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News: They shoot horses, don't they?

Canada is now a major exporter of horsemeat. But is this a good thing? Critics are concerned about the conditions under which the horses are being transported for slaughter. And there may be other problems, too.

The games supermarkets play

The UK supermarket industry is worth £120 billion, so it’s understandable that every supermarket is doing its best to attract the maximum number of UK customers. We look at the language used to describe the various initiatives.

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Business Spotlight plus 6/2011

TRANSLATION WORK
False friends and tricky expressions

VOCABULARY
Talking about health problems at work

Winner of the competition in Business Spotlight Plus 5/2011

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News: Head-to-Head food special

If you have to live on a strict budget, even small increases in the price of essentials such as food can be a cause for concern. Reports have shown that food prices have risen significantly in the past year, in particular in the UK.

Skill Up! (9) Talking about food: Dining out Illustration: Bernhard Förth

Dining out (2)

When you eat out in an English-speaking country, you will see items that you may want to talk about or ask for. Here, we test your knowledge of some basic restaurant vocabulary.

Great British pies! Photo: Britainonview.com

Food: pies

The British don't only throw pies at Rupert Murdoch, they like to use them in idiomatic expressions, too. Test your knowledge of British food — and idioms — in our short quiz. We hope it makes you hungry for more!

Dining out (1)

When you eat out in an English-speaking country, you will see items that you may want to talk about or ask for. Here, we test your knowledge of some basic restaurant vocabulary.

"Taste is a very personal thing. It’s also a very useful word."

A matter of taste

In Skill Up! Talking about food, we focus on different kinds of tastes, and on how to use adjectives to describe how food tastes. In this exercise, you can find out if you know how to use “taste” correctly — in all its forms and with all its common meanings.

In Skill Up! (9), our Small Talk section focuses on the language you will need for dining out. In this test, we look at a typical dialogue at the start of a business dinner.

Small Talk: Dining out with business partners

We focus on the language you will need for dining out. In this test, we look at a typical dialogue at the start of a business dinner.

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Business Spotlight 4/2011

BUSINESS SKILLS:
Managing positive and negative talk at work

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION:
Selecting and keeping staff increasingly requires good intercultural skills

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