1 Topic focus: training opportunities; language focus - present simple and continuous. 2 Topic focus: successful companies; language focus - past simple and present perfect. 3 Situations: social situations; skills - effective socialising. 4 Topic focus: business travel; language focus - passives. 5 Topic focus: being the boss; language focus - review. 6 Situations: business correspondence; skills - effective e-mails; language skills - strategies for reading, strategies for writing, strategies for listening, strategies for speaking; focus - 1 adjectives and adverbs, 2 articles, 3 comparatives and superlatives, 4 countable and uncountable nouns, 5 determiners, 6 gerunds and infinitives, 7 imperatives, 8 linking words, 9 past continuous, 10 past perfect, 11 present perfect continuous, 12 punctuation, 13 relative clauses, 14 so and such, 15 time clauses, 16 too and enough. 7 Topic focus: looking to the future; language focus - Future forms. 8 Topic focus: corporate social responsibility; language focus - modal verbs. 9 Situations: telephone calls; skills - effective telephoning. 10 Topic focus: what if...?; language focus - conditionals 1 and 2. 11 Topic focus: getting started in business; language focus - review. 12 Situations: presenting your company; skills - effective presentations; tapescript; answer key; supplementary materials; essential vocabulary and irregular verbs; CD track list.
