Each lesson is a stand-alone, fast-track unit to competence in a particular skill that businessprofessionals will meet in their everyday working life. Topics and texts have been chosen to involve,entertain and provoke students into lively discussion, as well as to contextualise key target language.Real-world tasks encourage learners to sharpen their communication skills and draw on their ownexperiences at work, while a great deal of attention is devoted to helping learners boost their lexicalrange. Grammar is introduced in a practical business context and is now incorporated into the relevant unit along with the workbook sections.