Synopses & Reviews
"Business Options is suitable for people from all areas of business, particularly those functioning in an international environment. It is aimed at students with a good working knowledge of the language, but who lack confidence when they are required to step outside their own professional area. The course is structured around fourteen theme-based units which focus on real business situations both formally inside the workplace, and informally during social occasions. Each unit includes work on language skills, including speech production tasks to help students "sound confident and communicate more effectively. The grammar syllabus has an inductive approach, inviting students to explore areas that are often omitted from courses at a lower level. Business skills are developed through reading and listening tasks from authentic sources, which invite students to draw on their own experience through improvisations around the business themes. The "Teacher's Book includes warm-up and extension activities for monolingual and multilingual groups. An Answer Key to "Student's Book exercises, and five photocopiable Progress Tests are included.
Synopsis
Business Options offers fourteen theme-based units which focus on real-life business situations. The course offers strong coverage of social and cultural awareness, a particularly difficult area for many students.