Business Listening & Speaking

Ideal for internationally-minded business people, Business Listening & Speaking students will get practice in talking about the situations they most need to talk about.

A dedicated skills book that concentrates on the skills of listening and speaking within a communicative framework.

The text focuses on broad themes—the impact of new technology on a business, entering a new market, the logistics of an industry—that are relevant to a wide range of industries.

KEY FEATURES:

• • • • A wide variety of themes of intrinsic interest to business people, such as Business Ethics, Company Structure, New Markets and more

• • • • Extended listenings as well as short listenings

• • • • Listening for gist, for understanding and for specific information

• • • • A variety of standard English accents that international business people will encounter

• • • • Listening Clinics: exercises that help learners understand English as it is naturally spoken

• • • • Speaking tasks: designed to extend the listening practices and cement understanding of the language and concepts introduced, and to then encourage the learners to bring their own experiences into the classroom