Business Spotlight Audio 4/2010

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. Double life (p. 6)
3. Something’s fishy (p. 8)

The View from Here
4. Is the World Cup good for South Africa? (p. 34)

Business Short Story
5. Laughing out loud (p. 78)

Intercultural Communication
6. Professional cultures (p. 26)

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

Dialogue
8. Sports psychologist Victor Thompson (p. 32)

Insight   
9. Business news with Tania Higgins

THE EXERCISES

 10. Introduction

Test
11. Exercise: business idioms using body parts (p. 12)

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

Business Skills
Ken Taylor on leading internationally (p. 36)
13. Dialogue: a complex project
14. Exercise: summarizing what was said
15. Exercise: managing diversity

Grammar
16. Exercise: using “much” and “many” (p. 73)

Skill Up!
17. Exercise: talking about your qualities  (Skill Up!, p. 14)

Technology
18. Exercise: writing numbers (p. 68)

On the Line
Ken Taylor on listening actively (p. 43)
19. Exercise: repeating key words
20. Exercise: asking open questions

21. Conclusion