English for Business Studies is a course for upper-intermediate and advanced level students who need to be able to understand and talk about key business and economic concepts. The course will be especially suitable for teaching Business English to students at business school, those on vocational training schemes, and students undertaking an English component of a business and commercial diploma or de-gee-level course. The Student’s Book contains 28 units and covers the full range of business and economic issues, from Work and Motivation to Exchange Rates and International Trade. The focus of the individual units is on developing listening, speaking, reading, writing skills. Each unit is designed to provide two or three hours’ work. The Audio Cassette or Audio CD set contains actual interviews with experts talking about their field of business or economics.
The Teacher’s Book provides: a full answer key; tape scripts of the recordings; ideas for warm-up and follow-up activities; briefings on the more complex business and economic theories and issues, plus photocopiable progress tests.
Key features of the book include:
* core reading texts to explain the basic content
* actual reading texts and audio recordings
* systematic vocabulary building
* language reference section
* multi-lingual glossary ( 词汇表) of key terms.
The focus of this book is to develop ______.