English for ...
Various Authors
Express Publishing
English for Emails
ISBN 978-0-19-457912-4
English for Socializing
ISBN 978-0-19-457939-1
English for Marketing and Advertising
ISBN 978-0-19-457918-6
Want to learn some basic small talk techniques? Do you dream of a compact and up-to-date insight to email writing? Or maybe your new student needs help with marketing and advertising language. In any of the above cases Oxford new Express Series might be exactly what you're looking for.
This new series goes under the heading Business English, but after having browsed through some of them I dare say the target group is definitely wider than merely the students of business English. And what is more, these half course half handbooks offer multiple ways of use, from a class course book to a self-study aid. The language level is situated somewhere between B1 and C1 with the English for Marketing and Advertising presenting the most specialized lexis. My own favourite is English for Emails, which will very likely end up as a dog-eared handbook on my desk corner. As classroom material it offers wall-to-wall exercises and approaches. All the six chapters of the book examined and the conference transcripts were mainly from Britain. These would need to be supplemented by examples from other countries to provide a more representative picture. But altogether I'd recommend this book to any reflective teacher who wants to know more about what is really going on with English. You'll have to not mind reading pages of text full of acronyms, though, EAL (English as an Acronymic Language) perhaps being yet another variety.........
Sarah Emch-Jones