Real life business content
¿ Authenticvideo content introduces unit topics, exposing students to real English and the sorts of issues they mayencounter in their careers.
¿ FinancialTimes articles provide reading practice to build on the topics discussed in thevideos, further exposing students to authentic English.
¿ Studentswork on case studies that allow them to practise their business andcommunication skills in realistic professional contexts.
Building communicative and business skills
¿ Thecourse builds two sets of skills - communication and practical business skills- which students practise together in the business workshop case studies.
¿ Practicalskills training includes negotiating, presenting, building relationships andsmall talk.
¿ Aninnovative video-based training programme helps build the communication skills,including supporting teamwork, listening actively, collaborating, solvingproblems, and influencing.
Building language skills
¿ Studentsacquire functional language and practise all the skills, including writing,grammar and pronunciation.
¿ Thetask-based approach incorporates presentation and practice, with a lot ofcommunicative pair and group tasks and projects.
¿ Thereare multiple opportunities for writing practice across all the lessons, with afull writing lesson in each unit.
Flexibility for teachers and learners
¿ Thecourse allows teachers to pick and choose their lessons to suit their students.While units are linked by theme, each lesson stands alone and can be taughtindependently.
¿ Additionalresources, such as the Reading Bank, Writing Bank and Functional Language Bank,provide extra support for students, while teachers can use a range of extraactivities to extend and add variety to a class.
¿ BusinessPartner is a blended course where the coursebook works as a standalonecomponent with signposts to a range of supplementary digital materials.
