a client
00:08
Listening: The client's questions about the partnership agreement?
07:19
Listening Resources: A client's questions about partnerships
00:07
Legal Vocabulary - Part Two
06:51
Vocabulary Links
00:04
Reading: A general partnership agreement.
15:38
Reading Resources: A general partnership agreement
00:08
The answers for the general partnership agreement exercises.
06:25
Contract Grammar - Practice Exercise
00:19
Summary: Advantages and disadvantages of partnerships
02:42

Corporations

5 lectures
Introduction: What is a corporation?
02:21
Listening: A lawyer advises her client about forming a corporation.
06:48
Listening Resources: A lawyer advises her client about corporations
00:12
Advantages and Disadvantages of Corporations
03:54
Vocabulary Review
20 questions

Summary

4 lectures
Listening: Choose the best type of business for your clients.
09:16
Final Practice Test - Commercial Law: Types of Businesses
30 questions
Congratulations!
01:56
Before you go .... Please leave some feedback.
00:01

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