All ESP articles
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Macmillan 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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Business 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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Business 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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Business 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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Business 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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Business 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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Business 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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Business Spotlight: Sound design
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about noise in the workplace.
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Business 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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Business 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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Business Spotlight: Working effectively across cultures
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about intercultural communication within business.
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Business 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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Business 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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Business 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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Business 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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Business 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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Business 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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Business 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.