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Intelligent Business: Intermediate Coursebook
What's special about the Intelligent Business Course Book? * You can effortlessly blend the development of language skills with the introduction of business concepts * Boost your students' business writing skills the Style Guide has authentic business documents like emails, minutes and reports * Add international business flavour to your lessons with the 'Culture at Work' sections * Challenge your students with the 'Dilemma and Decision' section in every unit which asks students to evaluate a real-life business dilemma * Easily prepare students for BEC exams using the Workbook that has plenty of BEC-style exercises and an authentic Practice Test
- GenresBusiness
176 pages, Paperback
First published March 3, 2005
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June 2, 2022
I am trying to use this book to teach Mainland Chinese students, and I can't think of one single positive thing about it.
1. Long, babbling dialogues that are not slow enough for non-native speakers to follow.
2. Regional English accents that are more appropriate for advanced language learners and not intermediate students.
3. Intensely boring exercises/ activities that just don't feel focused enough.
4. Insufficient exercises (as in, where the student would write something or match a word with a definition in order to concept check).
5. Only one listening exercise per chapter without enough direct questions on content.
6. No introduction of esoteric vocabulary beforehand. (There was one dialogue about some protesters protesting about a dam that was being built. Can you tell me where are students supposed to get words like "settlement" before this lesson? The only way that I could have done this was to go back through the index of the book and fish out the words before the class.)
7. The dialogues don't seem to be cumulative (so that we could build on this vocabulary-that-we-almost-never-use-in-any-other-situation to keep it at least semi-fresh).
I'm really surprised that my students have not struck me after using this book for more than 3 sessions. Mercifully, I only have to use it once a week. And even then, I can hide behind the excuse that the school mandates it.
Save your time and your money-- and possibly even the time spent recovering from a black eye should you try to use this to teach in class.
1. Long, babbling dialogues that are not slow enough for non-native speakers to follow.
2. Regional English accents that are more appropriate for advanced language learners and not intermediate students.
3. Intensely boring exercises/ activities that just don't feel focused enough.
4. Insufficient exercises (as in, where the student would write something or match a word with a definition in order to concept check).
5. Only one listening exercise per chapter without enough direct questions on content.
6. No introduction of esoteric vocabulary beforehand. (There was one dialogue about some protesters protesting about a dam that was being built. Can you tell me where are students supposed to get words like "settlement" before this lesson? The only way that I could have done this was to go back through the index of the book and fish out the words before the class.)
7. The dialogues don't seem to be cumulative (so that we could build on this vocabulary-that-we-almost-never-use-in-any-other-situation to keep it at least semi-fresh).
I'm really surprised that my students have not struck me after using this book for more than 3 sessions. Mercifully, I only have to use it once a week. And even then, I can hide behind the excuse that the school mandates it.
Save your time and your money-- and possibly even the time spent recovering from a black eye should you try to use this to teach in class.
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