Business Spotlight Audio 3/2010

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. Flocking to help (p. 7) 
3. What’s cooking? (p. 6)   

Head-to-Head
4. Should you tip even if the service is bad? (p. 20)

Short Story
5. Full moon (p. 78)

Intercultural Communication
6. The car industry in China (p. 26)

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

Management
8. The Zildjian family business (p. 56)

Insight
9. Business news with Tania Higgins

THE EXERCISES

 10. Introduction

Customer Service TestLanguage
11. Exercise: money and banking terms (Skill Up!, p. 6)    
12. Exercise: practising money terms

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

Meeting Point
Ken Taylor on responding to ideas (p. 46)    
14. Dialogue: expressing opinions
15. Exercises: agree or disagree?

Grammar
16. Exercise: multiword verbs (p. 73)

Authentic English
17. Dialogue/Exercise: using “say” and“talk” (p. 85)

Skill Up!
Small talk about the weather (Skill Up!, p. 20)
18. Exercise: weather vocabulary
19. Exercises: weather idioms

Say It in Style
20. Dialogue/Exercise: saying goodbye (p. 44)

21. Conclusion