In Company. Teacher's Book. Pre-Intermediate Level - Tapa blanda

The second edition Student's Books contain clearly defined topic and skills-based units, real-world tasks and more case studies, all which are instantly relevant to everyday business life development. The CD-ROM has an interactive glossary and class audio as MP3 downloads.

Written by: Helena Gomm started her teaching career in Japan where she worked for six years, teaching first in a high school and then in a junior college in Nagasaki. Helena has also taught in the UK and worked as an editor and publisher for a leading publishing company for many years. She is now a freelance editor and writer of ELT materials and performs in her local theatre group. She has written several titles for Macmillan including teacher's material for the In Company series and has also written for Longman, Langenscheidt and Orient Blackswan. Helena Gomm has been editor of English Teaching professional since 2001, taking over the editorship from Susan Norman. Contributions by: Simon Clarke lives and works in the Basque Country of northern Spain. Married with two grown-up children, Simon is a director at Lacunza - International House San Sebastian, which provides language services in English, French and Chinese and has over 5,000 students and a teaching staff of over 90. Back in his early career at Lacunza, Simon was part of a two-man team which set up an independent business English unit. They pioneered a Telephone English system of study which is still a popular option for many learners, and has of course developed over the years as technology has changed. The department maintains an excellent reputation with the local business community, working with companies and institutions as well as private individuals. Gina Cuciniello. Paul Dummett. Paul Emmerson works as a writer, teacher, website owner, and teacher trainer. He lives in Worthing, on the south coast of England. As a writer, he is author of the Macmillan titles Email English, Business Grammar Builder (2 levels), Business Vocabulary Builder (2 levels) and Business English Handbook. He also has two titles with CUP: Business English Frameworks and Five Minute Activities for Business English. When he is not writing Paul teaches at The English Language Centre, Brighton. He also runs a two-week teacher training course there twice a year, every July and October. He does occasional teacher training overseas on a private basis. Jon Hird divides his time between writing ELT materials and teaching in Oxford UK, where he has taught for about twenty years now. During this time Jon has also taught in Paris and FYR Macedonia. He has been involved in several ELT courses, including co-writing two levels of the Move coursebook series, writing and contributing to various components of Inside Out and New Inside out, including the Inside Out Grammar Companions, and writing resource material for the business course In Company. Jon has also written and contributed to a number of ELT grammar books, resource books and Internet-based writing projects. He enjoys the challenge, in both his writing and teaching, of trying to make classroom activities as meaningful, engaging and as enjoyable as possible. He particularly enjoys giving talks and workshops in different countries and meeting the teachers and students who may, or may not, use his books. Mark Powell is one of the world's leading Business English communications trainers and the senior partner in a specialist language training consultancy based in Barcelona. In his 20-year career he has worked with a wide range of Global Fortune 500 companies as diverse as Nestle, BMW and Credit Suisse. Mark is also a director of a publisher of intercultural communication and language games based in Munich. A dynamic and popular speaker on the international conference circuit, for the last 10 years Mark has also been a top trainer for the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Certificate in Teaching English for Business, training more than 500 intercultural communication professionals from 20 different countries. He also offers the world's only Certificate in One-to-One Language Coaching. Mark's best-selling language and business skills books, including the intermediate and upper intermediate levels of Macmillan's highly successful In Company series, are regularly in use at Pepsi, BP, Citibank, Yahoo, Daimler Chrysler and Exxon Mobil, amongst many others. Mark's main interest, outside Business English, is in all aspects of live performance from classical rhetoric, voice coaching and drama training to Elizabethan theatre, storytelling and stand-up comedy. Nicholas Sheard. Jeremy Taylor. Jon Wright.