Spotlight Audio 1/2011

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 "Welcome to Australia".

1. Introduction

Britain Today
2. Make space for tigers

Focus on Travel: Australia
3. Welcome to Australia
4. An art tour in Australia’s north (excerpt)
5. Interview with John Bradley
6. Around Oz: You’ll be seeing more of us soon

A Day in My Life
7. Polo player Joe Wayne Barry

8. Introduction
9. Britain cuts back
10. A partnership: India and the US
11. Free at last: Aung San Suu Kyi

12. Does Canada need baby hatches?

Focus on Language: Description
14. Describing what you hear
15. Quiz: Describing sounds
16. Describing tone of voice

Everyday English
17. At the sales

English at Work
18. Dear Ken: Can you help me give a speech?

History
19. "If—": A poem by Rudyard Kipling
20. Rudyard Kipling: Voice of the British Empire (excerpt)

Short Story
21. "An offer too good to refuse?"

22. Conclusion

Total playing time 61:34