Business Update provides students with the English skills they need for business, using a carefully planned combination of task-based and multifunctional practice. It teaches specialist vocabulary and provides authentic business scenarios in which skills can be practised. The approach to learning prepares students to deal with everyday office life, such as telephoning, working with facts and figures, taking orders and dealing with customer enquiries.

The Workbook comprises of 15 companion units that have follow-up activities which practise skills such as reading, writing, listening, vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar. There is a quiz in each unit to help students monitor their progress.