Introduction

The purpose of these materials is to create rich contexts to learn language in. Words, collocations, phrases, sentences, and questions relevant to the everyday activities of businessmen are the building materials. The structures built include topics, situations, stories, case studies to provide a rich imaginary narrative context in which to practice language. Discussion questions that only aim to tap the students own experiences are always going to be limiting. Stories involving fictional characters that end with a problem or dilemma to be solved give students more hooks to hang their thoughts on, to relate their lives to, and generate conversation from.