Business Spotlight Audio 6/2010

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

Introduction   
1.    Let’s get started!

Names and News   
2.    From big oil to big algae
3.    Fighting Aids

Test   
4.    Exercise: export documents

Intercultural Communication   
5.    International customers
6.    Cultural moment: British restaurant customers

False Friends
7.    Exercise: translation

Office Talk   
8.    The Maine Event

Business Skills    
Ken Taylor on change management    
9.     Exercise: useful vocabulary
10.   Exercise: the A-M-A-C model
11.   Exercise: creating an “elevator speech”

Grammar
12.   Exercise: using “I wish”

Authentic English
Ken Taylor on storytelling
13.   Dialogue/exercise: telling a story

Short Story
14.   The West Tower

Head-to-Head
15.    Do women need quotas to get to the top?

Meeting Point
Ken Taylor on dealing with disagreement
16.    Dialogue/exercise: keeping control
17.    Dialogue/exercise: taking a “time out”

Insight
Business news with Tania Higgins    
18.    Pakistan’s economy after the flood
19.    Strikes in South Africa
20.    Corporate round-up

Conclusion 
21.    For more information