Beschreibung
minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#3D3935;mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Real life business content mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#3D3935; mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin; color:#3D3935;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">• Authentic video content introduces unit topics, exposing students to real English and the sorts of issues they may encounter in their careers. minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin; color:#3D3935;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">• Financial Times articles provide reading practice to build on the topics discussed in the videos, further exposing students to authentic English. minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin; color:#3D3935;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">• Students work on case studies that allow them to practise their business and communication skills in realistic professional contexts. minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#3D3935;mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Building communicative and business skills minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin; color:#3D3935;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">• The course builds two sets of skills - communication and practical business skills - which students practise together in the business workshop case studies. minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin; color:#3D3935;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">• Practical skills training includes negotiating, presenting, building relationships and small talk. minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin; color:#3D3935;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">• An innovative video-based training programme helps build the communication skills, including supporting teamwork, listening actively, collaborating, solving problems, and influencing. minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#3D3935;mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Building language skills minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin; color:#3D3935;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">• Students acquire functional language and practise all the skills, including writing, grammar and pronunciation. minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin; color:#3D3935;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">• The task-based approach incorporates presentation and practice, with a lot of communicative pair and group tasks and projects. minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin; color:#3D3935;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">• There are multiple opportunities for writing practice across all the lessons, with a full writing lesson in each unit. minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#3D3935;mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Flexibility for teachers and learners minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin; color:#3D3935;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">• The course allows teachers to pick and choose their lessons to suit their students. While units are linked by theme, each lesson stands alone and can be taught independently. minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin; color:#3D3935;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">• Additional resources, such as the Reading Bank, Writing Bank and Functional Language Bank, provide extra support for students, while teachers can use a range of extra activities to extend and add variety to a class. minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin; color:#3D3935;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">• Business Partner is a blended course where the coursebook works as a standalone component with signposts to a range of supplementary digital materials.