Spotlight Audio 7/2010

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... Brian Cox?" 

1. Introduction

People
2. Who exactly is... Brian Cox? (p. 6)

World View
3. It's a great month to go camping in Britain (p. 10)

A Day In My Life
4. Sean Keeler (see pp. 8-9)

Britain Today
5.  Spaghetti in Southampton (p. 13)

Music  
6. Pinetop Perkins, a blues legend (excerpt and music; pp. 14-19)

Debate
7.  Should Britain introduce minimum pricing for alcohol? (pp. 36-37)

Language
8.  Better spoken English (see pp. 14-19)

Replay: Recent news events
9. Introduction
10. Britain's new government
11. Louisiana's oil spill
12. A synthetic organism

American Life 
13. No more friendly skies (p. 65)

Travel
14.  Interview with marine biologist Rhonda Reidy (see pp. 28-33)

Everyday English
15.  Planning a kitchen (pp. 49-50)

English At Work
16.  What should I say when I meet someone for the first time? (see p. 55)

Peggy's Place
17.  I'd like to talk to the manager (p. 54)

Vocabulary
18. A wedding (see pp. 46-47)

Spoken English
19. Please: the magic word (see p. 56)
20. Exercises

Short Story
21.  "The sweet life" (p. 43)

22. Conclusion

Total playing time 60:56