| Authors: Darel Behan & Brian Fox Publisher: Polish Association for Standards in Language Education - PASE. First published: 2008. Book: 94 pages with a CD which contains the audio for the Listening Tasks, the Teacher’s Guide with the transcripts of all the listening activities and the Interactive Review Exercise for each unit. ISBN: 1-2-1 Financial w/ CD: 978-83-926707-1-1 Printed in Poland. Acknowledgements: Special thanks to Mrs Jolanta Urbanik, the reviewer of the books. The publisher, co-publishers and authors are very grateful to all the teachers and students who participated in the piloting phase. Production Credit: Voice Recording and Post-Production Audio by Sparkly In My Rye Media Productions Ltd., Dublin, Ireland: www.simrmedia.com Technical support and the Internet communications by Poznań Technical University, Poland: www.put.poznan.pl Cover design by Miłosz Piróg Cover photo by fotolia.com Design & layout by ACTIS, Piotr Chmura-Cegiełkowski |   |
Unit Aims
| UNIT | LANGUAGE BUILT-UP | SPEAKING | LISTENING | WRITING | READING |
| 1 FINANCE page 5 | Financial terms. Idiomatic expressions. | Making a proposal. Responding to a proposal. Speaking about meetings. | Listening for specific details and note taking. Listening for gist. | Writing a reply to an email. Writing the minutes of a meeting. | Reading for detailed understanding. Reading and reordering information. |
| 2 SHARES AND THE STOCKMARKET page 15 | Expressions for describing figures, stocks and shares and trends. | Learning how to begin a presentation and how to present figures and describe treads. | Listening for specific information. Listening for detail. | Writing an email requesting information. | Reading for gist and matching the headings with the paragraphs. Reading for detail. |
| 3 TAXATION page 27 | Built-up of language related to newspaper headlines. Speaking about tax in your country. | Speaking about corporation tax. Learning to paraphrase. | Listening gist and for specific detail. | Writing a summary. Complete a Tax Refund Application Form. | Reading for detail. Reading and gap fill. |
| 4 MONEY MANAGEMENT AND INVESTMENT page 41 | Formal and informal language in emails Learning expressions for interrupting politely. Review of reported speech. | Speaking on the phone. Speaking about an annual report. | Listening for general gist and specific detail. Listening for specific language / expressions. Listen to check predictions. Listening to complete a table. | Writing an email in a different register. Write a follow-up email. Write an email of confirmation. | Reading for detail. Reading for language. Reading for general gist. |
| 5 BANKING page 54 | Expanding on financial vocabulary. Phrasal verbs used in banking and business. Idiomatic expressions related to banking. Review of relative pronouns. | Speaking and negotiating with banks. Discussing the changes in banking over the last 10 years. Learning how to use the language of persuasion. | Listening for gist and detail. | Writing an informal email. Writing a report. Write a memo. | Reading for vocabulary. Reading and gap fill. Reading for general understanding and note-taking. |
| 6 STARTING YOUR OWN BUSINESS page 68 | Built-up of vocabulary to describe personal qualities. Prefixes commonly found in business language. | Speaking about different types of companies. | Listening first for gist and then for specific detailed information. | Writing an informal letter. | Reading and matching exercise. Identifying the paraphrasing text. |
| 7 BUDGETS & BUDGETING page 82 | Identifying phrasal verbs. Common abbreviations in business. | Speaking about gene therapy and medical breakthroughs. Making a presentation. Debating an issue. | Listening for detail. Listening to complete the table. Listening to check predictions. Listening to a telephone conversation. | Writing a PowerPoint slide. Writing an email to a PA. Writing a memo. | Reading about budgeting for comment and discussion. Reading for detail. |
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