A basic Business English course is likely to include many of the following skills: writing letters and emails; writing reports; reading reports and business-related articles; negotiating; telephoning and conference calls; talking about facts, figures, graphs, diagrams, etc; participating in meetings and video conferences; making presentations; using social English – meeting and greeting, small talk, dinner-table conversation and is also likely to include an introduction to how business works: business terms and expressions; negotiation; sales and marketing; finance; projects; business travel; working with people.