What book is good to buy to learn basic business English?

Ten mainstream teaching materials PK: Learning Business English

1. "MARKET LEADER Experience Business English Comprehensive Tutorial"

Content introduction:

< p>The "Experience Business English" series of teaching materials provides learners with a new way of learning, that is, learning business English through experience, thereby improving their ability to use English for business communication. This series of teaching materials is adapted from the Market Leader and Powerhouse series of teaching materials published by Pearson Education Publishing Group. It consists of "Comprehensive Tutorial", "Listening and Listening Tutorial", "Synchronous Exercises", "Teacher's Book" and supporting Composed of audio and video recordings, etc.

Features of teaching materials: Introduce international business activities into the classroom and experience the real business world. Role-playing and case studies lead to in-depth experiential learning, and rigorous teaching design lays a solid foundation for experiential learning. Rich teaching resources provide strong support for experiential teaching.

Comments:

As an imported teaching material from an established business English brand, it retains the pragmatism characteristics of Americans very well. Market Leader( ) focuses on application, especially the case analysis of each unit, which is very conducive to experiential teaching. In addition, its articles are all from FT, which not only provides refined content, but also effectively guarantees the breadth and popularity of its applications. This series of teaching materials is very suitable for corporate English training tutoring, internal corporate English training and other teaching purposes. The preferred teaching material of Marco Reed, Asia's largest corporate English training tutoring company, is this set of "MARKET LEADER Experience Business English Comprehensive Tutorial". Just watch It has a case teaching design with MBA characteristics. The just-published third edition has many improvements in application fit, which is worth looking forward to.

2. "New Cambridge Business English"

Content introduction:

The Cambridge Business English Certificate (BEC) exam is a new practical exam. It focuses on examining English communication skills in real working environments. It is specially tailored for the majority of business English learners. It has been recognized by many educational institutions and companies around the world and uses it as the English language proficiency threshold for entrance examinations or recruitment.

The "New Cambridge Business English Teacher's Book" adds some content that cannot be retained in the student book due to space limitations, such as detailed teaching notes, answers to exercises, listening text materials and further learning references; it also provides It is a learning activity that is highly concise, full of fun and can be imitated. It is the most ideal choice for newcomers in the workplace and teachers and students.

Comments:

This is what everyone knows as BEC. , there are corresponding exams. The score of the test can represent your ability to use business English. It can be said to be a very good standardized English tutorial. Compared with the "MARKET LEADER Experience Business English Comprehensive Tutorial", it has its own characteristics and is widely used by New Oriental, which also focuses on test-oriented teaching. . However, this teaching material can be said to be standardized both in success and failure. If it is used as a BEC exam book, it is certainly second to none, but for corporate English training and tutoring, the goal is to be practical, fast, and effective. In these aspects, it is far less efficient than Market Leader, so even though it is a widely recognized standardized teaching Materials can only take second place.

If energetic students can master Market Leader and BEC, then business communication will definitely be a piece of cake.

3. "Interchange Cambridge International English Course"

Content introduction:

"Cambridge International English Course" (3rd Edition) (Interchange Third Edition) is A comprehensively revised edition of Cambridge International English. As one of the most popular and influential English speaking courses in the world, "Cambridge International English Course" has promoted the innovation of China's traditional language learning model and accelerated the internationalization process of English teaching in my country. It integrates communicative teaching methods into the entire process of English speaking technology training, emphasizes cultivating language accuracy and fluency in "meaningful communication", and turns language learning into a process that integrates sight, listening and speaking. It provides an all-in-one pleasant experience, so it is widely welcomed by large and medium-sized colleges, English specialty schools and training and coaching institutions.

The new version of "Cambridge International English Course" (3rd Edition) more comprehensively embodies the latest international English speaking teaching methods, integrating communicative teaching methods and multiple intelligence teaching concepts throughout the entire process of language technology training. Among them, it is more suitable for cultivating students' communication skills.

Comments:

This book is the best English speaking training and tutoring teaching material currently on the market, with progressive levels, especially suitable for Chinese spoken English learners. If teachers can closely follow the teacher's manual in terms of teaching methods and incorporate some corresponding methods into teaching, the training and coaching of students will have an immediate effect.

Using this set of teaching materials for corporate English training and tutoring is easy to accept and has significant results. However, it is at a different level than the first two sets of teaching materials. It is very suitable as corporate English training and tutoring teaching materials for general service industries such as hotels and logistics. , but if it involves international trade, finance and foreign exchange and other more cautious and complex corporate English training tutoring, it has greater limitations. This is why such good teaching materials are tragically only ranked third.

4. Cambridge Standard English Tutorial "TOUCHSTONE"

Content Introduction

"Cambridge Standard English Tutorial" (Touchstone) is a set of English courses for young people and adults Professional English tutorials designed by learners with breakthrough and innovative significance. This series of tutorials is based on the research on the Cambridge International Corpus of North American English and is co-written by well-known Cambridge University Press experts and authors Michael McCarthy, Jeanne McCarten and Helen Sandiford.

This set of tutorials is divided into four levels. Each level includes a student book (with Self-study Audio CD/CD-ROM), exercise book, teacher’s book, video activity book, supporting classroom listening CD and Video DVD discs, etc., comprehensively cover the teaching needs of English from beginner to intermediate and advanced levels.

The course settings of "Cambridge Standard English Course" (Touchstone) are coherent and coherent. The teaching design is simple and clear, the content is novel, the topics are fashionable, and the teaching materials are rich and diverse, covering viewing, listening, speaking, online interaction, etc. a form of teaching. Teachers' books take teachers' daily teaching needs as the starting point to design innovative teaching plans that are closest to teaching details. The entire set of tutorials is easy to teach and learn, and has wide applicability. It is the best American English teaching solution for college teaching and social training.

Comments:

This book is just as its name suggests, so it is listed in fourth place. It is also a masterpiece from Cambridge Press, and is very relevant in reading and listening. However, because the content is rich, it seems complicated and numerous at the same time. Not only does the teaching method of the teacher have a high threshold, but also the students' acceptance ability is a great test, so it can basically be classified into the more local business teaching of the English department. Use books. If the teacher is average, then the value of the book itself cannot be exerted. It is a good teaching book for teachers, but it is not suitable for students to study on their own. This book is more suitable for teachers with good English proficiency to use as a teaching book for companies that send expatriate employees to English-speaking countries for management and more business work. The gold content of this book is very worthy of recognition.

5. "Longman Contemporary English Course" Cutting Edge

Content introduction:

"Longman Contemporary English Course" (Cutting Edge) is a very A recommended comprehensive English course. "Longman Contemporary English Course" is a new English course jointly launched by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press and Longman Publishing Company in August 2019. This set of tutorials adopts the most advanced and reasonable foreign language teaching concepts and methods, with the purpose of improving learners' language application ability, with communicative functions as the standard, situational teaching as the core, and grammar as the clue, leading the trend of teaching English as a foreign language. . Its authors, Sarah Cunningham and Peter Moor, are senior English training tutors. They have taught English in more than a dozen countries in the past two decades and have accumulated rich English language teaching experience. They compiled this set of teaching materials through painstaking research. , has been widely used in various countries and regions for a long time. Now this set of teaching materials has become one of the famous teaching materials loved and trusted by the majority of English learners in various countries. The long-term practical foundation of teaching in various countries and continuous improvement and revision determine that the content of "Longman Contemporary English Course" launched this time is comprehensive and novel, the teaching methods keep pace with the times, and the materials are rich, which is more in line with the psychology and psychology of non-native English learners. Learn the rules.

Comments:

Longman should be very familiar to most working people, and its characteristics are still in line with the psychology and learning rules of non-native English learners as described in the introduction. This is the main reason why the Longman brand has long occupied an important position in influencing English learning among our generation. Therefore, based on the learning habits that most people have developed, companies using it as training and coaching teaching materials can be quickly accepted and absorbed by students. The disadvantage of this book is that it is relatively conservative and old-fashioned, and it is not as practical and classic as Market Leader and Cambridge. Therefore, this set of teaching materials is generally rarely used unless it is a long-term and continuous team teaching. But after all, the old face is easy to recognize, so it is not an exaggeration to give it the fifth place.

6. "New Cambridge Life and Business English 365"

Content introduction:

The "New Cambridge Life and Business English 365" series is divided into 3 levels. Mainly aimed at working people, it is a set of fashionable and systematic cutting-edge business English teaching materials that integrate work and life. The original English version won the British Council ELT Book Innovation Award in 2019.

If you need to communicate in English at work and often need to go out on business or meet with guests, then this set of books is suitable for you. It is a set of books that seeks a balance between business, life and leisure, a balance between grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and professional communication methods, and a balance between practical listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Each unit in the book will provide you with the most direct and vivid English knowledge in life and business activities. This is the first volume.

The "New Cambridge Life and Business English 365" Student Book*** consists of 30 small units and 2 review units. According to the needs of expressing and practicing language skills and communication methods, the 30 small units are divided into 3 types, and each 3 units form a small cycle: the purple unit mainly includes listening, grammar and pronunciation; the blue unit includes listening, working Vocabulary and communication methods; the green unit includes vocabulary in social methods, reading, and leisure life. Each unit is accompanied by oral expression exercises, and there is also a sheet of worksheets at the end of each unit. The student's book is mainly used for classroom teaching. It is also accompanied by listening tapes and CDs for classroom activities.

Comments:

This book is very suitable for self-study by some working white-collar workers and some students. It can basically cover common sentences in work, so the expectations are not very high. In this case, low-level corporate English training and tutoring is also one of the better choices. However, it is not very in-depth. For more working people, especially those who often use English, it seems very ineffective. It is always used and discarded quickly. Therefore, this set of books is also It is known as the most affordable and easy-to-put-down set of teaching materials. As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning. This book is relatively easy to get started and deserves recognition, so it is ranked sixth.

7. All-Star English "ALL-STAR"

Content introduction:

The "All-Star English" three-dimensional series of teaching materials was developed by McGraw It is based on the All-Star series of teaching materials published by Hill Company and adapted from the actual practice of English teaching in higher education for Chinese adults. The adapted "All-Star English" series of teaching materials are more in line with the actual needs of English teaching in my country, both in terms of teaching content and teaching methods. It not only provides rare and good teaching materials for adults learning English, but is also suitable for higher vocational colleges. English teaching.

The original book is a teaching material specially written to help adults with low educational levels in the United States (especially foreign immigrants) improve their basic English language skills. The editors are mostly teachers with many years of teaching experience. The technologies covered in the book include: 1) Language technology: listening, speaking, reading, and writing language technology; basic grammar and pronunciation technology, as well as the technology of using and calculating numbers; 2) Language technology that deals with daily life: involving consumption and environmental protection. , family and child rearing, government and community, cooperation, use of resources and services, health and nutrition, interpersonal communication, learning strategies, safety and security, telephone communication, time and currency, transportation and travel, and many other aspects; 3) Labor and employment language technology : Involving many aspects such as applied technology, maintaining employment, job search, etc.

Comments:

This is McGraw-Hill's first book in China. It was selected as seventh because this set of teaching materials combines language and cultural differences. It has its own unique features, which can give employees of the trained enterprise a better sense of cultural introduction and support. However, since this book itself is mainly aimed at foreign immigrants, it is not very suitable for the current Chinese environment in terms of students' threshold, because language learning must be integrated with the environment. Students have a good language environment abroad, so it is quite good to use this book. But there are some shortcomings when used domestically. Even if the integration of language and culture is relatively good, there is still the embarrassment of having no place for heroes. This book is not suitable for self-study.

8. "New Concept English"

Content introduction:

"New Concept English" is a world-famous English tutorial. This edition is the only new edition that has been personally revised by the author in the 30 years since its publication.

This set of classic teaching materials continues to provide readers with a complete, practical and tested English learning system, making it possible for students to master the four basic skills of English - comprehension, speaking, reading and writing. — to maximize their potential. The new version retains a set of basic principles that have made New Concept English a world-famous English course, while also including the following important features.

Comments:

Like Longman, New Concept English is very well-known in China and can be said to be a very comprehensive English teaching material. Due to its high comprehensiveness, more institutions use it not only for oral English training, but also for exam training. There are many folk sayings about the high level achieved by memorizing new concepts. More corporate English training and coaching still need to strengthen the vocabulary of employees. The articles in this book are very representative of the vocabulary consolidation carefully arranged by the editor. Therefore, using it as a teaching material for corporate English training and coaching is sometimes helpless but necessary. choice.

9. "Global English Course"

Publisher: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press

Price: 66 yuan

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Content introduction:

"Global English Tutorial" is a set of English learning and teaching materials introduced and re-constructed by the Foreign Teachers Press from Thomson Publishing Company. This teaching material has the following four features:

A perfect match between English knowledge learning and technical training. Grammar and vocabulary knowledge are included throughout the book and are closely integrated with pronunciation training. Part A of unit focuses on listening and speaking, while part B focuses on reading and writing.

Teaching resources are rich. In addition to the student's book and teacher's book, it also comes with audio tapes, video tutorials and online resources.

Teaching and testing are integrated. The automatic test paper generation software allows teachers to quickly generate various test papers and accurately assess students' learning status in a timely manner.

Focus on cross-cultural communication. The topic and scenario design are mainly based on the American English context, supplemented by the global background, placing English learning in the world cultural environment.

The complete set of tutorials*** is divided into six levels (entry level and level 1 to level 5), which are respectively targeted at adolescents and adult learners with beginner to intermediate and advanced English levels. This tutorial is intended for all types of adult training and coaching schools at all levels, and can also be used by teachers and students in universities and higher vocational colleges.

Comments:

The design of this book is very practical, and the dialogue and listening parts are the highlights. The only flaw is that the design of the teacher's book and the student's book are not well integrated. For corporate English training and tutoring, it is basically group teaching, unlike VIP-style one-on-one teaching. If you don’t understand, you can repeat and correct it several times. Therefore, including it in the company's English training and tutoring teaching materials is limited to its more practical parts. As for the teaching and credit problems that are difficult to solve with this set of teaching materials, we can only use a unified language as much as possible, that is, repeat it in all Chinese or all in English. comminicate. This book can be used as a reference book for daily oral study.

10. "Longman Express Ways"

Content introduction:

Edited by authoritative American English teaching experts Steven J. Molinsky and Bill Bliss, it is a set of A classic English learning tutorial specially written for students from non-English speaking countries around the world. It comprehensively trains listening, speaking, reading and writing, focusing on improving oral skills; it guides you to practice from the simplest daily scenes, from job interviews, receiving customers to talking with authorities and other most modern life topics. It provides "Longman Express English Tutorial" 》In a new context, it teaches you conversation techniques in selecting topics, opening topics, expressing, asking, and responding! Teach you to say your first sentence smoothly and boldly! "Self-study Tutoring Book" provides learners with very rich and practical communication and self-study supplementary materials.

Comments:

This book has been used as a teaching material by New Oriental English speaking classes. The design and layout are also very interesting and practical, but it lacks systematicity. But it is still an excellent book for learning spoken English. The sentences are very authentic and practical, and it is suitable for self-study. It is included in the selection of company English training and tutoring teaching materials because this book can be used as a very short-term corporate training book. When there is not enough objective time and company English oral training and tutoring must be carried out, this set of teaching materials is very useful. It is a good choice and suitable for use as soon as it is finished. However, it is not recommended to use it as a relatively complete training and coaching material. Everyone has to keep an emergency measure at hand, so keep it ready.