This curriculum guide consists of materials for use in teaching a course in business English for high school students. Addressed in the individual units of the guide are the following topics: the fundamentals of communication, listening skills, oral communications, telephone communications, information resources, reading and vocabulary, the mechanics of writing, grammar and usage, business reports, business letters and memos, and employment procedures. Each unit contains the following: an introduction, a list of competencies, general performance objectives and goals, specific performance objectives and mastery criteria, methodology guidelines, suggested approaches, a unit outline, specific performance objectives and learning activities relating to the outline, evaluation and testing information, as well as one or more appendixes containing exercises, a unit test, answers to the unit test and lists of resources and supplementary materials. (MN)