Market Leader is an elementary level business English course for businesspeople and students of business English. It has been developed in association with the Financial Times, one of the leading sources of business information in the world. It consists of 12 units based on topics of great interest to everyone involved in international business. The new edition features new authentic texts and listenings throughout, reflecting the latest trends in the business world. If you are in business, the course will greatly improve your ability to communicate in English in a wide range of business situations. If you are a student of business, the course will develop the communication. | LEADER ELEMENTARY BUSINESS ENGLISH David Cotton David Falvey Simon Kent FINANCIAL TIMES World business newspaper. Pearson Education Limited Edinburgh Gate Harlow Essex CM20 2jE England and Associated Companies throughout the world Pearson Education Limited 2004 The right of David Cotton David Falvey and Simon Kent to be identified as authors of this Work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act i 88. All rights reserved no part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the Publishers. First published 2004 Fifth impression 2006 ISBN-13 978-0-582-77327-1 ISBN-10 0582-77327-X Set in MetaPlus Printed in China GCC 05 Acknowledgements Special thanks from the authors to Chris Hartley Stephen Nicholl and Diane Winkleby for their contributions to the course above and beyond editorial guidance. The authors would like to thank the following for their invaluable help during the project Melanie 8ryant Paul Cousins Ian Lebeau Peter Falvey Sarah Falvey Gisele Cotton Lynne Rustecki Jeremy Keeley Liz Moore Gareth Rees Richard Falvey Andy Levy and all the staff and students of the English Language Centre London Metropolitan University. Also Peter Strutt for his invaluable help with the Grammar reference section and Irene Barrall for the Teacher s Resource Book. The authors would like to thank Kate Goldrick Cara Furman Jonathan Barnard Eddi Edwards Andrew Thorpe and the Longman team for their invaluable support. The authors and publishers are very grateful to the following people who agreed to be interviewed for the recorded material in this book Richard Cable Martina Mertes Anna Nabirukhina and Kevin Warren. To ensure good sound quality interviews have been rerecorded under studio conditions with actors speaking from the original interview .
