All Business / ESP articles – Page 18
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ArticleBusiness 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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ArticleBusiness 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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ArticleBusiness 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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ArticleBusiness 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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ArticleBusiness 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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ArticleBusiness 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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ArticleBusiness 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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ArticleBusiness 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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ArticleBusiness 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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ArticleBusiness 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.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: The five Ps of participation
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, is about participating in meetings and offers hints and suggestions which have been divided into five easy-to-remember categories.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Creature comforts
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, is about pet-care and the estimated global revenue of the industry as well as its many sides - innovative, necessary and emotional.
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Lesson Share: Business: Workplace dilemma
Mandeep Locham’s winning lesson is a modern, interactive method of practising the imperative and common phrasal verbs used in business.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: A new revolution
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, a Saudi Arabian woman talks about the restrictions that women in her country encounter in their everyday lives.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Reach for the top
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, looks at the pros and cons of appraisals and both employees’ and managers’ attitudes towards them.
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Business vocabulary
Make business terms such as ‘consumer’ and ‘monopoly’ accessible through illustrations, straightforward definitions and example sentences that demonstrate verb collocations (e.g. ‘make a profit’). Students put the lesson into practice through matching, translation and sentence completion exercises.