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Guy Brook-Hart
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Unit 1

Unit 7

18

Staff development and training

A stand at a trade fair

Vocabulary: staff training

Grammar: countable vs. uncountable;
a/an; forming questions; word order
in questions

Vocabulary: compound nouns

Writing: completing an email;
writing a reply
Reading: editing skills
Grammar: formal requests

Unit 2

8
Job descriptions and job satisfaction
Vocabulary: projects; word formation
Grammar: past simple or present
perfect; writing a report

Unit 3

10

Getting the right job

Grammar: prepositions
Reading: editing skills
Vocabulary: phrases for expressing
enthusiasm; adjectives

Unit 4

12

Vocabulary: saying figures as words;

prices
Grammar: first and second conditional
Reading: editing skills
Writing: email replying to a complaint

22

Vocabulary: finance; franchises;

do/make/go
Grammar: prepositions in time phrases
Writing: email making arrangements

Unit 10

24

Financing a start-up

14

Breaking into the market

Vocabulary: launching new products
Grammar: -ing form or infinitive
Writing: a reply to an email

16

Launching a product
Vocabulary: word formation;
marketing vocabulary
Grammar and writing: prepositions
in phrases describing trends; a brief
report describing bar charts

Being persuasive

Unit 9

Reading: completing a phone

conversation gap-fill
Grammar: comparatives and
superlatives; expressing large and
small differences

Unit 6

20

Starting a business

Making contact

Unit 5

Unit 8

Vocabulary: multiple-choice cloze;

finance
Writing: completing a reply to an
application; writing a letter of invitation

Unit 11

26

Expanding into Europe

Vocabulary: odd word out; compound
nouns
Reading: editing skills
Grammar: linking words

Unit 12

28

Presenting your business idea

Vocabulary: presentation equipment;
signalling phrases
Grammar: verb forms; can vs. could

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978-1-107-68660-1 Business Benchmark Upper Intermediate
Guy Brook-Hart
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Unit 13

30

Unit 20

44

Arranging business travel

Offshoring and outsourcing

Vocabulary and writing: booking

accommodation
Grammar: should have

Vocabulary: financial phrases

Grammar: third-conditional verb forms
Reading: editing skills
Writing: letter responding to enquiry

Unit 14

32

Business conferences
Vocabulary: phrasal verbs; opposites
of adjectives; word formation; positive
and negative adjectives

Unit 15

34

Business meetings
Vocabulary: meetings; compound
nouns; meetings verbs
Grammar: using pronouns for reference

Unit 16

36

Spending the sales budget

Vocabulary: multiple-choice cloze;
verbs to express increases and
decreases
Grammar: the passive

Unit 17

38

40

Business and the environment

Vocabulary: method vs. way;
environmental collocations
Grammar: linking phrases introducing
reasons
Writing: proposal

A staff survey
Vocabulary: working conditions;
expressing quantities
Grammar: reported speech; error
correction

Vocabulary: multiple-choice cloze

Grammar: relative pronouns and
clauses

Unit 22

48

Communication with customers

Vocabulary: adjectivenoun
collocations
Grammar: prepositions
Writing: completing and writing sales
reports

Unit 23

Vocabulary: verbnoun collocations

Grammar: definite article
Reading: editing skills
Writing: report

Unit 19

46

50

Corresponding with customers

Social media and business

Unit 18

Unit 21
Customer satisfaction and loyalty

42

Vocabulary: last vs. latest; verbnoun

collocations; word formation
Grammar: causes and results

Unit 24

52

Business across cultures

Vocabulary: collocations revision;
presentation expressions
Grammar: expressions with
verb+-ing

Writing supplement
Punctuation and spelling

54
56

Punctuation
Spelling

Organising your writing

Sample answers

58
60
61
62
64
66

Answer key

69

Paragraphing
Linking paragraphs and ideas
Planning letters and emails
Linking ideas in short emails
Planning reports and proposals

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