Jeremy Comfort

A video-based series aimed at improving communicative skills in specific areas. Effective Presentations teaches the skills needed to make clear, well-organized presentations. Each of the nine free-standing units focuses on a specific area such as structuring the presentation, making a good introduction, and handling questions effectively. How can it be used? As the basis of a short, intensive specialist course. As a component of a longer, more general Business English training programme. For classroom teaching, but also for self-study. Who is it for? Work-experienced learners from a variety of professional fields. Pre-work experience students.

A video-based series aimed at improving communicative skills in specific areas. Effective Meetings is for anyone who has to chair or attend meetings and wants to get more out of them. The eight free-standing units deal with areas such as preparing for a meeting, making your views heard, and clarifying action to be taken. The meetings take place in and between two companies, giving examples of both formal and more informal meetings. How can it be used? As the basis of a short, intensive specialist course. As a component of a longer, more general Business English training programme. For classroom teaching, but also for self-study. Who is it for? Work-experienced learners from a variety of professional fields. Pre-work experience students. Key features Each course looks at a common business function - presentations, meetings, telephoning, socializing and negotiating - and takes learners through a stage-by-stage analysis of the skills and language they need to perform these functions effectively in English. The 30-minute video is the central component of each course. The video illustrates both bad and good versions of the core activity for analysis and discussion. It also acts as the focus for further transfer activities and language work, which are contained in the Student's Book. Each unit is divided into three sections. The first section, Communication Skills identifies and practises the key communication skills of the course (e.g. telephoning). The Language Knowledge section focuses on useful language for performing these skills. The final Practice section gives students the opportunity to put both communication skills and language knowledge into practice in realistic tasks. Students are encouraged to draw on their own experience and use their own ideas whenever possible.

Trish StottSpeaking Effectively provides the trainer with a business English book which can be used as supplementary material or as the basis for a short course at the lower-intermediate level to develop fluency and language competence. All of the 14 units are short, easy-to-use and do not require much preparation on the part of the teacher. The three case studies interspersed throughout the book allow the learner the opportunity to use the language acquired in the preceding units in more extended speaking activities. Speaking Effectively is accompanied by a cassette with the tapescripts in the back of the book.

This new series of video-based courses is aimed at professional people who need to improve their language and communication skills, in specific business areas. Each course takes a common business function, such as giving a presentation or participating in a meeting, and takes learners through a stage-by-stage analysis of the skills and language they need to perform these functions effectively in English.

This is a new addition to the "Masterclass" series providing preparation for the revised Cambridge Business English Certificate (BEC) Vantage examination.