English level:

Elementary and Pre-Intermediate

Elementary: David Grant, John Hughes and Robert McLarty
Elementary Teacher's Book and Workbook: John Hughes Pre-Intermediate: David Grant and Robert McLarty
Pre-Intermediate Teacher's Book: John Hughes

Description

A two-level foundation course in business English. 100 hours of teaching material, supported by a further 100 hours of self-study materials on CD-ROM, on audio CD, in the Student's Book and Workbook, and on the Business Focus website.

Overview

By the authors of the successful Business Basics New Edition, Business Focus equips low-level learners with the English they need to communicate in the workplace. Business Focus is for adults in any job and at any level of employment, who need to communicate in English immediately.

Who is it for?
Elementary to pre-intermediate business English students.
Busy professionals already in business who may have completed a beginner's course in general English.

Key features
A genuine foundation business English course, with a carefully graded syllabus.
A focus on speaking and listening, and language of immediate practical use. Units feature games, role-plays, and special discussion sections, Focus on Business Issues.
Multilingual word and expression lists in five world languages at the back of the Elementary Student's Book, and a glossary of key words at Pre-Intermediate.
Every Student's Book comes with a CD-ROM including video clips from the OUP business video series Big City, and audio for all the key words. The Elementary CD-ROM also has interactive role-plays, with a record and playback facility for students to record their own voice, and a bank of model emails where students can copy and paste useful phrases into their own emails.
Every workbook comes with an audio CD, with additional listening material.

Components
Student's Book
Units are divided into short, manageable sub-sections
a language reference file at the back of the book with extra exercises
multilingual wordlists at Elementary level and a full glossary at Pre-Intermediate level
FREE CD-ROM with every book
Workbook
exercises for further practice and consolidation
full answer key
FREE audio CD with every book
Teacher's Book
comprehensive unit-by-unit teaching notes
photocopiable progress test
photocopiable worksheets to supplement the Student's Book and develop fluency
full answers to the Language reference exercises in the Student's Book
complete tapescript
Cassettes / CDs
all the listening material in high-quality recordings
Student's Website
(www.oup.com/elt/global/products/businessfocus)
activities review each section of the Student's book
crosswords
wordsearches
game
Teacher's Website
(www.oup.com/elt/catalogue/teachersites/businessfocus/)
downloadable handouts and worksheets
vocabulary storage sheets
printable reading texts for extra practice and vocabulary development
specially commissioned articles on methodology, etc
unit-by-unit printable phrasebooks
cloze-maker facility using texts from the Student's Book

Sample pages download