Business fundamentals in English for school groups aged 12–19 — a 7-day course in Benalmádena, near Málaga, with a local business visit.
Why this course. This Business English course gives your school group seven days learning the real fundamentals of business — entrepreneurship, marketing, and finance — entirely in English, on the European Trainee Academy campus in Benalmádena, near Málaga. Your students don’t just practise vocabulary; they learn how a business actually works and use English to think, decide, and present like a team running one. Built for students curious about business and heading toward internships, university, or an international career.
What it covers. A project-based week — your students work in teams and build toward a final “marketing agency” project, with each day’s lesson feeding the work. Mornings move through the building blocks of business: a grammar refresher to build confidence, then entrepreneurship (what makes an entrepreneur, turning an idea into a business), marketing (the 4Ps, SWOT analysis, and the BCG matrix, with real-company cases like Apple and TikTok), business finance (revenue, costs and profit, and knowing your customers), and how to use AI as a business assistant — helpfully, without letting it think for you. Afternoons are guided trips, beach time, and group activities; mid-week the group visits a local business to see a professional environment in action, and an evening of economic strategy games turns the week’s thinking into a friendly team competition.
How it is run. Your school group — 15 to 32 students, ages 12 to 19 — travels with its own group leader. The course follows a set syllabus — no placement test; students stay together as one cohort. They sleep in the on-campus residence with full board, supervised by EUTA staff and your travelling leader. One leader place is free for every 15 students. The week closes Friday with the teams pitching their final advertisement, certificates, and a guided Málaga half-day.
Daily life in a Spanish coastal town — markets, beaches, Andalusian rhythm — turns the programme into context rather than a side trip.
A week abroad with the group builds the social confidence and self-reliance a classroom can’t — first café orders in another language, first navigating a new town as a team.
Mornings in class, afternoons using the language with hosts, shopkeepers, and trip guides — the gap between learning English and using it closes fast.
Vocabulary, grammar, and discourse practiced where they actually appear — ordering food, asking directions, presenting work, holding an opinion in a debate.
The formal-register language and conventions of meetings, emails, and presentations students will face in their first internships and jobs.
Real business thinking applied in English — entrepreneurship, marketing and finance worked through real-company cases (Apple, TikTok) and a team “marketing agency” project, plus a guided mid-week visit to a local business.
Whether you’re a school coordinator planning a group mobility or have a question about this programme — we’re here to help.
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EUTA’s training rooms sit inside Benalmádena International College — a gated international-school campus in Nueva Torrequebrada with security, controlled access, and EUTA staff on-site. Where you sleep depends on who you are.
School groups stay on the gated EUTA campus inside Benalmádena International College, where the training rooms, dining hall, and activity spaces all live. 24/7 reception and controlled access, with a dedicated EUTA coordinator on-site for the full week.
All levels are welcome. The course follows a set weekly plan and students stay together as one group — there’s no level test and no splitting by level. The lessons and the team project are built to work for mixed levels.
Your group leader travels with the students and stays with them all week — the first person to go to for anything they need. EUTA staff look after the on-campus residence, lessons, the local business visit, and trips. One leader place is free for every 15 students booked.
Students stay in the on-campus residence inside Benalmádena International College, our gated campus in Nueva Torrequebrada, near Málaga. Full board is included — breakfast, lunch, and dinner from the school kitchen, and we cover dietary needs when you tell us at booking. More on the accommodation page.
No. The Business English course is paid direct by the school out of its own budget — Erasmus+ funding cannot be applied to it. If your school is looking for an Erasmus+ funded option, see our Erasmus+ eligible school programmes or read the official Erasmus+ programme guidance.
Mid-week, the group visits a local business in person — the host changes from group to group. Students prepare questions beforehand, watch how the workplace runs, and write a short follow-up in English afterwards. EUTA staff go with them.
Use the enquire form with your rough dates, group size, and the students’ ages. We’ll confirm availability and send a draft invoice plus a learning agreement template for your school to look over before any deposit.
Yes. Business English is the vocabulary and situations of the working world — entrepreneurship, marketing, finance, and presentations — rather than everyday conversation. Students learn the words and phrases they’d actually use in a company, in English.
Over the week, students learn the fundamentals of business in English and work in teams toward a final “marketing agency” project — designing and pitching an advertisement. Along the way they cover entrepreneurship, the 4Ps of marketing, SWOT and the BCG matrix, business finance, and how to use AI as a tool.
Voices from students and group coordinators who’ve spent their week with us in Benalmádena.
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