Product Description

Email English is a course for students of general or business English who need to write effective and convincing emails. It develops both language skills and confidence, as well as providing invaluable reference material.

Key features

- Systematic and structured approach to writing
The language practice covers a wide range of topics and provides a great variety of focused exercise types.
- Large number of awareness activities about style
Students deal with both formal and informal emails and learn to switch appropriately between the two mediums.
- Phrase bank
Consists of a list of phrases organized functionally, which students can refer to and copy from in order to construct more effective emails, whether in class or at work.
- Designed for self-study and classroom use
All exercises can be used by students working alone and in class.
Tasks for teachers to use in class to support the exercises in the book.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44442 in Books
• Published on: 2003-12-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

About the Author
Paul Emmerson works as a writer, teacher and teacher trainer in the field of business English. He has a strong connection with International House , London, where he teaches for part of every year and runs the LCCI Cert TEB training course overseas.
He is also the author of the Business Builder series and Business Grammar Builder.

Customer Reviews

Excellent for NON-NATIVE business students
This is an intermediate to upper intermediate level book for students of English, NOT native speakers. It is extremely good at it's job and I have even used it successfully with advanced level students as it uses language and grammar which is totally relevant to the genre of business English for non-natives.

I thoroughly recommend it for any teachers of ESL, although after going through the first, basic chapters, I normally let students choose which of the others are most relevant to them as they can be quite repetitive (not always a bad thing). The exercises are fairly standard (!) but used with a little imagination they can be spiced up and tailored to your individual teaching style. Answers in the back make it possible to be used effectively as a self-study book and there is also excellent online back-up material providing useful practice/homework tasks.

Not for what I was looking
I am a native English speaker. I am also quite educated and know how to write English to a high standard. Judging from what I read and hear around me every day, my grammar is significantly better than most.

What this book does not really give advice on, and what I really wanted, is not how to write, but how to write well. How one can persuade colleagues halfway around the world to work effectively on one's behalf? Most importantly, how one can avoid unintentionally offending others?

If on the other hand, you are a non-native speaker, then this is probably suitable for you, and I apologise to the book's author for my poor review.