Based around a theme, such as performance, trade, and negotiating, this title focuses on real business situations. It includes scenarios inside the workplace as well as social exchanges, and also contains improvised conversations between native and non-native speakers on cassette, helping students to cope with the hesitations and interruptions.

Adrian Wallwork has been teaching English since 1984 in Pisa and London. He began specializing in Business English in 1990 and is the author of three Oxford University Press books in this field. He works freelance for a number of international software houses and is currently realizing his dream project: teaching native-English business people to communicate effectively in English with their non-native colleagues and clients.