Target group: adult and young adult learners (16+), who want to add specialist language to their general course of studies; students attending vocational schools and technical colleges.

Menschen im Beruf - lively and relevant

Whether they have contact through their job with tourists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland at a holiday resort or happen to be immigrants who are preparing for a future life in Germany as a health-care or medical professional: anyone in a job needs to practise the appropriate language skills relevant for acquiring practical knowledge and experience.

Specialist language helps to perfect specialist knowledge!

Our series Menschen im Beruf teaches the specific language required for different vocations, e.g. tourism, nursing and medicine.

Great emphasis is placed on the communicative skills required for each vocational context. Specialist vocabulary and frequently used expressions and language are practiced systematically: real situations taken from daily life at work are presented in lively dialogues and a series of authentic listening and reading texts.

Practically relevant exercises make learning less monotonous and teaching more dynamic. The coursbooks with their attractive full-colour design include cds with the listening texts - in addition all specialist language has been recorded for listening and speaking practice and is available as a MP3 download.

A teacher's manual is available on the Internet and gives teachers valuable tips on how to organise and manage the teaching process with relevance to the specialist language involved.

The ideal specialist-language supplement

Menschen im Beruf is suitable - given the necessary previous knowledge of the language - as course material in its own right for purely specialist courses or can be used in conjunction with any other general language coursebook of level A1 - B1 e.g. as supplementary material for Menschen. The language progression in Menschen im Tourismus and Menschen in der Pflege is exactly the same as that in Menschen - thus enabling general and specialist language to be combined in ideal fashion!

Training of skills for the professional life

The series »Menschen im Beruf« is completed by volumes for training of skills that play an important role in everyday life of most professions: telephone training, writing training, job application training and training for meetings and presentations.