Spotlight Audio 4/2010

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 to "Who exactly is... Iris Apfel?"

1. Introduction

People

2. Iris Apfel (p. 6)

World View

3. It’s a great month to fish the River Taff (p. 11)

A Day in My Life

4. Sheilla Hlatshwayo (see pp. 8–9)

Britain Today

5. How the Scots are saving the English (p. 13)

Debate

6. Can cars and bikes share the road? (pp. 36–37)

Food

7. Interview with Paula McIntyre (see pp. 20–21)

Travel

8. Going home to Hobart (excerpt; pp. 28–33)

Politics

9. Interview with Martin Boon (see pp. 22–25)

Replay: A look at recent news events

10. Introduction

11. Britain’s Iraq War inquiry

12. Adopted or kidnapped?

13. Mandela’s 20 years of freedom

Around Oz

14. A very Australian industry (p. 34) 

Language

15. Verb tenses (see pp. 14–19)

Everyday English

16. Easter (pp. 49–50)

English at work

17. Meeting someone for the first time (see p. 55)

Peggy's Place

18. Another new face behind the bar? (p. 54)

Vocabulary

19. Housework (see pp. 46–47)

Spoken English

20. The word “well” (see p. 56)

Short Story

21. “Hit-and-run” (p. 43)

22. Conclusion / Quiz

Total playing time 61:20