Financial English & Reporting
Master financial vocabulary, data analysis language, and reporting skills
Who it's for
Written for B2 (upper-intermediate) students who can discuss most topics and now need precision and range.
Meetings, emails, calls, negotiation and finance for students who use English at work. More Business English lesson plans
Skills it practises
- Speaking: discussion questionsevery lesson
- Vocabulary: a target word listevery lesson
- Reading: a text or news storyevery lesson
- Controlled practice: gap-fills, matching, sorting and moreevery lesson
- Role-play: a dialogue to act outevery lesson
- An answer framework to structure what they sayevery lesson
Lessons
- Understanding Financial StatementsGoal: brief your manager on a company's results in plain English — top line, bottom line, cash, and a one-sentence verdict they can repeat.1 hr 13 minFree
- Budgeting & Forecasting LanguageGoal: explain a budget overrun to your finance director without losing credibility — own the number, name the drivers, split one-offs from trends, and defend next year's request.1 hr 13 minOutline
- Describing Trends and DataGoal: walk a stakeholder through a chart in 60 seconds — headline first, the shape in precise trend language, the main driver, and an honestly hedged conclusion.1 hr 13 minOutline
- KPIs & Performance MetricsGoal: report your team's KPI results to leadership — headline score first, own the missed target with its driver, and recommend what happens to the targets next.1 hr 6 minOutline
- Investment & Risk LanguageGoal: recommend a financial decision — take a clear position, size the upside and the downside, and show the hedge that makes the risk acceptable.1 hr 13 minOutline
- Presenting Financial ResultsGoal: open a results presentation with a 60-second summary leadership remembers — verdict first, three numbers, the main driver, and the outlook.1 hr 13 minOutline
- Variance Analysis & ReportingGoal: explain why actual results differ from budget by walking your manager across the bridge — every step quantified, the root cause named, and an action at the end.1 hr 6 minOutline
- Financial Negotiations & TermsGoal: negotiate the financial terms of a deal — counter a price with a number and a reason, trade rather than give, widen the deal beyond price, and confirm the final numbers out loud.1 hr 20 minOutline
How to use it in a lesson
- Lessons run 66 to 80 minutes, with a timing on every stage, so you can see before you start what fits your slot.
- Start with "Understanding Financial Statements": its whole plan is on this site, stage by stage, with the target vocabulary, free to read and to teach from on any video call.
- For a shorter slot, skip a practice stage or cut the discussion short: the stages are a guide, not a script.
Teach Financial English & Reporting with your student
Lesson 1 of this course is free. A free account opens it in the interactive player, and the rest of the course is included with Starter. Teaching it live with your student in the Tuton classroom starts with a 7-day free trial.
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