Nine 90-minute live sessions delivered online via Zoom or Microsoft Teams. Each session follows a task-based methodology anchored in authentic materials: industry texts, shipping documents, podcast extracts, case studies, and role-play scenarios drawn from retail trading and maritime logistics. Every session includes a receptive skills anchor, structured grammar input, and a productive task in which participants apply new language directly to professional contexts.
Objective
Enable professionals in retail trading and maritime logistics to communicate confidently in English across operational, commercial, and cross-cultural business contexts.
Programme Overview
This programme develops the language skills professionals need to perform effectively in English-language retail trading and maritime logistics environments. It covers professional communication across the full supply chain — from shipping documents and port procedures to complaint handling, contract negotiation, and working with international partners.
Participants build the ability to use sector-specific vocabulary accurately, apply B2-level grammar in professional contexts, and communicate effectively across written and spoken formats throughout the trading and logistics lifecycle.
The programme combines 13.5 hours of live instruction across nine 90-minute online sessions with 10 hours of self-paced revision materials, giving participants structured practice between sessions and ensuring language retention across a three-week schedule.
GlobalU Business provides a structured industry-focused language programme designed to produce measurable communication outcomes in professional and commercial environments.
Programme Structure
The programme runs across nine live sessions delivered three times per week over three weeks, supported by self-paced revision materials totalling 10 hours.
Key Module 1: Live Session Delivery
Key Module 2: Self-Paced Revision Materials
Ten hours of structured revision content accessible between sessions. Materials are aligned lesson-by-lesson to reinforce vocabulary, grammar, and professional communication skills covered in the live programme. Participants engage with revision content before or after each session to consolidate learning and prepare for the following class.
Key Module 3: Grammar Progression Framework
A sequenced grammar curriculum covering nine core structures: present simple and adverbs of degree; passive voice; modal verbs for obligation and necessity; indirect questions and register; future forms for planning and scheduling; past perfect and Type 3 conditional; Type 2 conditional and hedging language; relative clauses and comparatives; and reported speech and narrative tenses. Each structure is introduced in a logistics or trade context and assessed formally in the end-of-course written test.
Key Module 4: Industry Vocabulary Programme
Sixty-three sector-specific terms across nine vocabulary sets covering port and trade geography, supply chain operations, shipping documents and compliance, professional correspondence, order management, problem-solving and complaints, contracts and negotiation, branding and retail strategy, and business culture. Vocabulary is introduced in context, practised in structured tasks, and assessed in the summative test.
Key Module 5: Professional Writing Tasks
Three structured written assignments across the programme: a process description using passive voice (Lesson 2); a professional correspondence task requiring two email drafts (Lesson 4); and a written incident report following a logistics complaint scenario (Lesson 6). All submissions are made via Google Docs with asynchronous teacher feedback returned between sessions.
Key Module 6: Blended Assessment Model
Performance is monitored continuously through observed productive tasks in Lessons 1–8 and formal written feedback on submitted work. The programme concludes with a 30-minute structured revision and a 60-minute written assessment covering vocabulary in context (18 marks), grammar (12 marks), reading comprehension (12 marks), and professional writing (8 marks). Pass mark: 35/50. Marked scripts returned with written feedback within five working days.
Key features
Business Outcomes
Professionals leave able to write B2-level emails, read shipping documents, handle complaints, and negotiate in English — applied directly to retail trading and logistics roles.
Is this right for you?
Designed for B2-level professionals in retail trading or maritime logistics who communicate in English with international suppliers, clients, or port and commercial partners.
Programme Impact
Participants complete with a formally assessed B2 qualification, marked test scripts, individual written feedback, and a vocabulary toolkit applicable to their daily professional roles.
One meeting to establish fit, confirm volumes, and agree wholesale pricing. No commitment required.
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