Business Spotlight Audio 4/2009

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.     Lawyers wanted
3.     Dim outlook for diamonds (p. 8)    2:31

Careers

4.     Career coach Aliya Ali-Afzal (p. 54)

Going Green   

5.    Vocabulary test (p. 10)

The View from Here

6.    Blowing in the wind (p. 16)

Street Life

7.    What are you doing to “go green”? (p. 15)

Intercultural Communication

8.    Robert Gibson on socializing (p. 32)

Office Talk

9.    The Maine Event (p. 81)

Management

10.    Archbishop Desmond Tutu (p. 64)

Insight

11.    Business news with Tania Higgins

THE EXERCISES

12.    Introduction

Telephoning

Ken Taylor on answering the phone (p. 51)
13.    Dialogue: a bad example
14.    Dialogue/Exercise: a good example

False Friends

15.    Exercise: translation (p. 74)

Business Skills

Ken Taylor on being positive at work (p. 42)
16.    Exercise: using positive statements
17.    Dialogue: asking for support    4:29

Exercise: asking for support

18.    Exercise: responding to feedback

Say It in Style

19.    Exercise: expressing probability (p. 50)

Authentic English

20.    Exercise: rephrasing idioms (p. 85)

21.    Conclusion