Trappe, Tonya <br/><br/>
Intelligent Business :  Upper-Intermediate Business English / 
Tonya Trappe and Graham Tullis. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Harlow :  Pearson Education,  2006. 
 - 176 p. :  col. ill. ;  28 cm.  + 1 Teacher's Guide (31 p.) & 2 CDs. 
 - Intelligent Business .
<br/><br/> The audio CDs and the Style Guide are enclosed with the coursebook. 
<br/><br/>Includes glossary, glossary test, grammar reference, and audioscripts. 
<br/><br/>''Are your students new to the business world? Do they need to learn about business setting as well as English to help express themselves at work? Then start with the Coursebook. Topic-based, with accessible introduction to key concepts in today's business world help students learn about key concepts whilst building their English skills. Informative and up-to-date authentic material from the Economist makes the content authentic and relevant.  Intelligent Business is fully benchmarked alongside the Cambridge BEC exam suite and CEF for those looking to take the high-stakes exams'' TABLE OF CONTENTS: Unit 1: Alliances  Company bosses on the prowl  Reading: Spring in their steps  Language: Review of tenses<br/>  Vocabulary: Definitions / Metaphors<br/>  Career skills: Building relationships / Working relationships  Dilemma & Decision: Breaking the ice Unit 2: Projects  Mission to accomplish<br/>  Reading: Up, up and away  Language: Articles  Vocabulary: Synonyms / Problems / Expressions with take / Projects  Career skills: Setting Goals / Respecting deadlines  Dilemma & Decision: Test crisis Unit 3: Teamworking  The stuff teams are made of  Reading: Think before you meet  Language: Modal forms  Vocabulary: Collocations / Multi-part verbs  Career skills: Team building / Exchanging information<br/>  Dilemma & Decision: Leading the team Review 1 Unit 4: Information  The real-time economy  Reading: How about now?  Language: Question forms  Vocabulary: Synonyms  Career skills: Questioning techniques / Asking appropriate questions  Dilemma & Decision: Spying on staff Unit 5: Technology  The pace of change  Reading: The march of the mobiles  Language: Relative clauses  Vocabulary: Definitions / Compound nouns  Career skills: Briefing / Assigning tasks  Dilemma & Decision: Turning ideas into reality Unit 6: Advertising<br/>  The power of persuasion  Reading: The harder hard sell<br/>  Language: Gerunds and infinitives  Vocabulary: Definitions / Collocations  Career skills: Storytelling / Personal narratives  Dilemma & Decision: Danger zone Review 2<br/> Unit 7: Law<br/>  In the name of the law  Reading: The people vs the USA  Language: The passive<br/>  Vocabulary: Definitions / Synonyms / Words groups / Collocations  Career skills: Negotiating / Bargaining  Dilemma & Decision: Beauty and business Unit 8: Brands  Keeping it exclusive  Reading: Gucci  Language: Adjectives and adverbs  Vocabulary: Synonyms / Verb-prepositions combinations  Career skills: Dealing with people at work / Interpersonal relationships<br/>  Dilemma & Decision: The two faces of Burberry Unit 9: Investment  The rewards of risk  Reading: Freud, folly and finance  Language: Emphasis  Vocabulary: Definitions / Prefixes<br/>  Career skills: Prioritising / Status and society  Dilemma & Decision: Your money or your reputation? Review 3<br/> Unit 10: Energy<br/>  What if...  Reading: Fossil fuel dependency  Language: Conditionals<br/>  Vocabulary: Negative prefixes / Collocations  Career skills: Problem-solving / Approaches to problems  Dilemma & Decision: The power of money Unit 11: Going public  Searching for shareholders<br/>  Reading: Page and Brin's daring IPO  Language: Future forms  Language: Future forms  Career skills: Making a presentation / Presentation styles  Dilemma & Decision: Which way to Wall Street?<br/> Unit 12: Competition  Winner takes all<br/>  Reading: Crunch time for Apple  Language: Time clauses  Vocabulary: Expressions with have / Compound nouns  Career skills: Handling conflict / How much confrontation? Review 4 Unit 13: Banking  Money matters<br/>  Reading: A path to helping the poor<br/>  Language: Reference words<br/>  Vocabulary: Expressions with make / Collocations  Career skills: Persuading / Exerting influence<br/>  Dilemma & Decision: Reliable research?<br/> Unit 14: Training<br/>  Practice makes perfect  Reading: A leadership lesson in Shakespeare  Language: Clauses and sentence construction  Vocabulary: Word groups / Verb-preposition combinations<br/>  Career skills: Motivating / Providing incentives  Dilemma & Decision: Allocating the training budget Unit 15: Consulting  The advice business  Reading: Global professional-service firms  Language: Reported speech<br/>  Vocabulary: Uses of like / Word building  Career skills: Reporting / Reacting to change  Dilemma & Decision: Consultant with a conscience  Review  Pairwork<br/> Glossary<br/> Glossary test Grammar reference<br/> Audioscripts 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781408256015 (Coursebook) 058284696X (Skills Book) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English language--Business english--Problems, exercises, etc.<br/>English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.<br/>Business--Terminology.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>B2-C1 (CEFR). Upper-Intermediate.