Prices
The complete course price is £506 plus 20% VAT if you will be taking this course while in the UK, or your employer is a UK-based company.
If you have completed an online course with IH OTTI in the previous 12 months, there is a loyalty discount of 10% and the price for teachers working in an IH school is £430. Just let us know on the application form if you would like to claim these discounts.
Please note that discounts cannot be used in conjunction with each other.
Who is this course designed for
If you’re a teacher and you’d like to start teaching Business English, this course is for you. You may be a newly qualified teacher or someone with experience, this course will give you all the key skills for teaching Business English.
This course is also for an ESL teacher who…
- wants to expand their professional skills and develop in the area of teaching Business English
- is finding it difficult to develop professionally in their location and wants to expand their English teaching skillset or open up a prospective career path
- has taught General English/ESP/EAP and would like to develop their skills in Business English;
- is already teaching Business English but wants to acquire new skills and find inspiration for their teaching
- is already teaching Business English but would like to have a formal qualification in this field
- wants to help their students with job-related presentations or other work
- works as a private tutor who wants to expand and start teaching Business English
- wants to improve their range of skills for employability
Entry requirements
To apply for this course, you should have some experience of teaching English. You do not need to have taught Business English previously.
Due to the project nature of the assessment, it is necessary to be teaching at the time of taking the course. This doesn’t need to be a business class, any General English adult class will be ok.
Please note that your level of English should be C1 or above.
Online applications close on the Monday before the course starts. But we sometimes have late availability, so please get in touch with the admissions team at [email protected], and we will see if there are any last-minute spaces.
Course objectives
This course will give you the required skills to get qualified in teaching Business English. It will give you the necessary teaching methodology and the knowledge you need in business background elements to help you become a successful teacher of Business English.
About the school
Do you want an online professional development course, no matter where you are in the world?
The IH Online Teacher Training Institute (OTTI) is the teacher training wing of International House World Organisation. We provide online professional development courses for EFL teachers around the world. We have courses for every stage of a teacher’s career, from soon after your initial qualification to DELTA level and management courses.
Learning online gives you the flexibility to set your own study hours and save money on travel and accommodation.
On our courses you can ‘attend’ whenever (and wherever!) is convenient for you. You don’t usually have to attend a live chat or webinar at a specific time, although sometimes there are live “meetups” so you have the chance to chat with your tutor and other classmates.
To help you there is ongoing support from your tutors in online forums and through individual feedback – and you’ll probably find your other course participants are really helpful as well. You are definitely not studying alone, and this tutor and peer support is what our trainees say they like most about our courses.
The IH Online Teacher Training Institute (OTTI) is the teacher training wing of International House World Organisation. We provide online professional development courses for EFL teachers around the world.
Learning online gives you the flexibility to set your own study hours and save money on travel and accommodation.
You can ‘attend’ whenever (and wherever!) is convenient for you. On our courses the material for each module is made available at the start of each module (usually at the weekend) and it is up to you to access the material and complete the tasks. Therefore, there is some self-discipline required. The more you put into the course in terms of your time spent researching, completing tasks, and taking part in the discussion forums, the more you will get out of it. You will of course have support from other course participants and your tutors in online forums and through individual feedback.
Most of our courses are asynchronous, but we also have some courses which are a mix of synchronous and asynchronous learning. These have a weekly live webinar and then a set of tasks to be done over a week.

