This teacher's guide on basic business is one of a series of six designed for the employment orientation program for special needs students at the Gloucester County Vocational-Technical School in Sewell, New Jersey. (The series includes laundry, hospitality, sewing, basic business, foods, and beauty culture.) Each guide contains lesson plans consisting of objectives, subject matter covered, audiovisual aids, demonstrations, student activities, and evaluation suggestions. This guide contains a foreword, objectives of the basic business unit, references, charts and masters for projectuals, and 33 lesson plans. Examples of the lesson plan topics are the world of business, the telephone, filing, mail room, adding machines, calculators, payroll deductions, IBM selectric typewriter, rules for using numbers, fluid duplicator, photocopying, thermofax, velo-binder, dictating machine, typing letters, cash register, running the VICA store, the library aide, field trips, and jobs for the school. (HD)