Essential Business Vocabulary Builder: ниво Pre-Intermediate - Intermediate + CD

This is the second, in a two-level series of business vocabulary and practice books. It is a self study/classroom book & CD pack. The first half of the book is devoted to business vocabulary and practice, the second half to skills work. The audio CD features interviews with real business people and has accompanying exercises in the book. The business vocabulary builders are intended as companions to the two business grammar builders by the same author.

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Business topics

• Companies and sectors
• Company types and structures
• Start-up and growth
• Individual company profile
• The manufacturing sector
• The service sector
• Markets, products and customers
• Markets and competitors
• Marketing - the four Ps
• Marketing strategy and brands
• Describing products\
• Costumers
• Orders, invoices and payment
• Money and finance
• Money
• Company finance
• The language of trends
• Everyday business life
• Numbers
• Time
• Office equipment
• Using the Internet and email
• Working conditions
• Your job
• Projects and teams
• Plans and forecasts
• Problems, problems
• Management
• Strategy and leadership
• Hiring, firing and promotion
• Cross-cultural communication
• Business and the environment
• CV and job interview
• CV (resume) and cover letter
• Job interview

Effective communication

• Social English
• Greating and introductions
• Welcoming visitors
• Standard responses
• Small talk
• Likes, free time, interests
• Home, city, country
• Food and drink
• At the restaurant
• Leaving and saying goodbyes
• Social English: summary and review
• Business travel
• Flights and travel
• Hotels
• Conferences and exhibitions
• Using the telephone
• Telephoning: getting connected
• Telephoning: start, middle and end
• Telephoning: common situations
• Telephoning: conference calls
• Telephoning: summary and review
• Emails
• Emails: basics
• Emails: meeting, arrangements
• Emails: commercial
• Emails: formal language
• Emails: summary and review
• Meetings
• Meetings: an introduction
• Meetings: basic phrases
• Meetings: cheking, claifuing, active listening
• Meetings: developing the discussion
• Meetings: summary and review
• Presentations
• Presentations: an introduction
• Presentations: structure and key phrases

Words: families, compounds, partners

• Word families: verbs and nouns
• Word families: adjectives and nouns
• Word families: more adjectives
• Word families: prefixes
• Word families: revision / extension I
• Word families: revision / extension II
• Compound groups
• Compound adjectives
• Word partners (collocation) I
• Word partners (collocation) II

Speaking practice

• Discussion topics

Writing practice

• Writing tasks

Listening exercises

• Interviews with business people: exercises
• An interview with an accountant
• Topics: explanation of income statement
• An interview with a B2B commercial director
• Topics: delegation; role of the sales rep
• An interview with a bank manager
• Topics: different ways to motivate employees
• An interview with a event organizer
• Topics: organizing exhibitions in an export market
• An interview with specialized manufacturer
• Topics: SWOT analysis of a small family firm
• An interview with a negotiator
• Topics: price; localization; quality guarantees
• An interview with a freight forwarder
• Topics: logistics using airlines
• An interview with an investment banker
• Topics: IPOs; M&A; raising funds
• An interview with a consultant
• Topics: cross-cultural differences
• An interview with a sales director
• Topics: distribution channels; franchising
• An interview with a takeover specialist
• Topics: hostile takeovers; restructuring
• An interview with an exporter
• Topics: control in the export market; getting paid

Listening Scripts

• Listen and repeat exercises
• Interviews with business people

Answer key