English for Business Studies is a skills-based course designed specifically for students of business who are about to enter English-medium tertiary level studies. It provides carefully graded practice and progression in the key academic skills that all students need, such as listening to lectures and speaking in seminars. it also equips students with the specialist business language they need to participate successfully within a business studies faculty. Extensive listening exercises come from business studies lectures, and all reading texts are taken from the same field of study. There is also a focus throughout on the key business vocabulary that students will need. Listening: how to understand and take effective notes on extended lectures, including how to follow the argument and identify the speaker's point of view.
Speaking: how to participate effectively in a variety of realistic situations, from seminars to presentations, including how to develop an argument and use stance markers.
Reading: how to understand a wide range of texts, from academic textbooks to Internet articles, including how to analyze complex sentences and identify such things as the writer's stance. Writing: how to produce coherent and well-structured assignments, including such skills as paraphrasing and the use of the appropriate academic phrases.
Vocabulary: a wide range of activities to develop students' knowledge and use of key vocabulary, both in the field of management and of academic study in general.
Vocabulary and Skills banks: a reference source to provide students with revision of the key words and phrases and skills presented in each unit.
Full transcripts of all listening exercises.

The Garnet English for Specific Academic Purposes series covers a range of academic subjects. All titles present the same skills and vocabulary points. Teachers can therefore deal with a range of ESAP courses at the same time, knowing that each subject title will focus on the same key skills and follow the same structure." (Book Cover)

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Unit 1 THE BUSINESS OF BUSINESS (Listening - Speaking)
Topics: types of business - the history of business
Vocabulary focus: words from general English with a special meaning in business - prefixes and suffixes
SKILLS FOCUS
Listening: preparing for a lecture - predicting lecture content from the introduction - understanding lecture organization - choosing an appropriate form of notes - making lecture notes
Speaking: speaking from notes

Unit 2 THE ORGANIZATION OF WORK (Reading - Writing)
Topics: how organizations are structured (hierarchies, teams, etc.) - leadership and teams
Vocabulary focus: English-English dictionaries: headwords - definitions - parts of speech - phonemes - stress markers - countable/uncountable - transitive/intransitive
SKILLS FOCUS
Reading: using research questions to focus on relevant information in a text - using topic sentences to get an overview of the text
Writing: writing topic sentences - summarizing a text

Unit 3 GETTING THE WORK DONE (Listening - Speaking)
Topics: productivity - theories of motivation - Management by Objectives
Vocabulary focus: stress patterns in multi-syllable words - prefixes
SKILLS FOCUS
Listening: preparing for a lecture - predicting lecture content - making lecture notes - using different information sources
Speaking: reporting research findings - formulating questions

Unit 4 THE WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY (Reading - Writing)
Topics: computers for research - technological change
Vocabulary focus: computer jargon - abbreviations and acronyms - discourse and stance markers - verb and noun suffixes
SKILLS FOCUS
Reading: identifying topic development within a paragraph - using the Internet effectively - evaluating Internet search results
Writing: reporting research findings

Unit 5 PEOPLE AND MARKETS (Listening and Speaking)
Topics: definition of marketing - importance of marketing - types of market - market research
Vocabulary focus: word sets: synonyms, antonyms, etc. - the language of trends - common lecture language
SKILLS FOCUS
Listening: understanding 'signpost language' in lectures - using symbols and abbreviations in note-taking
Speaking: making effective contributions to a seminar

Unit 6 PRODUCTS AND STRATEGIES (Reading - Writing)
Topics: the role of the product - product life cycles - product portfolios
Vocabulary focus: synonyms, replacement subjects, etc. for sentence-level paraphrasing
SKILLS FOCUS
Reading: locating key information in complex sentences
Writing: reporting findings from other sources: paraphrasing - writing complex sentences

Unit 7 OPERATIONS: PRODUCING THE GOODS (Listening - Speaking)
Topics: the production process: input/transformation/output
Vocabulary focus: compound nouns - fixed phrases from business studies - fixed phrases from academic English - common lecture language
SKILLS FOCUS
Listening: understanding speaker emphasis
Speaking: asking for clarification - responding to queries and requests for clarification

Unit 8 OPERATIONS: EFFICIENCY, COSTS AND QUALITY (Reading - Writing)
Topics: efficiency in operations management - Japanese management practices: 'lean' production techniques, TQM
Vocabulary focus: synonyms - nouns from verbs - definitions - common 'direction' verbs in essay titles (discuss, analyse, evaluate, etc.)

SKILLS FOCUS
Reading: understanding dependent clauses with passives
Writing: paraphrasing - expanding notes into complex sentences - recognizing different essay types/structures: descriptive - analytical - comparison/evaluation - argument - writing essay plans - writing essays

Unit 9 MANAGING FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS (Listening - Speaking)
Topics: accounting: management accounting - financial accounting ; documentation: balance sheet - profit and loss account ; cash flow statement
Vocabulary focus: fixed phrases from finance - fixed phrases from academic English
SKILLS FOCUS
Listening: using the Cornell note-taking system - recognizing digressions in lectures
Speaking: making effective contributions to a seminar - referring to other people's ideas in a seminar

Unit 10 FUNDING COMPANY ACTIVITIES (Reading - Writing)
Topics: sources of business finance - short- and long-term finance - start-up and expansion finance
Vocabulary focus: 'neutral' and 'marked' words - fixed phrases from finance - fixed phrases from academic English
SKILLS FOCUS
Reading: recognizing the writer's stance and level of confidence or tentativeness - inferring implicit ideas
Writing: writing situation-problem-solution-evaluation essays - using direct quotations - compiling a bibliography/reference list

Unit 11 EXTERNAL INFLUENCES (Listening - Speaking) Topics: external influences on businesses: national - international - political - economic ; environmental issues
Vocabulary focus: words/phrases used to link ideas (moreover, as a result, etc.) - stress patterns in noun phrases and compounds - fixed phrases from academic English - words/phrases related to environmental issues
SKILLS FOCUS
Listening: recognizing the speaker's stance - writing up notes in full
Speaking: building an argument in a seminar - agreeing/disagreeing

Unit 12 STRATEGY AND CHANGE (Reading - Writing)
Topics: company performance: SWOT analysis - management of change - case study: responding to external factors
Vocabulary focus: verbs used to introduce ideas from other sources (X contends/suggests/asserts that...) - linking words/phrases conveying contrast (whereas), result (consequently), reasons (due to), etc. - words for quantities (a significant minority)
SKILLS FOCUS
Reading: understanding how ideas in a text are linked
Writing: deciding whether to use direct quotation or paraphrase - incorporating quotations - writing research reports - writing effective introductions/conclusions

Upper intermediate to proficiency ; IELTS 5.0 - 7.5+ ; CEF B2 - C2.

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