To be ready to use English in the workplace, students need to: be exposed to a variety of business and workplace situations; build confidence in using English communicatively for work. Get Ready for International Business helps students prepare to use English in the workplace by: exposing them to English being used in a range of different business contexts; offering a variety of different accents in the listening exercises and the cross-cultural Viewpoints sections that feature a wide range of people talking about aspects of business and culture; focusing on developing learners" listening and speaking skills through carefully graded activities; explicitly teaching key conversation strategies to help them manage conversations in business settings; providing In business tasks that allow students to use the language studied in business simulations to develop their own professional language skills; supporting grammatical usage with a Grammar reference section.