One approach to teaching business French is to familiarize students with true business situations and to help students realize that business interacts with a body of laws and within a political and socioeconomic environment. On the first day of class, students are divided into groups of two or three, and each group becomes an enterprise with a name, purpose, and legal status. This technique removes student inhibition. In one exercise, students act as legal consultants to an enterprise. Another exercise consists of a mock arbitration procedure played out in groups of three students: a consumer who has purchased a defective automobile, a dealership representative, and an arbitrator. In another activity, students write or act out angry consumer complaints to a customer service department. A selling technique contest has also been undertaken. Activities incorporating the learning of new technology and vocabulary include a simulated telephone conversation with a telecommunications representative, and the writing of extraordinary accident reports using insurance-related language. Oral reports on topics taken from current French magazines are assigned, and a class debate about nationalization policy has been held. Written assignments include correspondence and a marketing study. (MSE)