The new eight-level course that teaches Business English and Business skills Business Partner gives students the practical training they need to bridge the gap between the classroom and the world of work.
Business Partner is a blended course where the courseBook works as a standalone component with signposts to a range of supplementary digital materials..
Additional resources such as the Reading Bank Writing Bank and Functional Language Bank provide extra support for students while Teachers can use a range of extra activities to extend and add variety to a class.
While units are linked by theme each lesson stands alone and can be taught independently.
Flexibility for Teachers and Learners The course allows Teachers to pick and choose their lessons to suit their students.
The dramatised videos of real work situations feature a range of accents and demonstrate dealing with professional challenges to help students develop communication skills such as influencing and listening actively.
Videos The authentic video content features real-life Business stories providing information and key language relating to Business topics.
There are multiple opportunities for writing practice across all the lessons with a full writing lesson in each unit.
The task-based approach incorporates presentation and practice with a lot of communicative pair and group tasks and projects.
Building Language Skills Students acquire functional language and practise all the skills including writing grammar and pronunciation.
An innovative video-based training programme helps build the communication skills including supporting teamwork listening actively collaborating solving problems and influencing.
Practical skills training include negotiating presenting building relationships and small talk.
Building Communicative and Business Skills The course builds two sets of skills communication and practical Business skills which students practise together in the Business workshop case studies.
Students work on case studies that allow them to practise their Business and communication skills in realistic professional contexts.
Financial Times articles provide reading practice to build on the topics discussed in the videos further exposing students to authentic English.
Real Life Business Content Authentic video content introduces unit topics exposing students to real English and the sorts of issues they may encounter in their careers.
Each level is written to a syllabus based on the Global Scale of English Learning Objectives for Professional English to help learners evaluate their progress.
It also provides many suggestions and alternative ways to use the material for those students already in work.
Business Partner does not assume any knowledge of the workplace and is designed for students with no work experience.
It helps learners to make measurable progress in learning English while helping to make them more employable.
The new eight-level course that teaches Business English and Business skills Business Partner gives students the practical training they need to bridge the gap between the classroom and the world of work
