"The companion website offers an abundance of additional material; Electronic Workbook with interactive practice exercises to consolidate vocabulary, grammar, reading and skills; - Self-assessment tests for each unit; Tailor-made videos with interactive exercises; The complete Course Book listening material as MP3 downloads." (Book Cover).

U1 Career development and assessments — Focus: Discussing different aspects of career development — Functions of appraisal meetings and performance reviews — Texts Reading: Giving employees feedback — Listening: Developing your career Ethics — Diversity — Role-play Role-play: When the going gets tough — Business and Academic Skills — Appraisals: Conducting an appraisal meeting — Applying active listening tools Company Case — Country Case Managing workplace diversity — Self Study (selection) Present perfect: passive voice — Grammar Corporate language — Vocabulary Successful appraisal meetings — Skills — Video 1 Reviewing performance -- U2 The greening of business -- Focus: Understanding the role of environmental issues for business — Measuring a business’s environmental footprint -- Texts -- Listening: The challenge for industry -- Reading: Tracing your environmental footprint -- Ethics — Diversity — Role-play -- Diversity: What’s the environment worth? -- Role-play: The right kind of packaging -- Business and Academic Skills -- Persuasive writing: Writing a company memo -- Persuasive speaking: Monroe’s Sequence -- Company Case | Country Case -- Making hospitality green -- Self Study (selection) -- Environmental terms — Vocabulary -- Strengthening contrasts — Skills -- Adding weight and formality: inversion — Grammar -- U3 Financial reporting -- Focus: Talking about international financial reporting standards -- Texts -- Listening: making investment decisions -- Reading: A global rule book -- Ethics — Diversity — Role-play -- Ethics: Making a dog a duck -- Business and Academic Skills -- Press releases: Function and form — Writing headlines — Sequencing ideas effectively — Writing a press release -- Company Case — Country Case -- Finding a niche -- Self Study (selection) -- Accounting terms — Vocabulary -- Contrasting and sequencing ideas— Skills -- Prepositional clauses — Grammar -- U4 Research and development -- Focus: Discussing the importance of R&D as a business strategy and as a factor in a country’s economic development -- Texts -- Reading: The power of research -- Listening: Innovations in the car industry -- Ethics — Diversity — Role-play -- Role-play: Stimulating innovation -- Business and Academic Skills -- Blogging: Using blogging as a corporate communication tool — Writing a corporate blog -- Company Case — Country Case -- The stuttering R&D engine -- Self Study (selection) -- Conditionals — Grammar -- Corpspeak — Vocabulary -- The challenges of corporate blogging — Skills -- U5 Intelligent marketing -- Focus: Looking at the history of marketing — Understanding new trends in marketing -- Texts -- Reading: Marketing 3.0 -- Listening: A new consumer group -- Ethics — Diversity — Role-play -- Discussion: Is image everything? -- Business and Academic Skills -- Presentations: Being clear and convincing — Using rhetorical devices — Pitching for a new product -- Company Case — Country Case -- Marketing good deeds -- Self Study (selection) -- Rhetorical devices: the power of three — Skills -- Time markers and tenses — Grammar -- The silver dollar — Vocabulary -- Video 2: Presenting the idea -- U6 The future of work -- Focus: Talking about the changing world of work — Comparing different types of employment -- Texts -- Reading: The work of tomorrow -- Listening: The future of unions -- Ethics — Diversity — Role-play -- Role-play: The end of the steady job? -- Business and Academic Skills -- Business reports: Presenting the facts — Expressing reference — Using formal language -- Company Case — Country Case -- Equal rights for all? -- Self Study (selection) -- Corporate social responsibility — Vocabulary -- Future and time clauses — Grammar -- The language of reports — Skills -- U7 Mergers and Acquisitions -- Focus: Understanding the language of mergers and acquisitions — Talking about different forms of mergers and acquisitions -- Texts -- Reading: A perfect match -- Listening: A family affair -- Ethics — Diversity — Role-play -- Role-play: Getting off the ground together -- Business and Academic Skills -- Managing change: Understanding and dealing with staff reactions — Selling change — Addressing concerns -- Company Case — Country Case -- The beauty and the beast -- Self Study (selection) -- Reporting rumours: passive voice — Grammar -- Change management — Vocabulary -- Expressing concerns and giving assurances — Skills -- Video 3: Managing Change -- U8 Markets -- Focus: Talking about types of markets — Understanding market mechanisms -- Texts -- Reading: Too much of a good thing -- Listening: When the bubble bursts -- Ethics — Diversity — Role-play -- Ethics: “A Hippocratic Oath for Managers” -- Business and Academic Skills -- Term papers: Finding a topic — Developing a paragraph — Creating cohesion when writing paragraphs -- Company Case — Country Case -- Tax or cap? -- Self Study (selection) -- Market terms — Vocabulary -- Thesis statements — Skills -- Sentence connectors — Grammar -- U9 Demographic trends -- Focus: Describing demographic trends — Discussing measures for dealing with demographic change — Talking about cause and effect -- Texts -- Listening: Population matters -- Reading: The challenges ahead -- Ethics — Diversity — Role-play -- Discussion: The demographic time bomb -- Business and Academic Skills -- Presenting graphs: Helping your audience follow — Talking about change — Making figures meaningful -- Company Case — Country Case -- Setting up a health care system -- Self Study (selection) -- The welfare state — Vocabulary -- Determiners — Grammar -- Note-taking — Skills -- U10 Supply chain management -- Focus: Using the language of logistics and supply chain management — Talking about the stages of the supply chain -- Texts -- Reading: Onstream: a supply chain case study -- Listening: Responsible sourcing -- Ethics — Diversity — Role-play -- Role-play: Keeping your eye on the ball -- Business and Academic Skills -- Negotiating: Preparation — Making a deal -- Company Case — Country Case -- Toying with supply chains -- Self Study (selection) -- Key terms in logistics — Vocabulary -- Negotiating tactics — Skills -- Verb-noun-noun-combinations — Grammar -- Video 4: Negotiating the way forward -- U11 Risk management -- Focus: Discussing the importance of risk management — Talking about different types of risk -- Texts -- Reading: Managing risk -- Listening: A chief risk officer speaks -- Ethics — Diversity — Role-play -- Diversity: Avoiding uncertainty -- Business and Academic Skills -- Making a public statement: Informing the public -- Finding the right words -- Getting it right -- Company Case — Country Case -- Growing a chocolate brand in China -- Self Study (selection) -- Paraphrasing in public statements — Grammar -- Modal verbs: degrees of certainty and uncertainty — Skills -- Minimizing risk — Vocabulary -- U12 Intellectual property -- Focus: Distinguishing between different intellectual property rights — Understanding legal language -- Texts -- Listening: Protecting trademarks -- Reading: The battle against internet piracy -- Ethics — Diversity — Role-play -- Diversity: A cultural issue? -- Business and Academic Skills -- Organizing arguments -- Softening statements -- Making an opening statement -- Company Case — Country Case -- Fair share? -- Self Study (selection) -- Different types of trademark — Vocabulary -- Debating: supporting an argument — Skills -- The functions of qualifiers — Grammar

"Career Express Business English C1 is the second part of a two-level multimedia course, for students on a Business English language course at university level. It offers a wealth of material and enables you to learn the communication skills you need to be successful in the globalized world of business. Reading: The texts focus on the most interesting topics from the world of business. They provide the springboard for a discussion of contemporary business issues. — Listening: Realistic conversations, presentations and lectures expose you to a variety of native and non-native speaker accents and help you to develop core listening comprehension skills. — Business Skills: This section introduces you to the skills most needed in business, such as taking part in meetings, using diplomacy at work, describing charts and presenting products. — Discussion and Role-Play: These features give you the opportunity to pick up on issues raised in the reading and listening sections, and to practise functional language. — Company Case: These task-based case studies have been inspired by real business scenarios. They require you to work in teams, find strategic solutions to real-life problems and present them to the class.

Business English university students (CEFR: C1)