Business Spotlight Audio 1/2010

Business Spotlight Audio offers more than 70 minutes of texts, dialogues, language exercises and interviews relating to the current Business Spotlight magazine. Improve your language and communication skills by listening to speakers from around the world.

Listen to one of our Names and News stories

Contents

THE MAGAZINE

1.    Introduction

Names and News
2.    Making connections (p. 6)
3.    Salt of the earth (p. 8)

Intercultural Communication
4.    Differences in working with the British and Americans (p. 28)

My Way
5.    Would you use a matchmaker to find a partner? (p. 58)

Careers
6.    Shirley Crowell on taking a sabbatical (p. 52)

Management
7.    Executive Eye (p. 65)

Office Talk
8.    The Maine Event (p. 81)

Technology
9.    Innovations (p. 70)

Insight
10.  Business news with Tania Higgins

THE EXERCISES

11.    Introduction

Trade Fairs
12.    Dialogue/Exercise: who does what? (p. 12)

False Friends
13.    Exercise: translation (p. 74)

Business Skills
Ken Taylor on internal consulting (p. 40)
14.  Dialogue: meeting the client
15.  Exercise: defining the contract
16.  Dialogue/Exercise: gathering information

Grammar
17.  Exercise: place prepositions (p. 80)

Telephoning
Ken Taylor on dealing with angry callers (p. 49)
18.  Dialogue: a bad example
19.  Exercise: the five-point plan
20.  Dialogue: using the five-point plan

Vocabulary
21.  Exercise: the post room (p. 72)

22.  Conclusion