English for Customer Service

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This course helps develop necessary language and cultural context for those working in or searching for a customer-facing role. Through dialogues and real-world scenarios, learners practice functional phrases and vocabulary related to a number of customer service roles, with an emphasis on the hotel and restaurant industries.

  • Courses for English Language Learners. The course is taught in English.

  • NRS Level (National Reporting System): High Beginner

  • BEST Plus® SPL (Student Performance Level): 3-4

  • Each unit is a collection of short lessons that are 3 minutes or fewer. Units usually take an hour to complete.


Unit 1: Defining and Recognizing Customer Service
Identify customer service components in simple, real-life scenarios. Recognize key terms related to customer service: provider, interaction, lasting relationship.

Unit 2: Customer Service Jobs and Industries
Name several jobs and industries where customer service is important. Label industries using job types. Express the job and industry of a person working in customer service, using a complete sentence.

Unit 3: Why and How Customer Service Benefits Us All
Listen to dialogues to hear examples of good/poor customer service in several scenarios.