The Business Spotlight Podcast show

The Business Spotlight Podcast

Summary: Improve your business English with the Business Spotlight podcast. Our weekly podcast will help you to improve your listening skills and practise your spoken English in an fun and innovative way. Written especially for learners of English and produced by the same people who bring you Business Spotlight magazine, Business Spotlight plus and Business Spotlight audio CD, our podcasts are an entertaining language-learning resource. Work on your English so you can work in English!

Podcasts:

 Language Test: Politeness | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:19

Ken Taylor on giving your opinion politely

 Business Skills: Effective speaking | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:15

Asking rhetorical questions

 Interview: Working from home | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:59

Would you prefer to work from home?

 Business Skills: Listening | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:58

This time, we welcome communication skills expert Ken Taylor, who can give us some strategies for listening well. Here’s Ken.

 Names and News: The Tube advantage | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:58

Today we’ll listen to a short news item from London, about the importance of the Underground.

 Language Test: Job titles | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:34

We have a special quiz on jobs and job titles for you!

 Names and News: Immigrants welcome | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:54

This time you’ll hear a short news item from the United States. As you listen, try to answer the following question: “Which four US cities are mentioned that are trying to attract immigrants?”

 Language Test: 101 key terms for business | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:47

Today we'll test how well you know key business terms.

 Vocabulary: Weather conditions | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:08

Vocabulary: Weather conditions

 Translation: False friends | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:44

Today we’ll look at some false friends relating to the subject of retailing — this means selling to consumers, usually in shops.

 Business Skills: Dealing with uncertainty | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:03

Business Skills: Dealing with uncertainty

 Grammar: Making suggestions | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:01

This week, we’ll work on our grammar, and in particular, on different ways of making suggestions.

 Intercultural Communication: Working with sub-Saharan Africa | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:04

Today, our Intercultural Communication section is about working with Sub-Saharan Africa. Robert Gibson talks to Bob Mtanda, from Kenya

 Vocabulary: Skill Up! — Your holidays | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:47

This time we present vocabulary for your holidays from Skill Up!

 Test: Travel and transport | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:59

This time, we offer you a special test on the language of transport and travel.

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