Overview
A multimedia visit to a British electronics company
Level
Intermediate to Advanced
Version
International English
Business Territory 1: General exposes students to authentic idiomatic business English. The non-scripted language of the interviews offers a variety of British accents and prepares learners for communication in real-life business environments.
The program offers students the chance to visit a real British company without leaving the classroom. It is based on a series of authentic video interviews recorded at a Cambridge electronics company and includes a wealth of built-in language support in the form of transcripts, paraphrases, a glossary, and audio comments giving both linguistic and business information.
There are comprehension and auditing tasks to be completed on-screen but also many attractive printable worksheets which require students to collaborate in researching particular aspects of the company and presenting their findings in front of the class.
Most EFL/ESL multimedia packages are complete self-study courses of little interest to the classroom teacher. Business Territory 1: General has been developed in response to teachers asking multimedia resources designed specifically for classroom and one-to-one use. It has been designed to support active communicative language learning.
The integrated activities cover around 40 hours of student work and the language auditing task-types include true / false comprehension, opinion-gap, ranking, gapfill, and language auditing. These activities encourage students to watch the interviews from a variety of perspectives and use their language for communicative purposes.