Spotlight Audio 7/2009
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 "Accent matters"
1. Introduction
People
2. Rahm Emanuel (p. 6)
World View
3. Accent matters (p. 12)
A Day in My Life
4. Stephen Edwards (see p. 9)
Britain Today
5. The breakfast that never ends (p. 13)
Debate
6. Is it ever OK to lie on your résumé? (see p. 20)
Focus: Great Britain
7. Life in the slow lane (excerpt and exercise; see p. 32)
8. Interview with Lynda Payton (see p. 32)
Language
9. Did I say that? (see p. 14)
Everyday English
10. I'm in love! (excerpt; pp. 49-50)
Replay: A look at recent news events
11. Introduction
12. Swine flu
13. South Africa's new president
14. Clever orang-utan
American Life
15. The many identities of our Uncle Sam (p. 65)
English at work
16. Saying goodbye (see p. 55)
Peggy's Place
17. On a dark summer night (p. 54)
Lifestyle
18. A Memphis love song (excerpt; p. 22)
Vocabulary
19. On the beach (see pp. 46-47)
Short Story
20. "A restless place" (p. 43)
21. Conclusion / Quiz
Total playing time 59:31












