Unit 1 Understanding Business
Part I Theme-Based Reading
  Text A The Meaning of “Business”
  Text B Factors of Production
Part II Reading Skills
Basic Ideas About Reading
Part III Reading Practice
Section A Reading Comprehension
Section B Blanked Cloze

Unit 2 Companies
Part I Theme-Based Reading
  Text A The Companies Around Us
  Text B Private Companies and Public Companies
Part II Reading Skills
Dictionary Use
Part III Reading Practice
Section A Reading Comprehension
Section B Blanked Cloze

Unit 3 Time Management
Part I Theme-Based Reading
  Text A Control of Your Life Starts with Planning
  Text B Making the Most of Priorities
Part II Reading Skills
Word Part Clues to Meaning: Important Prefixes
  Part III Reading Practice
Section A Reading Comprehension
Section B Blanked Cloze

Unit 4 Business Communication
Part I Theme-Based Reading
  Text A Successful Business Communication—It Starts at the Beginning
  Text B Effective Communication
Part II Reading Skills
Word Part Clues to Meaning: Important Roots
Part III Reading Practice
Section A Reading Comprehension
Section B Blanked Cloze

Unit 5 People
Part I Theme-Based Reading
  Text A Bill Gates
  Text B Fourteen Character Traits of a Good Businessperson
Part II Reading Skills
Word Part Clues to Meaning: Important Suffixes
  Part III Reading Practice
Section A Reading Comprehension
Section B Blanked Cloze

Unit 6 Job Interviews
Part I Theme-Based Reading
  Text A Do’s and Don’ts of Interviews
  Text B How to Be a Compelling Candidate Who Stands out in the Crowd
Part II Reading Skills
Context Clues to Word Meaning
Part III Reading Practice
Section A Reading Comprehension
Section B Blanked Cloze

Unit 7 Culture
Part I Theme-Based Reading
  Text A Corporate Culture
  Text B Knowing About Cultural Differences
Part II Reading Skills
Reading by Phrase
  Part III Reading Practice
Section A Reading Comprehension
Section B Blanked Cloze

Unit 8 Products
Part I Theme-Based Reading
  Text A Aspects of Products
  Text B Too Many Recalls
Part II Reading Skills
Understanding Topics
  Part III Reading Practice
Section A Reading Comprehension
Section B Blanked Cloze

Unit 9 Brands
Part I Theme-Based Reading
  Text A What Is a Brand?
  Text B A Smiling War
Part II Reading Skills
Predicting
Part III Reading Practice
Section A Reading Comprehension
Section B Blanked Cloze

Unit 10 Business Success
Part I Theme-Based Reading
  Text A Seven Habits of Business Success
  Text B www.Yahoo.com
Part II Reading Skills
Finding the Stated Main Idea
Part III Reading Practice
Section A Reading Comprehension
Section B Blanked Cloze

Unit 11 Starting a New Business
Part I Theme-Based Reading
  Text A Please Turn to Chapter 11
  Text B The Beanie Baby Business
Part II Reading Skills
Finding Main Ideas: Implied Main Ideas
Part III Reading Practice
Section A Reading Comprehension
Section B Blanked Cloze

Unit 12 Creativity
Part I Theme-Based Reading
  Text A Creativity at the Workplace
  Text B Creativity of the Internet Era
Part II Reading Skills
Making Outlines
Part III Reading Practice
Section A Reading Comprehension
Section B Blanked Cloze

Vocabulary

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