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Currently, Business English (BE) major is already open for undergraduates in some universities, as been a branch of English for Special Purpose (ESP), which requiring high teaching standers both in theoretical and practical parts. Therefore, the researches of its teaching theories are of catholic concern. In recent years, with foreign investment pour into China and the commercial increasing demands for talents, BE courses are not simply for improving language level, as far as to introduce a concept of Business Management and working attitude even ways of dealing with foreigners including corporation style and their habits. In a way, they should be contained in cultures.BE becomes the focus of society and attracts great concern, which results in being one of most popular professions in universities. And upon this score, on the one hand, it could reflect the uptrend of demanding for complex English talents, on the other, it might implicate several irrational factors in such wave. However, most courses are mainly on knowledge as the teaching goal, paying attention to the memory of the knowledge, understanding, and application of thinking skills which qualified by the input of knowledge, rarely involved in the field of analysis, such as evaluation and creativity,Aims of this paper are working for introducing Project-based teaching method into BE, and the purposes are more than just combining theory and practice, but focusing on the overall development of people, concerned about students’growing in projects step by step, hence this curriculum are more holistic and transferable. Taken BE under a distinctive feature of one genre, apply the contents of business activities in the form of projects. However, the temporary lodging of BE is language learning through projects. During this process, students will cultivate themselves to be independent and responsible. Also social relationships, linguistic diversity in the specific condition, body language and discourse will be well developed.
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