Spotlight Audio 11/2010

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 here to Arnold Ngumbao from our Zanzibar focus on travel.

1. Introduction

Britain Today
2. Keep your hat on — if you can

Focus on travel: Zanzibar 
3. Introduction to the Spice Islands
4. People: Arnold Ngumbao
5. Tropical Zanzibar (excerpt)
6. Interview with Sam Pickens
7. Exercise: spices

A Day in My Life 
8. Irish lighthouse attendant Brendan Carty

American Life 
9. When reality is just too much

Debate
10. Would the mining tax be good for Australia?

Replay: recent news events 
11. Introduction
12. America's recession worries
13. India's last-minute games
14. New Zealand's lucky escape

15. Proper pub manners
16. Peggy's Place: To blog, or not to blog
17. Essential pub vocabulary
18. Dialogue: in the pub

English at work
19. Dear Ken: How should I begin a phone call?

Everyday English
20. Buying a car

Short Story
21. "Losing the plot"
22. Conclusion

Total playing time 61:32