Business Spotlight Audio 4/2008

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. Good timing (p. 6)
3. Changing places (p. 8)

Global Business

4. Air traffic controller Dean Urquhart (p. 22)

Office Blues

5. Kathrin Enke (p. 13)

Head-to-Head

6. Can the e-book beat the printed book? (p. 26)

Intercultural Communication

7. Robert Gibson on ethnic marketing (p. 36)

Office Talk

8. The Maine Event (p. 92)

Careers

9. Alpha advice from Christopher Flett (p. 58)

Insight

10. Business news with Inez Sharp

THE EXERCISES

11. Introduction

Test

Ken Taylor on talking about your job (p. 14)

12. Exercise: pay vocabulary
13. Exercise: working conditions

False Friends

14. Exercise: translation (p. 84)

Business Skills

Ken Taylor on being a good listener (p. 46)

15. Dialogue/exercise: using keywords
16. Exercise: supporting the speaker
17. Exercise: learning to listen

Grammar

18. Exercise: tag questions (p. 90)

Telephoning

Ken Taylor on telephone conferences (p. 93)

19. Exercise: describing body language
20. Exercise: speaking with enthusiasm

Authentic English

21. Dialogue/exercise: communcation strategies (p. 96)
22. Conclusion