Helpless in business english ? here is the solution” is a response to needs analysis done on some students and teachers of the higher institute of accounting and commerce at bizerta : isccb. -this book is intended to be a stimulating testing handbook which contains a collection of exam samples based on varied tasks divided into six different thematic units. each unit is composed of four tests including : reading + comprehension questions + language : grammar and vocabulary + writing tasks. - reading part : contains testing reading skill of authentic articles related to the students’ field of interest taken from business newspapers and business books. in addition, we find comprehension questions to test the general understating of the text through understanding main points part which is usually very short, based on one or two questions. the very specific meaning is tested through understanding details part which consists of true/false questions .and other questions concerning meaning. - grammatical exercises : based on a business context to enhance the learning. moreover, there are questions related to the text that consists in determining pronouns, to test both assimilation of sentences to sensiblise learners to the importance of coherence and cohesion or an editing part. second, a productive part. because the majority of students “hate” this part, we try to facilitate it through detailed instructions, varied tasks thought of to be needed and generally non practiced enough. who is this book for ? even though it is mainly designed for students at business schools, as well as persons and businesspersons who need english at their workplace because they could use it for self assessments, this book could also help colleagues who want to enrich their exercises while teaching and take the units separately as a textbook. - personal reading, students, teachers and anyone who wants to test his / her level in english enlarge and rehearse her / his knowledge of business english. what the book contains ? the book contains the following elements : -six units for testing : with marks given to each question. -full answer key for all the exercises in this book. therefore, the book could be used for personal study and self assessment. - writing file : - grammar review : helps in doing the exercises, explain certain use of tenses or specificity very often asked for by students and seen as problematic. - list of irregular verbsgrammatical rules and further understanding of the text, providing a known context to the grammar exercises. - vocabulary : is tackled in the form of providing definitions of words not only from the text in question but also from jargon related to finance, accounting, marketing, banking & managing issues mainly. exercises of making collocations elaborate this more. - writing exercises : based on different kinds of business correspondences. the writing task is divided into : first, either reordering
