Business Spotlight is a language magazine for everybody who needs
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intercultural issues — and lea business English, too.
Business Spotlight 4/2009 magazine contents
SPECIAL: GOING GREEN Language
Do you have the verbal skills to talk about the environment and other green subjects?
Find out in our special test How Green Are You?
Is your behaviour at home and in the office good for the environment? The View from Here
Bjø Lomborg on lessons from the Danish wind-energy industry
Also: Country File, Denmark Business Trends
Green technologies are receiving a lot of media attention. We look at the real growth areas My Working Life
Cam Walker, coordinator of Friends of the Earth, Melboue, talks about his life Water Management
How the Netherlands plans to use new technology in its battle against floods Head-to-Head
Are genetically modified plants a threat to India’s ecology? WORKING WORLD Names and News
The latest from the world of business GLOBAL BUSINESS Business Press
Comments from the world’s media
Also: Behind the Headlines Spotlight on Switzerland
Suzanne Rosselet-McCauley on knowledge transfer and innovation intercultural communication Socializing
Improve your cross-cultural skills Dialogue
Two art dealers discuss their work BUSINESS SKILLS Positive Thinking
How to remain optimistic at work
Also: A language survival guide to cut out and keep The Write Way
Thank-you letters Say It in Style
Talking about probability On the Line
Answering the phone in English Meeting Point
Dealing with interruptions CAREERS Coping with Promotion
Why getting ahead at work can bring important changes The Job Doctor
Tips on how to make a good start in your new job My Way
Investment banker and teacher Susan Christine Schell MANAGEMENT Marketing
How airlines are looking to improve their customer service What I’ve Leaed
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu talks about leadership Business Basics
What is. cocooning? Executive Eye
Adrian Fuham: garlic bosses TECHNOLOGY Language Focus
Cleanrooms Innovations
New product developments Technically Speaking
Eamonn Fitzgerald on why London will be strong again LANGUAGE section Vocabulary: the airport
Media Watch: language in the news
False Friends; Tricky Translations
Language Cards: pull out and practise
Vocabulary list: key words to lea
English on the Move: the hotel concierge
Grammar at Work: sentence adverbs
The Maine Event: an office dialogue
English for. the wine industry
Financial English: leasing
Authentic English: repeating and rephrasing
Legal English: secured transactions
What’s New? Products, sites, events REGULAR SECTIONS Editorial
Business Spotlight Audio
Business Spotlight Online
Classified ads
Feedback / Impressum
Preview
The Last Laugh
SPECIAL: GOING GREEN Language
Do you have the verbal skills to talk about the environment and other green subjects?
Find out in our special test How Green Are You?
Is your behaviour at home and in the office good for the environment? The View from Here
Bjø Lomborg on lessons from the Danish wind-energy industry
Also: Country File, Denmark Business Trends
Green technologies are receiving a lot of media attention. We look at the real growth areas My Working Life
Cam Walker, coordinator of Friends of the Earth, Melboue, talks about his life Water Management
How the Netherlands plans to use new technology in its battle against floods Head-to-Head
Are genetically modified plants a threat to India’s ecology? WORKING WORLD Names and News
The latest from the world of business GLOBAL BUSINESS Business Press
Comments from the world’s media
Also: Behind the Headlines Spotlight on Switzerland
Suzanne Rosselet-McCauley on knowledge transfer and innovation intercultural communication Socializing
Improve your cross-cultural skills Dialogue
Two art dealers discuss their work BUSINESS SKILLS Positive Thinking
How to remain optimistic at work
Also: A language survival guide to cut out and keep The Write Way
Thank-you letters Say It in Style
Talking about probability On the Line
Answering the phone in English Meeting Point
Dealing with interruptions CAREERS Coping with Promotion
Why getting ahead at work can bring important changes The Job Doctor
Tips on how to make a good start in your new job My Way
Investment banker and teacher Susan Christine Schell MANAGEMENT Marketing
How airlines are looking to improve their customer service What I’ve Leaed
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu talks about leadership Business Basics
What is. cocooning? Executive Eye
Adrian Fuham: garlic bosses TECHNOLOGY Language Focus
Cleanrooms Innovations
New product developments Technically Speaking
Eamonn Fitzgerald on why London will be strong again LANGUAGE section Vocabulary: the airport
Media Watch: language in the news
False Friends; Tricky Translations
Language Cards: pull out and practise
Vocabulary list: key words to lea
English on the Move: the hotel concierge
Grammar at Work: sentence adverbs
The Maine Event: an office dialogue
English for. the wine industry
Financial English: leasing
Authentic English: repeating and rephrasing
Legal English: secured transactions
What’s New? Products, sites, events REGULAR SECTIONS Editorial
Business Spotlight Audio
Business Spotlight Online
Classified ads
Feedback / Impressum
Preview
The Last Laugh