Commercially Speaking is an elementary to pre-intermediate level course in language and communication skills for students on vocational courses. It will be especially useful to those working towards a qualification to help them find work in a commercial environment where they will need to use some English. There is a strong focus on commercial correspondence and telephoning skills, which are practiced within a realistic framework designed to reflect the situations students will meet on entering the workplace.
This Teacher’s Book provides comprehensive teaching notes to classroom exercises, and suggestions for extension activities. Answers to student activities are integrated with the teaching notes, and the answer key for the corresponding unit in the Workbook is included in a separate section at the end of each unit. The Teacher’s Book is accompanied by a complimentary disk, with extra material for correspondence practice. Notes on using this material are provided on the disk.
The complete course comprises the Student’s Book, this Teacher’s Book, a Workbook for further practice in reading an writing tasks, and one audio cassette which provides listening comprehension activities in a variety of accents, dictation passages, and pronunciation activities.
Unit 1A The situation
1B Letter layout
1C Peter phones Teresa
Unit 2A Places
2B Formality and informality
2C T4ravel arrangements
Unit 3A The shop
3B Good commercial letters
3C Getting through
Unit 4A At a trade fair
4B A letter of enquiry
4C Messages
Unit 5A Meeting new people
5B Replies
5C Telephone enquiries
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