Business Spotlight Audio 2/2009

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.     Think pink (p. 8)
3.     Good news (p. 8)

Careers

4.    Professor Robert Garvey on mentoring relationships (p. 58)

Office Blues

5.    Kathrin Enke (p. 11)

Head-to-Head

6.    Should fat people pay for two airplane seats? (p. 26)

Intercultural Communication

7.    Robert Gibson on gender communication (p. 36)

Office Talk

8.    The Maine Event (p. 92)

Management

9.    Executive Eye (p. 73)

Insight

10.   Business news with Inez Sharp

THE EXERCISES

11.    Introduction

Test

Ken Taylor on general English at work (p. 12)
12.     Exercise: key terms of time
13.     Exercise: different word meanings    3:09

False Friends

14.    Exercise: translation (p. 84)

Business Skills

Ken Taylor on setting goals (p. 46)    
15.    Exercise: terms and concepts
16.    Exercise: SMARTER objectives
17.    Exercise: using the SMARTER method

Grammar

18.     Exercises: adjectives  (p. 90)

Telephoning

Ken Taylor on sounding confident (p. 93)
19.    Exercise: avoiding “weak words” 
20.    Dialogue/exercise: saying “no”

Say It in Style

21.    Exercise: success and failure (p. 54)

22.    Conclusion