Spotlight Audio 12/2009

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 "Gcina Mhlophe"

1. Introduction

People

2. Gcina Mhlophe (p. 6)

World View

3. How's your Glaswegian? (p. 12)

A Day in My Life

4. Andrew Brent Elliott (see p. 9)

Britain Today

5. No food is good food for British tourists (p. 13)

Debate

6. Should Britain have soldiers in Afghanistan? (see p. 20)

Focus: Don't fence me in

7. Cowgirl quiz (see p. 22)

8. Interviews with Patricia Riley and Tricia Taylor Dixon (see p. 22)

Everyday English

9. Christmas is coming (see pp. 49-50)

Replay: A look at recent news events

10. Introduction

11. A Nobel Prize for Obama (see p. 30)

12. The Maldives underwater (see p. 28)

13. Gorillas on Facebook

Around Oz

14. Bottom of the list: it's a journalist's life (p. 39)

Travel

15. Once in a lifetime (excerpt; p. 32)

English at work

16. Giving simple instructions (see p. 55)

Peggy's Place

17. The Ghost of Christmas Present (p. 54)

Vocabulary

18. Winter sports (see pp. 46-47)

Short Story

19. "Bananarama" (p. 43)

20. Conclusion / Quiz

Total playing time 61:51