Highlights
- The book provides comprehensive coverage of business-related topics, including marketing, finance, management, and workplace communication, with vocabulary presented in real-world contexts for better understanding.
- Its clear structure organizes content into units focused on specific business topics, offering explanations, examples, and exercises that reinforce learning.
- The vocabulary and phrases are highly practical, emphasizing their use in professional settings such as meetings, presentations, negotiations, and emails.
- It is suitable for both self-study and classroom use, with included answers and explanations making it ideal for independent learners.
- The book encourages the integration of vocabulary into speaking, writing, listening, and reading tasks, building confidence for real-world business communication.
- It introduces terms and practices relevant across industries and global business environments while addressing cultural nuances in business English.
- Visual aids like charts, diagrams, and illustrations enhance understanding, and the user-friendly design highlights key terms for easy reference.
- It is tailored for intermediate learners transitioning from general English to business English, offering the right balance of challenge and accessibility.
- Explains typical word combinations and grammar, like operative verbs.
Specifications
| Publisher | Bill Mascull |
| Book Description | The right-hand page The exercises on the right-hand page give practice in using the new vocabulary and expressions presented on the left-hand page. Some units contain diagrams to complete, or crosswords. ‘Over to you’ sections An important feature of Business Vocabulary in Use Intermediate is the Over to you section at the end of each unit. There are sometimes alternative Over to you sections for learners who are in work and for those who are studying pre-work. The Over to you sections give you the chance to put into practice the words and expressions in the unit in relation to your own professional situation, studies or opinions. Self-study learners can do the section as a written activity. In many Over to you sections, learners can use the internet to find more information. In the classroom, the Over to you sections can be used as the basis for discussion with the whole class, or in small groups with a spokesperson for each summarizing the discussion and its outcome for the class. The teacher can then get students to look again at exercises relating to points that have caused difficulty. Students can follow up by using the Over to you section as a written activity, for example as homework. The Answer key contains sample answers for the Over to you questions. How to use the book for self-study Find the topic you are looking for by using the Contents page or the Index. Read through the explanations on the left-hand page of the unit. Do the exercises on the right-hand page. Check your answers in the Answer key. If you have made some mistakes, go back and look at the explanations and the exercise again. Note down important words and expressions in your notebook. How to use the book in the classroom Teachers can choose units that relate to their students’ particular needs and interests, for example areas they have covered in coursebooks, or that have come up in other activities. Alternatively, lessons can contain a regular vocabulary slot, where students look systematically at the vocabulary of particular thematic or skills areas. Students can work on the units in pairs, with the teacher going round the class assisting and advising. Teachers should get students to think about the logical process of the exercises, pointing out why one answer is possible and the others are not (where this is the case). We hope you enjoy using Business Vocabulary in Use Intermediate |
| Editorial Review | Introduction Who is this book for? Business Vocabulary in Use Intermediate is designed to help intermediate and upper-intermediate learners of business English to improve their business vocabulary. It is for people studying English before they start work and for those already working who need English in their job. In addition to improving your business vocabulary, the book helps you to develop the language needed for important business communication skills. You can use the book on your own for self-study, with a teacher in the classroom, one-to-one or in groups. How is the book organized? The book has 66 two-page units. The first 46 of these are thematic and look at the vocabulary of business areas such as people, organizations, production, marketing and finance. The other 20 units focus on the language of skills you need in business, such as those for presentations, meetings, telephoning and negotiations. The left-hand page of each unit explains new words and expressions, and the right-hand page allows you to check and develop your understanding of the words and expressions, and how they are used through a series of exercises. There is cross-referencing between units to show connections between the same word or similar words used in different contexts. There is an Answer key at the back of the book. Most of the exercises have questions with only one correct answer. But some of the exercises, including the Over to you activities at the end of each unit (see below), are designed for writing and/or discussion about yourself and your own organization or one that you know. There is also an Index. This lists all the new words and phrases which are introduced in the book and gives the unit numbers where the words and phrases appear. The Index also tells you how the words and expressions are pronounced. The left-hand page This page introduces new vocabulary and expressions for each thematic or skills area. The presentation is divided into a number of sections indicated by letters: A, B, C, etc., with simple, clear titles. In Business Vocabulary in Use Intermediate, explicit reference is made to the business material in the Cambridge International Corpus (CIC) – business pages of newspapers, business textbooks, and business meetings and discussions. The texts are stored in a database, which is searchable in various ways to reveal the patterns of business usage. The database has been exploited to identify typical word combinations found in the data, and there are notes about their relative frequency. As well as explanations of vocabulary, there is information about typical word combinations and grammar associated with particular vocabulary, for example operative verbs – the verbs that are typically used with particular nouns. Again, the CIC has been a prime source of information about these. How to use the book for self-study Find the topic you are looking for by using the Contents page or the Index. Read through the explanations on the left-hand page of the unit. Do the exercises on the right-hand page. Check your answers in the Answer key. If you have made some mistakes, go back and look at the explanations and the exercise again. Note down important words and expressions in your notebook. How to use the book in the classroom Teachers can choose units that relate to their students’ particular needs and interests, for example areas they have covered in coursebooks, or that have come up in other activities. Alternatively, lessons can contain a regular vocabulary slot, where students look systematically at the vocabulary of particular thematic or skills areas. Students can work on the units in pairs, with the teacher going round the class assisting and advising. Teachers should get students to think about the logical process of the exercises, pointing out why one answer is possible and the others are not (where this is the case). We hope you enjoy using Business Vocabulary in Use Intermediate. |
| About the Author | Bill Mascull is a well-known author in the field of business English. He is best known for creating the popular "Business Vocabulary in Use" series of books, which are widely used by learners of English around the world. These books are designed to help students improve their business English vocabulary and communication skills. |
| Edition Number | Third edition |
Business Vocabulary in use intermediate
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