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.
