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Yes, English is just English, but none of our students are ever going to learn the whole of English. That means that for every student their priorities are different, and one very wide ranging generalisation you can make is that some students mainly need English for business (although many of them actually need English for Health and Safety, etc, as is the topic of a book I've just received). There is a whole ESP (English for Specific Purposes) approach to teaching which is very different from the CELTA approach, and part of it is working out what their specific needs are and planning a course around it.

If you are genuinely interested, may I suggest a qualification in the topic:
http://www.tefl.net/tefl-courses/faq-te ... nglish.htm

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Thanks to Alex for given this informative link, thanks to mrubs also for asking this question.
I was confused and i was looking for this solutions.

Business English can be a pain if people expect you to help them with their jargon, which is often too technical.

Further to the previous answer, essentially the vocabulary and functions involved in business are different (perhaps more narrowly defined) than for general English. Ultimately though the students do still need general English. I did see a joke where someone was teaching the Present Perfect when a student complained it was a business English class and so they changed the example from "I have lived" to "I have worked".

Great ideas here, thank you so much for posting.