Spotlight Audio 4/2008

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 70 minutes of interviews, exercises and dialogues connected to Spotlight magazine.

Listen to 'Healthy clothes'

Contents

1. Introduction

People

2. Hazel Minn (p. 7)

World View

3. Healthy clothes (p. 11)

A Day in My Life

4. George Anderson (see p. 9)

Britain Today

5. Why the world needs more foreigners (p. 14)

Language

6. Say what you mean (p. 16)

Debate

7. Should workers be given more rights? (see p. 24)

Focus: Liverpool

8. Liverpool live

9. "England's pool of life" (excerpt; p. 36)

10. Liverpool music quiz

Replay: A look at recent news events

11. Introduction

12. Apology to the Aboriginal peoples

13. Sharia law in Britain?

14. Lights out in South Africa

Everyday English

15. A day out (pp. 59-60)

Literature

16. Fay Weldon (see p. 42)

English at Work

17. Writing minutes (p. 64)

Peggy's Place

18. Walking into trouble (p. 58)

Spoken English

19. Connected speech (see p. 68)

Short Story

20. The silver ladies (p. 47)

21. Conclusion / quiz

Total playing time - 63.28