Day 3 Global Teachers' Festival 2026 | Evan Frendo

In this essential session, Evan Frendo—a leading figure in Business English worldwide—explores how to prepare university learners for the real-world workplace, where communication is messy, contextual, intercultural and focused on getting things done.

Drawing on over 30 years of corporate language‑training experience, Evan explains why academic English is not enough. The English students need at work is practical, adaptive, and strategic, not textbook‑perfect. Through real examples from multinational companies, he demonstrates how professionals actually communicate—using simplification, clarification, redundancy, accommodation, and multilingual resources.

📌 What you’ll learn in this webinar:
• How English is really used in global workplaces (BELF principles)
• Why grammatical accuracy matters less than effective outcomes
• Key communication strategies: accommodation, repetition, negotiation of meaning
• The role of intercultural competence in professional communication
• Understanding communities of practice and “company speak”
• How to prepare students for meetings, presentations, teamwork and informal talk
• Why companies now expect learning “on the job,” not traditional courses
• How AI tools are reshaping workplace communication
• Practical classroom ideas: TBL, critical incidents, shadowing, storytelling

If you teach university learners or want to equip students with future‑ready English skills, this session will transform your approach to Business English and professional communication.