All Business / ESP articles – Page 20
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Who can you trust?
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, an American career coach talks about practices and methods used to tell when someone is lying.
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Business Spotlight: My home is my castle
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, talks about the Indian government’s use of satellite images of slums and to what ends this information may be used.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Is it ever OK to lie in a job interview?
In this lesson, based on two articles from Business Spotlight magazine, a former recruitment director and a director of an employment website discuss whether candidates should lie in job interviews.
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Spot on news lessons for teens: The world at your fingertips
In this lesson, we meet young people who tell us about their jobs and how they couldn’t do them without speaking English.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: End and beginning
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, deals with the problematic but essential Business English topic of losing a job.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Career focus: Recruiter for love
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, Sophia McDonald talks about her company and how her people skills helped her become a successful matchmaker.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: What I've learned: 50 Cent
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, the American rapper 50 Cent talks to the author Robert Greene about his life, career and business decisions.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Planning the future
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, two students who study abroad talk about matters that are important to them, such as tuition fees and future job prospects.
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Travel agents
The sixth lesson plan in this series by Keith Harding is available at two levels - elementary and intermediate - and contains comprehensive teacher's notes and student worksheets. The elementary lesson practises vocabulary related to holidays and dealing with bookings, while the intermediate lesson concentrates on language related to advertising and superlatives.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: The art doctor
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, a businessman talks about his decision to dramatically change his career path and the consequences it had on his life.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Moving down under
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, Nerida Frost talks about how she made the move from Germany to New Zealand with her family.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Making a start
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, deals with the stages of kick-off meetings and their importance for the success of new projects.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: The case against self-employment
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, deals with the advantages and disadvantages of having a full-time contract and being self-employed.
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ArticleHospitality and Tourism
In this introduction to his series of resources, Keith Harding provides some tips for using these materials.
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Progress and achievement
A lesson by Adrian Doff for students to practise using common expressions for talking about making progress and achieving something.
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Problems and difficulties
A lesson by Adrian Doff focusing on the grammar and functional language of problems and how to solve them.
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Your English: Idioms: hand
Tim Bowen has his hands full with this handy selection of hand-related idioms.
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Your English: Collocations: place
Tim Bowen captures the mood with this educational discussion on collocates of the word place.
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Studying and learning
A lesson by Adrian Doff for students to talk about subjects of study and to discuss going to college or university.