Business Partner B2

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Business Partner?

Our research talking to teachers and learners proved a few very obvious points.

1 People study business English in order to communicate more effectively in their workplace or to find a job in an international environment.

2 To achieve these goals, you need to improve your knowledge of English language as it is used in the workplace, but also develop key skills for the international workplace.

3 People studying business English have different priorities and amounts of study time. You therefore need a flexible course which you can adapt to suit your needs.

Business Partner has been developed to meet these needs by offering a flexible course, focused on delivering a balance of language and skills training that you can immediately use to improve your performance in your workplace, studies or job search.

Why…

Skills training?

Language is only one aspect of successful communication. Effective communication also requires an understanding of different business situations and an awareness of different communication styles, especially when working across cultures.

In Business Partner we refer to ‘Communication skills’ and ‘Business skills’. Every unit has a lesson on these two areas.

• ‘Communication skills’ (Lesson 3) means the soft skills you need to work effectively with people whose personality and culture may be different from your own. These include building relationships, handling difficult communicators and managing challenging feedback.
• ‘Business skills’ (Lesson 4) means the practical skills you need in different business situations, such as skills for taking part in meetings, presentations and negotiations.

Why…

authentic content?

In order to reflect the real world as closely as possible, Business Partner content is based on authentic videos and articles from leading media organisations such as the BBC, the NIKKiEI Asian Review and the Financial Times. These offer a wealth of international business information as well as real examples of British, U.S. and non-native speaker English.

Why…

video content?

We all use video more and more to communicate and to find out about the world. This is reflected in Business Partner, which has two videos in every unit:

• an authentic video package in Lesson 1, based on real-life video clips and interviews suitable for your level of English.
• a dramatised communication skills video in Lesson 3 (see p.6 for more information).

Why…

flexible content?

This course has been developed so that you can adapt it to your own needs. Each unit and lesson works independently, so you can focus on the topics, lessons or skills which are most relevant to you and skip those which don’t feel relevant to your needs right now.

You can then use the extra activities and additional materials in MyEnglishLab to work in more depth on the aspects that are important to you.

What’s in the units?

Lesson outcome and self-assessment

Each lesson starts with a lesson outcome and ends with a short self-assessment section. The aim is to encourage you to think about the progress that you have made in relation to the lesson outcomes. More detailed self-assessment tasks and suggestions for extra practice are available in MyEnglishLab.

Vocabulary

The main topic vocabulary set is presented and practised in Lesson 1 of each unit, building on vocabulary from the authentic video. You will get lots of opportunities to use the vocabulary in discussions and group tasks.

Functional language

Functional language (such as managing bad news, discussing priorities, facilitating a discussion) gives you the capability to operate in real workplace situations in English. Three functional language sets are presented and practised in every unit: in Lessons 3, 4 and 5. You will practise the language in group speaking and writing tasks.

1 In MyEnglishLab you will also find a Functional Language bank so that you can quickly refer to lists of useful language when preparing for a business situation, such as a meeting, presentation or interview.

Grammar

The approach to grammar is flexible depending on whether you want to devote a significant amount of time to grammar or to focus on the consolidation of grammar only when you need to.

• There is one main grammar point in each unit, presented and practised in Lesson 2.
• There is a link from Lesson 5 to an optional second grammar point in MyEnglishLab – with short video presentations and interactive practice.

Both grammar points are supported by the Grammar reference section at the back of the coursebook (p.118). This provides a summary of meaning and form, with notes on usage or exceptions, and business English examples.

Listening and video

The course offers a wide variety of listening activities (based on both video and audio recordings) to help you develop your comprehension skills and to hear target language in context. All of the video and audio material is available in MyEnglishLab and includes a range of British, U.S. and non-native speaker English. Lessons 1 and 3 are based on video (as described above). In four of the eight units, Lesson 2 is based on audio. In all units, you also work with significant audio recordings in Lesson 4 and the Business workshop.

Reading

You will read authentic texts and articles from a variety of sources, particularly the Financial Times. Every unit has a main reading text with comprehension tasks. This appears either in Lesson 2 or in the Business workshop.

• In MyEnglishLab, you will also find a Reading bank which offers a longer reading text for every unit with comprehension activities.

Speaking

Collaborative speaking tasks appear at the end of Lessons 1, 3, 4 and the Business workshop in every unit. These tasks encourage you to use the target language and, where relevant, the target skill of the lesson. There are lots of opportunities to personalise these tasks to suit your own situation.

Writing

• Lesson 5 in every unit provides a model text and practice in a business writing skill. The course covers a wide range of genres such as proposals, reviews, blogs and emails, and for different purposes, including internal and external company communications, summarising, making requests and giving reasons.
• There are also short writing tasks in Lesson 2 which provide controlled practice of the target grammar.

In MyEnglishLab, you will find a Writing bank which provides models of different types of business writing and useful phrases appropriate to your level of English.

Pronunciation

Two pronunciation points are presented and practised in every unit. Pronunciation points are linked to the content of the unit – usually to a video/audio presentation or to a grammar point. The pronunciation presentations and activities are at the back of the coursebook (p.112), with signposts from the relevant lessons. This section also includes an introduction to pronunciation with British and U.S. phonetic charts.

Reviews

There is a one-page review for each unit at the back of the coursebook (p.104). The review recycles and revises the key vocabulary, grammar and functional language presented in the unit.

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

• Coursebook
• Audio
• Video
• Workbook
• WB Audio
• tests + Audio
• telephone bank
• Teachers Resource Book

 

 

Format:PDF,MP3,MP4
Size:1.41 GB
Pages:161,64,212
Series:Business Partner
Level:B2
Date:2020

 

 

 

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Business Partner B2 PDF,MP3,MP4

 

 

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tests + Audio , telephone bank

 

 

 

 

Teachers Resource Book

 

 

 

 

 

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