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. ¿
Financial Times articles provide reading practice to build on the topics discussed in the
videos further exposing students to authentic English. ¿ Students work on case
studies that allow them to practise their business and communication skills in realistic
professional contexts. 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. ¿ Practical skills training includes
negotiating presenting building relationships and small talk. ¿ An innovative
video-based training programme helps build the communication skills including supporting
teamwork listening actively collaborating solving problems and influencing. Building
language skills ¿ Students acquire functional language and practise all the skills
including writing grammar and pronunciation. ¿ The task-based approach incorporates
presentation and practice with a lot of communicative pair and group tasks and projects. ¿
There are multiple opportunities for writing practice across all the lessons with a full
writing lesson in each unit. Flexibility for teachers and learners ¿ The course 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 taught independently. ¿ 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. ¿ Business Partner is a blended course where the coursebook
works as a standalone component with signposts to a range of supplementary digital materials.
