Business English Vocabulary for Professionals is a comprehensive book for business people at an advanced level. It is particularly useful for students with a high level of business knowledge, providing them with the basic relevant language and communication skills required in a professional environment. It is suitable for both classroom use and self study.
The book is structured around the following topics: business emails, presentations and negotiations vocabulary, debate topics for business English, expressions for making and receiving phone calls at work, customer service vocabulary, advertising and retail vocabulary, business collocations, expressions for describing jobs or companies, describing graphs, hotel and air travel vocabulary, business plan sample, presenting visuals, interview questions.
It provides guidance for writing business e-mails, encourages critical thinking through various discussion points, presents tasks with different degrees of difficulty in each section to cater for mixed-ability groups. At the end of the book, there is the section Annexes. Annexes comprises the following: abbreviations and acronyms, 100 essential business verbs, 100 essential business nouns, comparative and superlative of adjectives, irregular verbs.
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