Business Spotlight Audio 5/2010

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

1.    Introduction

Names and News
2.     Holiday haters    
3.     Sweet dreams are made of gelato       

Head-to-Head
4.    Should social-networking sites be banned at work?   

Intercultural Communication
5.    Working with Mexicans

Short Story
6.    Survival Rules

Careers
7.    Linda Duxbury on multigenerational workplaces

Office Talk
8.    The Maine Event

Insight
9.    Business news with Tania Higgins        

10.    Introduction to the exercises       

Test
11.    Exercise: what’s the short form?   

Business Skills
Ken Taylor on learning to network     
12.     Exercise: check your attitude        
13.     Exercise: a soft or hard approach?     
14.     Dialogue/exercise: connecting with people

False Friends
15.     Exercise: translation   

Vocabulary
Ken Taylor on shop vocabulary     
16.     Exercise: buying a sweater        

Say It in Style
17.    Exercise: likes and dislikes   

The Write Way
Ken Taylor on instructions
18.     Exercise: understanding instructions   

Skill Up!
19.    Exercise: presentation tools     
        
20.    Conclusion