All Business / ESP articles – Page 18

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    Business Spotlight: Dressing for success

    This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the importance of appropriate dress for certain business occasions. 

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    Business Spotlight: Access all areas

    This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about a man who changed his rather conventional job for something more adventurous, dangerous and physically challenging. 

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    Business Spotlight: Good connections

    This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about how social media can help you find a job or sell a business idea. 

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    Business Spotlight: Should interns be paid?

    In this lesson, based on two articles from Business Spotlight, two professionals offer their differing opinions on whether interns should be paid for their work.

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    Business Spotlight: We are not geeks

    In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, two London accountants talk about their very different working conditions and benefits.

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    Business Spotlight: Should you socialize with your co-workers?

    In this lesson, based on two articles from Business Spotlight, two professionals offer their differing opinions on whether work colleagues should socialize together. 

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    Business Spotlight: Outdoor office

    This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, features a man who has managed to turn his hobby into his career and start an ecological consultancy business.

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    Topics: Business

    Students are introduced to the topic of business in this instalment of Adrian Tennant’s Topics series. The lesson is available at two language levels (Pre-intermediate and Intermediate +) and gives students practice in reading, listening and speaking skills, as well as exercises focusing on grammar and vocabulary. 

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    Business Spotlight: Fighting back

    This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about different forms of bullying in the workplace and ways to tackle them.

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    Lesson Share: ESP: The future of computers?

    Phil Wade wins the lesson share competition with a specialist lesson for IT students that profiles the Raspberry Pi pocket computer and covers common IT abbreviations.

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    Business Spotlight: A marathon, not a sprint

    This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, is about London hosting the Olympic Games and the disruption and challenges this may cause people living in the city. 

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    Business Spotlight: Do Americans work too much?

    In this lesson, based on two articles from Business Spotlight magazine, two working Americans offer their differing opinions on whether Americans work more hours than they should. 

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    Business Spotlight: Out of office

    This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, is about how more employees are now working away from the office, also known as teleworking. 

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    Business Spotlight: Masters of the universe

    This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about how ordinary people can help provide information required for the advancement of scientific, environmental and humanitarian projects.

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    Business Spotlight: Far from home

    This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, is about culture shock and explores the causes, symptoms and how to cope with it. 

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    Lesson Share: Grammar: The accident

    Mandeep Locham wins the Lesson Share competition for a second time with a lesson that uses the subject of workplace accidents as a basis to revise the past tenses.

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    Topics: Jobs

    Students are introduced to the topic of jobs in this instalment of Adrian Tennant’s Topics series. The lesson is available at two language levels (Pre-intermediate and Intermediate +) and gives students practice in reading, listening and speaking skills, as well as exercises focusing on grammar and vocabulary. 

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    Business Spotlight: The Golden State?

    This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, is written by an American expat who talks about how the situation in her home state of California has changed in recent years.

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    Lesson Share: Grammar: Pawn shop

    Maria Sándor’s winning lesson incorporates a role-play that practises both negotiation skills and the present simple vs present continuous.  

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    Business Spotlight: Do you talk too much?

    This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, is about talking too much and highlights how you can recognize this in yourself and do something about it.