Business Spotlight Audio 2/2010

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 an example of our Names and News stories

Contents

THE MAGAZINE

1. Introduction

Names and News
2.     The dog whisperer (p. 6)
3.     Tea crisis (p. 8)

Head-to-Head
4.     Is it OK to lie in a job interview? (p. 24)

Business Short Story
5.    The Cocktail (p. 78)

Intercultural Communication
6.    Robert Gibson on working in virtual teams (p. 30)   

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

Dialogue
8.    Corporate astrologer Faye Cossar (p. 36)

Insight
9.    Business news with Tania Higgins

THE EXERCISES

 10.    Introduction

Customer Service Test
11.    Dialogue/Exercise: offering assistance (p. 12)       
12.    Exercise: dealing with complaints

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

Business Skills
Ken Taylor on conference calls (p. 40)    
14.    Exercise: the three-word method
15.    Exercise: controlling native speakers
16.    Exercise: giving feedback

Grammar
17.    Exercise: adverbs and adjectives (p. 73)   

Say It in Style
18.    Exercise: everyday problems (p. 48)

Skill Up!
Work and job idioms (vocabulary guide p. 16)
19.    Exercises: expressions with “job”
20.    Exercises: expressions with “work”
   
21.    Conclusion