Spotlight Audio 3/2010

English is spoken in many different ways around the world. Spotlight Audio gives you not only American English and British English, but often Australian, South African, Irish and other regional forms of pronunciation in 60 minutes of interviews, exercises and dialogues connected to Spotlight magazine.

Listen to "It's a great month to visit Los Angeles"

1. Introduction

People

2. Alexander Prior (p. 7)

World View

3. It's a great month to visit Los Angeles (p. 10)

A Day in My Life

4. John Adams (see pp. 8-9)

Britain Today

5. Will the next king be called Charles? (p. 13)

Debate

6. Is the British National Party a danger to democracy? (see pp. 28-29)

Society

7. Interview with Eric Schwartz (see pp. 22-25)

Travel

8. Old Colorado: Where the Wild West lives on (excerpt; see p. 32)

Replay: A look at recent news events

9. Introductio

10. Labour's leadership crisis

11. The underpants bomber

12. The more, the merrier?

American Life

13. As many plates as there are states (p. 65)

Quiz

14. Quiz on new words (see pp. 14-19)

Everyday English

15. Going to the cinema (pp. 49-50)

English at work

16. Responding to "thank you" (see p. 55)

Peggy's Place

17. A new face behind the bar? (p. 54)

Vocabulary

18. Insects and spiders (see pp. 46-47)

Spoken English

19. End-of-word voicing (see p. 56)

20. Exercises

Short Story

21. "After the flood" (p. 43)

22. Conclusion / Quiz

Total playing time 58:14