English for Legal Professionals – Oxford Business English

English for Legal Professionals is an ideal short course for anyone who needs to speak about the law in a business environment to clients, business partners, and colleagues.

English for Legal Professionals is part of the Express Series. It is an ideal course for students in employment, who want to communicate better in English.

This short, intensive course can be completed in 25-30 hours, so students make progress quickly.

English for Legal Professionals can be used as a stand-alone course, for self-study using the interactive MultiROM, or alongside a coursebook such as International Express.

English for Legal Professionals helps students to speak about the law in a business environment. The course provides students with the language they need to be able to communicate with confidence.

English for Legal Professionals addresses the basic areas of Commercial Law, including company law, employment law, contract law, copyright law, and bankruptcy law.

Every unit places the legal professional in different scenarios, and teaches them how to advise clients on suitable courses of legal action. Authentic documents provide professional vocabulary, and the ‘Vocabulary Assistant’ offers definitions of legal words and phrases.

Key features:

• Engaging topics, motivating role-plays, and a variety of exercises provide a framework for each specialist subject
• Tip boxes in each unit include key language points, useful phrases, and strategies
• STARTER section at the beginning of each unit has warm-up and awareness-raising activities
• OUTPUT sections at the end of each unit encourage discussion and reflection
• Answers, transcripts, and a glossary of useful phrases at the back of each book
• Self-study material on the interactive MultiROM includes realistic listening extracts and interactive exercises for extra practice

Contents:

• Unit 1: Setting up a business: Choosing the right business type, company liability.
• Unit 2: Employing people: Employment contracts, amendments, letters of resignation.
• Unit 3: Buying and selling goods and services: Preambles, agreements and contracts of sale, contractual disputes.
• Unit 4: Protecting intellectual property: copyright, patent, trademark, rights agreement.
• Unit 5: Mergers and acquisitions: Planning an acquisition, M & A procedure, financing a takeover
• Unit 6: Risk management and insolvency: Assessing legal risk, causes and implications of insolvency, creditors’ rights.

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English for Energy Industry – Oxford Business English

English for the Energy Industry is an ideal short course for anyone who needs English to communicate with colleagues and business contacts in the energy industry sector.

English for the Energy Industry is part of the Express Series. It is an ideal course for students in employment, who want to communicate better in English.

This short, intensive course can be completed in 25-30 hours, so students make progress quickly.

English for the Energy Industry can be used as a stand-alone course, for self-study using the interactive MultiROM, or alongside a coursebook such as International Express.

English for the Energy Industry gives students the necessary linguistic skills to understand daily situations in the work environment, and complex developments within the global energy sector.

English for the Energy Industry is divided into units by theme, such as energy production, environmental protection, technology, PR, business policy, and strategy.

Reading texts, diagrams, and authentic documents help students to learn key vocabulary and phrases in context. Role-plays allow learners to practise language and skills in realistic situations.

Key Features:

• Engaging topics, motivating role-plays, and a variety of exercises provide a framework for each specialist subject
• Tip boxes in each unit include key language points, useful phrases, and strategies
• STARTER section at the beginning of each unit has warm-up and awareness-raising activities
• OUTPUT sections at the end of each unit encourage discussion and reflection
• Answers, transcripts, and a glossary of useful phrases at the back of each book
• Self-study material on the interactive MultiROM includes realistic listening extracts and interactive exercises for extra practice

Contents:

• Unit 1: Introduction to the energy business: Fuels and energy sources, types of power plant, supplying the customer
• Unit 2: Markets and customers: Residential, business, and industrial customers, supplying an industrial customer, breakdown in supply.
• Unit 3: Protecting the environment: Energy saving, the image of the energy industry, technical measures to reduce pollution, the cost of protecting the environment.
• Unit 4: The nuclear issue: Developments in nuclear power, the nuclear production process, safety and security issues.
• Unit 5: Investment plans: Mergers and takeover, SWOT analyses, financial documents.
• Unit 6: The future of energy: Future production, demand, and supply, departments and their functions, the fuel cell.

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English for Aviation – Oxord Business English

English for Aviation is an ideal short course for pilots and air traffic controllers who need to prepare for the language fluency test required by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).

English for Aviation is part of the Express Series. It is an ideal course for students in employment, who want to communicate better in English.

This short, intensive course can be completed in 25-30 hours, so students make progress quickly.

English for Aviation can be used as a stand-alone course, for self-study using the interactive MultiROM, or alongside a coursebook such as International Express.

This pack includes:

• Student’s Book
• MultiROM

Key features:

• Engaging topics, motivating role-plays, and a variety of exercises provide a framework for each specialist subject
• Tip boxes in each unit include key language points, useful phrases, and strategies
• STARTER section at the beginning of each unit has warm-up and awareness-raising activities
• OUTPUT sections at the end of each unit encourage discussion and reflection
• Answers, transcripts, and a glossary of useful phrases at the back of each book
• Self-study material on the interactive MultiROM includes realistic listening extracts and interactive exercises for extra practice

Contents:

• Unit 1: Introduction to air communications: Setting the scene, radio communication, non-routine situations.
• Unit 2: Pre-flight: Pre-flight checks, local conditions, delays and problems.
• Unit 3: Ground movements: Airport markings and airside vehicles, taxiing and holding, weather problems.
• Unit 4: Departure, climbing, and cruising: Take-off, encountering traffic, warning about hazards.
• Unit 5: En route events: Operational situations, unusual events, medical situations.
• Unit 6: Contact and approach: Descent, circuit joining, approach and landing problems.
• Unit 7: Landing: Landing incidents, runway conditions, landing hazards.
• Unit 8: On the ground: Taxiing, getting to the gate, clear communication.

Audio features:

English for Aviation is accompanied by two discs – an Audio CD and a CD-ROM.

The Audio CD contains all the listening for the book, based on authentic radio telephony exchanges. It includes a variety of realistic interchanges between pilots and air traffic controllers. Students will hear native and non-native speakers using both standard radiotelephony and non-standard plain English. It can be played through the audio player on a computer or through a conventional CD player.

The CD-ROM contains interactive exercises to practise structure, vocabulary, listening comprehension, and an A-Z word list with all the key words in the book.

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English for Automobile Industry – Oxford Business English

English for the Automobile Industry is the ideal quick course for anyone who needs English to communicate with colleagues, customers, and business partners in the automotive industry.

English for the Automobile Industry is part of the Express Series. It is an ideal course for students in employment, who want to communicate better in English.

This short, intensive course can be completed in 25-30 hours, so students make progress quickly.

English for the Automobile Industry can be used as a stand-alone course, for self-study using the interactive MultiROM, or alongside a coursebook such as International Express

Key features:

• Engaging topics, motivating role-plays, and a variety of exercises provide a framework for each specialist subject
• Tip boxes present key language points, useful phrases, and strategies.
• STARTER section at the beginning of each unit has warm-up and awareness-raising activities
• OUTPUT sections at the end of each unit encourage discussion and reflection
• Answers, transcripts, and a glossary of useful phrases at the back of each book
• Self-study material on the interactive MultiROM includes realistic listening extracts and interactive exercises for extra practice

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English for Accounting – Oxford Business English

English for Accounting is part of the EXPRESS SERIES. It is the ideal quick course for anyone who needs to communicate with colleagues and clients about accounting and financial matters. It can be used to supplement a regular coursebook, on its own, as a stand-alone intensive specialist course of for self-study.

Key Features of the Book:

• Reading and listening exercises presenting language and vocabulary in context
• Authentic documents used in accounting and finance
• DID You KNOW? boxes addressing language and cultural issues
• Stimulating role-plays for pair work and group tasks
• STARTER section at the beginning of each unit with warm-up and awareness-raising activities
• OUTPUT section at the end of each unit with activities to encourage discussion and reflection
• Appendix with answer key, transcript and a glossary of financial terms

Key Features of the MultiROM:

• Realistic listening extracts
• Interactive exercises to practice useful phrases, vocabulary and communication
• A-Z word list and other helpful reference documents

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