5/2010

Business Spotlight plus 6/2010

CULTURE CORNER
Dealing with customers from other cultures

EVERYDAY LANGUAGE
In the driver’s seat: watch the road signs

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Getting to know you

With many university courses starting up again, here are some tips to get your semester off to a good start.

Should networking sites be banned?

Start a discussion on whether social networking sites should be banned from the workplace. Two experts from the business world put forward their opposing views on this topic in the article that forms the bases of this lesson.

Head-to-Head

This is easily a full 90-minute lesson which covers speaking skills, listening skills, reading skills, note-taking skills and language analysis. And it's all available in one small package.

Social-networking sites

How to exploit our magazine, audio and exercise booklet in one lesson.

Is it a dream? Inception with Leonardo DiCaprio

After Inception

My daughter wanted to know why I was walking so fast. We were in Barcelona on our way back from the cinema. We were on a high from watching Inception, the film on dreams and thesubconscious with Leonardo DiCaprio, and were discussing the puzzling ending — but that wasn’t the reason I was rushing.

Unterbewusstsein

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sich beeilen

Dealing with complex academic texts

It is important to encourage learners to reflect on why they have done certain exercises in the classroom, thus giving them the tools to become more autonomous in their learning.

That's far too long. Keep it short and sweet next time.

Short forms

Expressions with “short” often have a negative meaning, especially in business contexts. What about short forms?

Short forms: back to the roots

Latin abbreviations are common in English. Find out if you know how to use them correctly in formal business English.

Computer problems

In Skill Up! (4), we focus on the language of computers and IT equipment. Test what you have learned in this short exercise.

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