All ESP articles
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ArticleMacmillan Dictionary Blog: Metaphor
This article, by Dr Rosamund Moon, takes you through the fascinating world of metaphor and discovers how everyday words and phrases can have deeper, metaphorical meanings.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Your plan for 2020
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, offers 20 tips that can help everybody further their career.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Manna from heaven?
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about quantitative easing (QE) and what effects it could or might have on individuals and industry.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: How to deal with imposter syndrome
This lesson based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the psychological phenomenon of imposter syndrome and how it can affect people in their work.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Communication to arrange communication is now normal
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about how our ways of communicating have changed over the past few years, as a result of electronic communication.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Your workplace’s best friend?
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about taking pets into work.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Can we trust online reviews?
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about whether we can trust online reviews.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Sound design
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about noise in the workplace.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: The fear of speaking in public
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, offers tips and practical advice for speaking in public.
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Was it something I said?
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the importance of small talk in the workplace.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Is space exploration a waste of money?
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, discusses whether space exploration is a good investment.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Working effectively across cultures
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about intercultural communication within business.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Fit for work
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, discusses whether we sit down too much at work.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: (Block)chain reaction
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about is about supply-chain management (SCM) and ’blockchain’.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Protecting valuable ideas
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about patents and how ideas can be protected.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Say no at work
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about why we should learn to say no at work.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Should tourist numbers be capped?
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about whether a limit should be placed on tourist numbers.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Capital costs
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the likely effects of Brexit on London.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Should we all work a four-day week?
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about introducing a four-day working week.