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.
