Business Benchmark is a brand new Business English course at three levels. It helps students get ahead fast with their Business English vocabulary and skills, and gives them grammar practice in business contexts. It also helps students prepare for the internationally recognised Cambridge ESOL BULATS (Business Language Testing Service) Tests or BEC exams.
Key features:
24 short units, covering important vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, listening and speaking skills for business.
Grammar workshops providing extra grammar practice in business contexts.
An Exam practice section with authentic BULATS Test papers from Cambridge ESOL.
An Exam skills section, with exam-type tasks which give students detailed preparation for all the papers in the BULATS Test.
Authentic interviews with real business people available on audio CD.
Up-to-date business language in a range of contexts from Investments to Staff development.
Up-to-date business language in a range of contexts from Competitive advantage to Expanding abroad.
Up-to-date business language in a range of contexts from Financing start-ups to Offshoring and outsourcing.
Task tips giving advice on how to approach different task-types.
Sample compositions for writing activities.
CD-ROM containing a complete BULATS Test supplied by Cambridge ESOL, so students can practise for the BULATS Computer Test.
Answer keys and transcripts, so students can check their own progress.
The Personal Study Book contains:
Extra vocabulary, grammar and skills activities, based on the Students Book units.
Complete Word list containing core business vocabulary from the Students Book.
Full answer key to all its exercises.
The Teachers Resource Book provides:
A wide range of supplementary photocopiable material, including complete extra lessons.
Information about how the activities in each unit relate to the BEC Vantage exam and the BULATS Test.
Notes on each unit with advice and suggestions for alternative treatments.
Answer key to all the exercises in the photocopiable activities.
Complete answer key to all exercises in the Students Book, including the Exam skills and Exam practice section for both BEC and BULATS.
Complete Students Book transcripts with answers underlined.
Information about the Common European Framework and how this course relates to it.
Checklist of Can Do statements for students at upper-intermediate level.
