Market Leader 3rd Edition Extra - Pre-intermediate - Business English Course Book

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Market Leader 3rd Edition Extra (Pre-intermediate) provides business English learning through structured units covering careers, companies, selling, great ideas, stress, and entertaining. Each unit combines discussion tasks, listening and reading texts, focused language work (e.g., modals, verb-noun combinations, tenses, word partnerships), and practical speaking skills such as telephoning, negotiations, meetings, and presentations. A case study and writing activities support self-assessment with real business scenarios and communication objectives.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

FormatPDF

Pages12

Reading Time30 min

AccessFree to download

Unit 1 Careers

Unit 2 Companies

Unit 3 Selling

Unit 4 Great Ideas

Unit 5 Stress

Unit 6 Entertaining

Unit 7 New Business

Unit 8 Marketing

Unit 9 Planning

Unit 10 Managing People

3rd Edition Extra with business skills lessons and self-assessment Pre-intermediate MARKETLEADER Business English Course Book David Cotton David Falvey Simon Kent | | DISCUSSION | TEXTS | LANGUAGE WORK | SKILLS | CASE STUDY | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | UNIT 1
CAREERS
page 6
→ | Talk about your
career plan | Listening:An interview with
the Finance Director of a TV
company
Reading:Facebook
profile‘could damage
job prospects'-
Telegraph | Career moves
Modals 1:ability,
requests and offers | Telephoning:
making contact | YouJuice:Decide
on the successful
candidate forajob
Writing:e-mail | | | | | | | | | UNIT 2
COMPANIES | Talk about
companies | Reading:India:Tata's search
for a new CEO-Financial
Times | Describing companies
Present simple and | Presenting your
company | Dino Conti lce Cream:
Decide on the best
way to invest in a | | →page 14 | | Is John Lewis the best
company in Britain to work
for?-Guardian | present continuous | | company's future
Writing:proposal | | | | Listening:An interview with
the CEO of a food company | | | | | UNIT 3
SELLING
→
page 22 | Talk about
shopping habits | Listening:An interview with
the Director of Marketing of
a TV shopping channel
Reading:Women on top in
new sales industry survey-
web article | Making sales
Modals 2:must,need
to,have to,should | Negotiating:
reaching
agreement | A partnership
agreement:Work on a
proposed partnership
between a jet charter
company anda hotel
group
Writing:letter | WORKING ACROSS CULTURES:1 SAYING 'NO'POLITELY→page 30REVISION UNIT Apage 32BUSINESS SKILLS:1.1 INTERVIEWS;1.2 PRESENTATIONS | | DISCUSSION | TEXTS | LANGUAGE WORK | SKILLS | CASE STUDY | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | UNIT 4
GREAT IDEAS
page 36
→I | Discuss what
makes a great
idea | Listening:An interview with a
researcher
Reading:Who needs
translators?-web article
Safer cycling-web article
Going for gold-web article | Verb and noun
combinations
Past simple and
past continuous | Successful
meetings | The new attraction:
Decide on the best
idea for a new
attraction
Writing:report | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | UNIT 5
STRESS
→page 44 | Discuss stressful
situations and
activities | Listening:An interview with
the Director of Marketing at
a health consultancy
Reading:Over half of business
owners feeling increasingly
stressed-web article | Stress in the workplace
Past simple and
present perfect | Participating in
discussions | Davies-Miller
Advertising:Suggest
ways of reducing
stress amongst staff
Writing:report | | | | | | | | | UNIT 6
ENTERTAINING
→page 52 | Discuss
corporate
entertaining | Listening:An interview
with the Chief Executive of
a corporate entertainment
company
Reading:Interview with three
corporate entertainment experts | Eating and drinking
Multiword verbs | Socialising:
greetings and
small talk | Organising a
conference:Choose
the location for a
sales conference
Writing:e-mail | | | | | | | | | WORKING ACROSS CULTURES:2 DOING BUSINESS INTERNATIONALLY | | | | | →page 60 | | REVISION UNIT B | | | | | →page 62 | | BUSINESS SKILLS:2.1 SMALL TALK;2.2 MEETINGS | | | | | →page A5 | WRITING FILE →page 126 ACTIVITY FILE →page 132 | | DISCUSSION | TEXTS | LANGUAGE WORK | SKILLS | CASE STUDY | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | UNIT 7
NEW BUSINESS
page 66 | Disc

FAQs

What learning activities are included in each unit?

Each unit includes discussion tasks, listening and reading texts, language work focused on key grammar and vocabulary, and targeted skills such as telephoning, meetings, and presentations, plus case study work and writing.

Which business topics does the book cover in its units?

The units cover careers, companies, selling, great ideas, stress, entertaining, new business, marketing, planning, and managing people, supported by business communication scenarios.

What language areas are emphasized at the pre-intermediate level?

Language work includes items such as modals (ability, requests, offers; and must/need to/have to/should), tenses (past simple, past continuous, present perfect), verb-noun combinations, word partnerships, and practical question and planning structures.

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