Spotlight Audio 2/2012

English is spoken in 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 here to a sample track from this month's audio: Peggy's Place, our London pub dialogue. Subscribers get a complete transcript as well as access to Spotlight Premium.

This month's contents

1. Introduction

People
2. David Cameron

Britain Today
3. What the British are good at

A Day in My Life
4. Museum archivist DeSoto Brown

Travel
5. Chasing rainbows on the Isles of Scilly (excerpt)

Test Your Spoken English
6. Lynn Brincks on speaking tests
7. Talking about yourself
8. Exercise: Talking about yourself
9. Planning a holiday
10. Exercise: Planning a holiday
11. Presentation: Harry Potter

Debate
12. Should Canada be tougher on young criminals?

Replay: recent news events
13. Introduction
14. Australia's uranium deal
15. Agreement on the climate

Winter
16. Love it or hate it?
17. World View: Myths and colds die hard
18. American Life: Making the most of winter

Everyday English
19. Jumble sales

Peggy's Place
20. Money for nothing

English at Work
21. Writing reports

Short Story
22. The woman at the station

23. Conclusion

Total playing time 60:57