Includes review sections, additional material and recordings transcripts.

Includes a glossary.

"The Student's Book contains 48 modules in eight units. Each unit deals with a key sector of activity in the business world. There are six different types of modules:
About Business: These modules contain information and language for the topic area of each unit.
Vocabulary: These modules build on the important words and phrases associated with the topic and provide thorough practice.
Grammar: These modules help students practise the grammar in a communicative and meaningful way, in business situations relating to the unit topic.
Speaking: These modules develop understanding and speaking skills in typical business situations. In these modules, students build up a checklist of useful expressions to use in the speaking activities.
Writing: These modules provide practice for the most important types of document student will need to write at work. They analyse a model text, focus on key language and use both as a basis for doing a writing output activity.
Case Study: The case studies provide an opportunity to apply all the language, skills and ideas students have worked on in the unit. They present authentic problem-solving situations similar to those students will meet in business." (Publisher's Website)

CONTENTS

Business fundamentals - Business organization - Economic cycles - Breakeven analysis - CVs and recruitment

1. BUILDING A CAREER - About business

1.1 The education business
READING: What price a degree? - Discussion: Your degree – who should pay?

VOCABULARY
1.2 Education and career - Collocations relating to education and funding - Action verbs for CVs - Verbs relating to career stages

GRAMMAR
1.3 Tense review - Past, present and future tenses - Time markers

SPEAKING 1.4 Interviewing: giving reasons - Roleplay: a job interview

WRITING 1.5 Cover letters - Analysis: paragraph function - Language focus: dynamic sentences

CASE STUDY 1.6 Mangalia Business School - Discussion, reading, listening and presentation relating to a Romanian business school

2. INFORMATION - About business

2.1 IT solutions
READING: The IT fallacy - Discussion: Attitudes to IT

VOCABULARY 2.2 Information systems and communication - Comparisons - Verbs relating to IT - Expressions for giving information

GRAMMAR
2.3 Comparing solutions and getting help - Comparatives and superlatives -
Polite requests and responses

SPEAKING
2.4 Telephoning - Expressions for telephoning - Roleplay: telephone situations

WRITING
2.5 Memos - Analysis: paragraph order - Language focus: register

CASE STUDY
2.6 Meteor bank - Discussion, reading and listening relating to a Nigerian bank

Reviews 1 and 2

3. QUALITY - About business

3.1 What quality means
READING: Two kinds of quality - Discussion: “Taken-for-granted” quality, “enchanting” quality and planned obsolescence

VOCABULARY
3.2 Quality and standards - Word-building - Adjectives relating to quality - Collocations relating to quality standards

GRAMMAR
3.3 Passive structures and have something done - be + past participle (past, present and future tenses); modals - have something done

SPEAKING
3.4 Delivering presentations Expressions for signposting - Presentation: presenting a product

WRITING
3.5 Emailing: quality problems - Analysis: level of formality - Language focus: formal and informal expressions

CASE STUDY
3.6 Zaluski Strawberries - Discussion, reading, listening and presentation relating to a Polish strawberry co-operative

4. FEEDBACK - About business

4.1 The project team
READING: Smells like team spirit - Discussion: Project management and team building

VOCABULARY
4.2 Managing people and projects - Character descriptions - Adjectives for character types - Colloquial expressions - Project management collocations

GRAMMAR
4.3 Regrets, speculation and habits - modals + have + past participle - Third conditional - used to; be/get used to

SPEAKING 4.4 Coaching - Expressions for coaching - Roleplay: an interview between a manager and an employee

WRITING
4.5 Reports - Analysis: paragraph function - Language focus: linking words and expressions

CASE STUDY
4.6 Trident Overseas - Discussion, reading, listening and roleplay relating to a British oil company operating in Africa

Reviews 3 and 4

5. SELLING MORE - About business

5.1 Social media marketing
READING: Social marketing doesn’t have to suck - Discussion: Attitudes to social media marketing

VOCABULARY
5.2 The marketing mix - The four Ps, the four Cs, mix coherency and mix dynamics - Marketing techniques - Marketing collocations

GRAMMAR
5.3 Questions for persuading - Question tags - Negative questions

SPEAKING
5.4 Dealing with objections - Expressions for dealing with objections - Negotiation: selling a study trip

WRITING
5.5 Mailshots and sales letters - Analysis: paragraph function an content - Language focus: the tripling technique

CASE STUDY
5.6 Backchat Communications - Discussion, reading, listening and negotiation relating to a South Korean mobile phone supplier

6. NEW BUSINESS - About business

6.1 Developing a business
READING: Five simple rules for building a blockbuster brand - Discussion: Developing an idea for a new business

VOCABULARY
6.2 Funding a start-up - Types of funding - Vocabulary related to funding - Steps in a funding application - Phrasal verbs

GRAMMAR
6.3 Future continuous and future perfect - will be doing - will have done - will have been doing

SPEAKING
6.4 Presentations: taking questions - Expressions for commenting on questions - Presentation: a 60-second talk

WRITING
6.5 A company profile - Analysis: structure guidelines - Language focus: impact collocations

CASE STUDY
6.6 Angels of demons? - Discussion, reading, listening and presentation relating to pitching an idea to business angels

Reviews 5 and 6

7. FINANCIAL CONTROL - About business

7.1 Accountants
READING: Why it’s trendy to be a future accountant - _Accountancy as a career choice

VOCABULARY
7.2 Financial documents and regulation - Vocabulary relating to financial documents - Accounting terms - Verbs for enabling and preventing

GRAMMAR
7.3 Cause and effect, ability, articles - owing to, stemmed from, led to, resulted in, etc. - can, could, was/were able to, managed to, succeeded in, etc.

SPEAKING
7.4 Communicating in meetings - Expressions for communicating in meetings - Roleplay: a meeting

WRITING
7.5 Minutes - Analysis: presentation and content - Language focus: action verbs

CASE STUDY
7.6 Car-Glazer - Discussion, reading and listening relating to a Czech glass replacement company

8. FAIR TRADE - About business

8.1 Fair trade or free trade?
READING: Why fair trade is a bad deal - Discussion: Fair trade vs. free trade

VOCABULARY
8.2 Contracts and corporate ethics - Collocations with contract - Expressions used in a contract - Types of unethical behaviour

GRAMMAR 8.3 Obligation and permission, inversion - can, can’t, must, mustn’t, have to, don’t have to, (not) be allowed to - Using inversion in legal documents

SPEAKING
8.4 Negotiating a compromise - Expressions for negotiating a compromise - Negotiation: trading commodities

WRITING
8.5 Assertive writing - Analysis: adopting the correct tone - Language focus: assertive expressions

CASE STUDY
8.6 Green Hills Coffee - Discussion, reading, listening and negotiation relating to a coffee producer and a Guatemalan supplier

Reviews 7 and 8

Additional material

Grammar and practice

Recordings

Glossary

Upper intermediate students (CEFR: B2)