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.
