| Listening |
Vocabulary |
Pronunciation |
Grammar |
| Ethical Companies
(Demo) |
| Companies helping the environment
|
Socio-economic problems |
Minimal pairs |
Common errors |
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| American Paradox |
Contrasts in the U.S.
|
Great and small |
Long and short |
Superlatives |
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| Oil Crisis |
The high price of oil
|
Prices |
Sounds |
Transitive verbs |
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| Too Many Chiefs |
Too many managers
|
Types of job |
Long vowels |
Reporting verbs |
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| Manchester Disunited |
The takeover of Manchester
United
|
Financing |
Pronouncing the letters 'ea' |
Prepositions |
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| Corruption |
Interview with economics expert
|
Corruption Pronunciation |
Penultimate stress |
Reflexive pronouns |
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| Sell Direct |
The Dell Computers business
model
|
Whatever, however, etc. |
Linking |
Sales Channels |
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| Europhobia |
How the British press is turning
the public against Europe
|
Anti-Europe Press |
Linking words |
Dictation |
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| Limited Resources |
An analyst speaks about the oil
crisis
|
Words describing sharp rises
and falls |
Prepositions |
Short and long ‘e’
|
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| Talent Spotting |
Management and recruitment policy
|
Phrases with make
and do |
Swallowing words |
Time phrases
|
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| White Elephant |
| Airbus is about to launch an
enormous new jumbo jet? But does anyone really want it |
Competition |
Word stress |
Placing of verbs |
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| Is outsourcing a
dirty word? |
Comment on the issue of outsourcing
|
Outsourcing |
-ing and –ed endings |
Adjectives |
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| Success |
There are plenty of management
guides to becoming more successful, but not so many on what
to do once you are.
|
Success |
The letters ‘ow’ |
Personal Pronouns |
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| Borrowed Time |
| Britons are now building up record
levels of personal debt, particularly on their credit cards. |
Debt |
Silent letters and difficult
words |
Direct or indirect object |
| Alcohol use |
| Teenagers in Britain, in particular
young girls, are drinking more than ever before. |
Growing up |
Word stress - 2-syllable words |
Present tenses |
| Feelgood Factor |
| How Australia has made the feelgood
factor a permanent feature of life. |
Winning and losing |
/u/, /u:/ and /ju:/ |
to + -ing |
| Home from work |
| More and more people use the
company's time and internet facilities to organise things in
their personal lives. |
Personal chores |
Intonation in questions |
Can and be able |
| Chinese Capitalism |
| How far has Chinese capitalism
come and how far will it go? |
Economics |
Stressing the right word |
Even |
| Power Cuts |
| Major power cuts in Europe and
America |
Energy Supply |
Hard 'g' or soft 'g'? |
Probability |
| Hacked Off |
| How hackers work and how we can
combat them |
IT security |
Dictation |
verbs + -ing or infinitive |
| To research or not
to research? |
| Pharmaceutical companies
are fighting to hold on to profits from their patented drugs.
Will generic drugs be a more profitable route? |
Medical |
Sentence stress |
Present perfect |
| Diplomatic Spats |
| Was Berlusconi's recent anti-German
outburst an isolated example of diplomatic insult? |
Diplomatic language |
In reply |
Likely and unlikely |
| Cheapskate |
| Are we so used to low prices
that we've all become cheapskates? |
low prices |
Contractions |
Third conditional |
| Edutainment |
| What's your idea of a theme park?
Probably not this!" |
Leisure and sport |
Difficult words |
Leisure time - Common errors |
| Fat Cats |
| Fat cat directors are facing
a threat to their generous pay packages |
Remuneration |
'-ough' endings |
Giving reasons |
| Getting the balance
right |
| UK working rights |
Statistics |
Silent 'h' |
Conditionals - future reference
|
| We live in an age
of euphemisms |
Euphemisms used in business and
politics
|
Verbification
|
Weak forms |
Whatever, wherever, whenever,
whoever, however |
| What makes Tony Blair
tick? |
| What does Tony Blair believe
in? |
Political beliefs and actions |
-ile and -ive |
In order to… |
| The Nostalgia Business |
| Business is getting good at satisfying
our obsession with our childhood memories |
The Internet |
Abbreviations |
By doing... |
| Congestion Charging |
| Will congestion charging work? |
Transport |
Elision |
Better |
| Two Faces of the
press |
| A comparison between
two styles of journalism |
The media |
Spelling and Pronunciation |
Used to do
be used to doing |
| Successful Marketing
Services |
| Text messaging presents
a great new opportunity for marketers |
Advertising campaigns |
Numbers |
Relative pronouns |
| Appraisals |
Most companies give
their staff appraisals, but do they do it well?
|
Evaluating performance
|
Linking
|
Feel, seem, consider
etc.
|
| Digging their way
out |
| Are British railways on the
right track? |
Transport infrastructure |
The /3:/ sound |
Time phrases |
| The Football Business |
| How has football
become big business? |
Business in sport
|
Countries and nationalities
|
Passive tense |
| The committed employee |
| The factors that
make employees committed |
Causal verbs |
Throwaway phrases |
Common errors |
