SMALL TALK; the FORD method - Business Communication class
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SMALL TALK; the FORD method - Business Communication class

B1IntermediateOctober 6, 202626 min
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Send us Fan Mail Small talk in English with your colleagues, clients, and customers is important for building the professional connections that grow your career. The FORD method is an English speaking framework that gives you the questions that you need to sound more natural and native when speaking English and to have conversations that make people want to work with you. Also, if you're studying for the IELTS, TOEFL, DET or Cambridge English tests and exams then you might find some of the vocabulary in this episode really useful. This p...

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Welcome back to the Breakout Business English podcast. My name is Chris. I'm a business English and communication coach, and I've personally worked with over 1,000 international professionals, likely just like you, to improve the way that they communicate at work in English. Thank you so much for listening and for your time. I know how valuable it is and today

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We're discussing small talk again Specifically something called the Ford Framework that's f o r d the Ford framework

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now a couple of weeks ago, I Recorded an episode all about small talk in In that podcast, we explored the ARE method, or the ARE framework, which was a three-part structure that we could use to guide how we speak when we're in small talk situations.

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