Business English Intermediate (B1) Programme

unit 1
brands

unit 2
travel

discussion

texts

language
work

skills

case study

Talk about your

favourite brands

Listening: An interview
with a brand manager

Words that go with

brand, product and
market

Taking part in
meetings

Hudson Corporation:
Decide how a luggage
manufacturer can
protect its brand

Reading: Building
luxury brands
Financial Times
Talk about your travel
experiences

Listening: An interview
with a sales director of
a hotel chain
Reading: What
business travellers
want Financial Times

unit 3
change

Discuss attitudes to
change in general
and at work

Reading: Mercedes,
shining star
Financial Times
Listening: An interview
with a management
consultant

Present simple and

present continuous
British and American
travel words
Talking about the
future

unit 8
human
resources

Telephoning:
making
arrangements

Business Travel
Services: Retain a
travel agents key
client

unit 9
international
markets

Talk about
status within an
organisation

Reading: A successful
organisation Financial
Times
Listening: An interview
with a management
consultant

unit 5
advertising

Discuss authentic
advertisements

Reading: A new kind of

campaign Financial
Times
Listening: An interview
with a marketing
communications
executive

unit 6
money

unit 7
cultures

Do a quiz and discuss

attitudes to money

Discuss the
importance of
cultural awareness in
business

Discuss the
development of
international markets

Writing: e-mail

Words for describing

change

Reading: Women at
work
Thanh Nien News

Expressions for
talking about job
applications

Listening: An interview
with an international
recruitment specialist

-ing forms and

infinitives

Reading: Trade
between China and
the US China Daily,
Reuters

Words and
expressions for
talking about free
trade

Listening: An interview
with an expert on
negotiating

Conditions

Reading: The ethics

of rsum writing
Business Week

Words to describe
illegal activity or
unethical behaviour

Listening: An interview
with the director of
an environmental
organisation

Narrative tenses

Listening: An interview
with the managing
director of an executive
recruitment company

Words to describe
character

Getting
information on
the telephone

Fast Fitness: Find a

new manager for a
health club chain
Writing: letter

Writing: e-mail

Managing
meetings

Past simple and

present perfect

Negotiating

Pampas Leather
Company: Negotiate
a deal on leather
goods
Writing: e-mail

Acquiring Asia
Entertainmenet: Solve
the problems arising
from a recent merger
Writing: action
minutes

unit 10
ethics

unit 4
organisation

Talk about job

interviews

Words and
expressions to
describe company
structure

Socialising:
introductions and
networking

Noun combinations

Words and
expressions for
talking about
advertising

InSteps relocation:
Decide on the
relocation site of a
shoe manufacturer
Writing: e-mail

Starting and
structuring a
presentation

Words and
expressions for
talking about finance

Writing: summary

Reading: An
inspirational story
Sunday Times

Describing trends

Listening: An interview
with the manager of a
cultural training centre

Idioms for talking

about business
relationships

Reading: Culture shock

Finance Week

Advice, obligation
and necessity

Dealing with
figures

Discuss the qualities

of good leadership

Make your pitch:

Present a new idea to
investors

Considering
options

unit 12
competition

Do a quiz on how
competitive you are

Reading: Head to head

competition
Financial Times

Presenting

Relative clauses

Business culture
briefing: Prepare
a talk on business
culture
Writing: report

Lina Sports:
Decide on the
best leader for a
troubled sportswear
manufacturer
Writing: e-mail

Idioms from sport to

describe competition

Negotiating

Passives

Listening: An interview
with a manager from
the Competition
Commission

Writing: e-mail

Social English

Principles or profit?:
Debate some ethical
dilemmas facing a
drugs company
Writing: report

Reading: Leading
LOral Financial
Times

Alpha Advertising:
Develop an
advertising campaign

Articles

Listening: An interview
with an investment
director

unit 11
leadership

Discuss questions of
ethics at work

* based on the syllabus suggested by New Market Leader Intermediate

Coursebook (Cambridge University Press)

Fashion House:
Negotiate new
contracts with
suppliers
Writing: e-mail