Legal English Program (for business and property lawyers).

Teaching objectives legal english program (business and property law).

• To improve pronunciation and fluency.

1. Using phonetic alphabet.
2. Correction by imitation.
3. Looking at business/property law videos to improve listening skills.
4. Discussing UK property and business law, cases and comparing them with similar Spanish cases.

• To examine legal letter writing and foster negotiation skills.

1. To look at the language of legal letter writing/emails and the formal expressions required.
2. To examine the key aspects of negotiating eg…never making or accepting the first offer, being clear as to what one wants from a negotiation and never revealing one”s bottom line to the other party because it might impede future deal agreements.
3. To watch videos on negotiation to deepen the student”s understanding of the subject and to improve listening skills.

• To look at various aspects of business and contract law procedure to increase vocabulary, legal english phrasal verbs and prepositions.

1. To learn new vocabulary appropriate to business/contract law, which can be used in day to day legal English usage, eg…sole-trader, county court/high court, nominal share price, implied contracts, articles of association etc….
2. To look at live examples of business situations, giving legal advice as appropriate, using correct legal English phrases.
3. To do preposition based gap-fill exercises, in a business law context, to become more comfortable around these.