English for Everyone Slipcase: Business English, Paperback

Description

A new, exciting, and intuitive way to learn business English, this comprehensive self-study course--now available
in a beautifully packaged box set--is uniquely visual, engaging, and easy to follow.

English for Everyone: Business English is the easiest way to teach yourself workplace English. The course combines innovative visual teaching methods with the best of DK design to make workplace English easy to learn. The most useful English grammar and business vocabulary are tied into everyday workplace situations, such as interviews, meetings, presentations, sales pitches, formal and informal phone calls, business travel, and conferences. Essential documents, such as job applications, resumes, and formal emails, are analyzed in detail, making them easy to understand and replicate.

The box set includes a course book and a corresponding practice book. The practice book is an essential companion to the course book, offering extensive exercises to drill language skills and improve fluency. Each book is structured in two levels, with Level 1 starting at pre-intermediate English, and Level 2 taking you to upper intermediate.

Key language skills, grammar rules, and business vocabulary are presented in a clear and simple way, with attractive illustrations to put business English in context. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing exercises, backed by extensive audio and interactive digital practice, are presented in bite-sized modules, allowing you to learn at your own pace. Whatever your career, the English for Everyone: Business English box set will make it incredibly easy to teach yourself English for the workplace.

About the author

Victoria Boobyer is a freelance writer, presenter, and teacher trainer with a background in English-language teaching and teacher management. She has a keen interest in the use of graded readers and the sound pedagogical use of technology in teaching.

Thomas Booth worked for 10 years as an English teacher in Poland and Russia. He now lives in England, where he works as an editor and English materials writer, notably of course books and vocabulary textbooks.

Trish Burrow worked for seven years as a teacher and teacher trainer in Poland and UK summer schools. After a year working in a UK college as an ELT lecturer, she worked as an editor of exams materials and then English teaching materials. She lives in the UK and is a freelance writer and editor.

Course consultant: Tim Bowen has taught English and trained teachers in more than 30 countries worldwide. He is the co-author of works on pronunciation teaching and language-teaching methodology, and author of numerous books for English-language teachers. He is currently a freelance materials writer, editor, and translator. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists.

US consultant: Professor Susan Barduhn is an experienced English teacher, teacher trainer, and author, who has contributed to numerous publications. In addition to directing English courses in at least four different continents, she has been President of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, and an adviser to the British Council and the US State Department. She is currently a Professor at the School for International Training in Vermont.