TY - BOOK AU - Dubicka, Iwonna AU - O'Keefe, Margaret TI - Advanced Market Leader: Business English Course Book / SN - 9781292135274 (Student Book) PY - 2016///. CY - White Plains, NY PB - Pearson Education Ltd. KW - English language KW - Business English KW - Problems and exercises KW - Studying and teaching KW - Foreign speakers N1 - "3rd Edition Extra with business skills and self-assessment." (Front Cover); Includes Grammar Reference, Audio Script and Glossary; Unit 1: FIRST IMPRESSION ; LISTENING AND DISCUSSION: First impressions in presentations; READING AND LANGUAGE: It's not what you know; adverbs ; BUSINESS SKILLS: Networking ; WRITING: Formal and informal register ; CASE STUDY: Movers and shakers ; WRITING: Formal letter; Unit 2: TRAINING ; LISTENING AND DISCUSSION: Apprenticeship ; READING AND LANGUAGE: Training leaders to connect the dots; emphasizing your point ; BUSINESS SKILLS: Clarifying and confirming ; WRITING: Effective emails ; CASE STUDY: Training at Carter & Randall ; WRITING: Email (summarizing decisions); Unit 3: ENERGY ; LISTENING AND DISCUSSION: Clean energy ; READING AND LANGUAGE: The danger of losing touch with reality; articles; countable and uncountable nouns ; BUSINESS SKILLS: Decision-making ; WRITING: Layout and structure of reports ; CASE STUDY: Energy saving at Tumalet Software ; WRITING: Report; Unit 4: MARKETING ; LISTENING AND DISCUSSION: Customer relationship management ; READING AND LANGUAGE: Is the customer always right? Yes, she is; What women really want!; Defining and non-defining clauses ; BUSINESS SKILLS: Making an impact in presentations ; WRITING: Presentation slides ; CASE STUDY: Re-launching Home2u ; WRITING: Press release (product endorsement); Unit 5: EMPLOYMENT TRENDS ; LISTENING AND DISCUSSION: The future of work ; READING AND LANGUAGE: Giganomics: And what don't you do for a living?; -ing forms and infinitives ; BUSINESS SKILLS: Resolving conflict ; WRITING: Avoiding conflict in emails ; CASE STUDY: Delaney: call-centre absenteeism ; WRITING: Email (improving an e-mail by avoiding conflict); Unit 6: ETHICS ; LISTENING AND DISCUSSION: Trust me: corporate responsibility ; READING AND LANGUAGE: The corporate conscience: Sherron Watkins, Enron whistleblower; Drug whistleblower collects 424m; Modal perfect ; BUSINESS SKILLS: Ethical problem-solving ; WRITING: Meetings and actions points ; CASE STUDY: Dilemmas at Daybreak ; WRITING: Press release (damage limitation); Unit 7: FINANCE ; LISTENING AND DISCUSSION: Sustainable banking ; READING AND LANGUAGE: Day or reckoning for innumerate bankers; Multiword verbs ; BUSINESS SKILLS: Managing questions ; CASE STUDY: Dragons & Angels ; WRITING: Email (an investment proposal); Unit 8: CONSULTANTS ; LISTENING AND DISCUSSION: Operations consulting ; READING AND LANGUAGE: Day in the life of a management consultant; ellipsis ; BUSINESS SKILLS: Negotiating ; WRITING: Summarizing terms and conditions ; CASE STUDY: New market opportunities ; WRITING: Email (summarizing terms and conditions); Unit 9: STRATEGY ; LISTENING AND DISCUSSION: Strategy, goals and values ; READING AND LANGUAGE: Living strategy and death of the five-year plan; Rhetorical questions ; BUSINESS SKILLS: Brainstorming and creativity ; WRITING: mission statements ; CASE STUDY: Stella International Airways: strategy for the skies; WRITING: Summary; Unit 10: ONLINE BUSINESS ; LISTENING AND DISCUSSION: Developments in online business ; READING AND LANGUAGE: The new corporate firefighters; Rhetorical devices; BUSINESS SKILLS: Presentations: thinking on your feet ; CASE STUDY: The fashion screen ; WRITING: Summary; Unit 11: NEW BUSINESS ; LISTENING AND DISCUSSION: Advice for start-ups ; READING AND LANGUAGE: Go the distance with a one-trick pony, work longer, work older; cleft sentences ; BUSINESS SKILLS: Chasing payment ; CASE STUDY: Health growth for OTC Tech ; WRITING: Email (proposal for growth strategy); Unit 12: PROJECT MANAGEMENT ; LISTENING AND DISCUSSION: Issues in project management ; READING AND LANGUAGE: Fine-tune tour project schedule; instructive texts; BUSINESS SKILLS: Teleconferencing ; CASE STUDY: Creating a world-class port ; WRITING: Report; Advanced Business English learners. N2 - "Market Leader 3rd Edition has been completely updated to reflect the fast-changing world of business using authoritative and authentic business sources such as the Financial Times. The 3rd Edition Course Book includes: All new reading texts from the Financial Times -- All new case studies with opinions on DVD-ROM from successful consultants who work in the real world of business -- All new listening texts reflecting the global nature of business, with interviews that can be viewed on the DVD-ROM -- New 'Working Across Cultures' spreads -- New vocabulary trainer (www.marketleader.vocabtrainer.net). EXTRA Business Skills lessons: a task-based approach to the development of core business skills such as Presentations, Negotiations and Meetings. The DVD-ROM includes: Video interviews with business experts -- All course book audio -- New i-Glossary -- Practice exercises." 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