Business Options is an upper-intermediate level course for professional people from all areas of business. It follows the communicative, functional approach which is a hallmark of Oxford business courses, and extends this development of business skills appropriate to the needs of upper-intermediate students.
The course is structured around fourteen theme-based units such as Performance and Trade, which focus on real business situations, both formally inside the workplace and informally on social occasions. A strong feature of the material is its attention to socail and cultural awareness, often the most difficult area for students at this level.
Key features of the course:
- Emphasis on development of social skills in a cross-cultural environment
- Each unit is discrete so units can be used in any order
- Speech production tasks featured to help students learn how to sound confident and thus communicate
more effectively
- Each unit includes a meeting on the unit theme, which can be formal or informal as appropriate
- Table talk section as a feature of each unit, to encourage students to develop conversational skills
outside their normal area of work
- Cassettes include improvised listening passages to build confidence in listening to the features of
natural, unscripted speech
The complete course comprises this Student's Book, a Teacher's Book wiht photocopiable progress tests, a Workbook, and two audio cassettes.
1. Protocol
2. Meetings
3. Organization
4. Numbers
5. Communication
6. Travel
7. Planning
8. Products
9. Visiting
10. Entertaining
Etc.