摘要：The Business Result series from Oxford University Press consists of five task-based course books that are applicable to most contexts of international business English teaching. The series is suitable for both general business English courses and for courses that prepare students for specific standardized exams, such as Cambridge University’s Business English Certificates or Trinity College’s Spoken English for Work exams. The universal application of the series is a direct result of the alignment to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The Elementary book advances from A1 to A2, the Pre-Intermediate from A2 to B1, the Intermediate from B1 to B2, the Upper-Intermediate from B2 to C1, and the Advanced from C1 to C2. Yet unlike many recent language textbooks published in Europe, in which teaching to standards is discernibly forced, in this case the alignment to CEFR almost seems natural. Where many textbooks based on CEFR tend toward formalist and functional approaches that lose sight of the importance of sustained communicative context, Business Result almost seamlessly integrates the CEFR standards into units of interconnected communicative tasks.
