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Grammar: "There" and "It"
This week's podcast looks at how to use ?there? and ?it? at the start of sentences and in certain expressions. You use them all the time, but do you use them correctly?
Skills: Personal Branding
Branding is a marketing tool used to get customers to recognize products and services, and to associate positive characteristics with them. And branding works for individuals, too. Ken Taylor tells us why.
Interview: John Perkins
You may know that a 'hit man' is someone who murders people for
money... and, today, we'll hear from John Perkins, who says he has
worked as an "economic hit man".
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News: Save our pub!
What could be more English than the local pub? But with more than 50 pubs closing every month, these are difficult times for this British institution.
Telephoning: Summarize the points
Ken Taylor is here to explain how to summarize your phone calls!
Skills: Say It in Style
Erica Gingerich explains how to make your explanations more polite. Don't just use the imperative form!
Intercultural: Austria
Austrians and Germans may be neighbours across the Alps, but each country has its own business culture. Intercultural communication expert Robert Gibson is here with a guest, to tell us more about working with Austrians.
Skills: Negotiating
Some negotiations are formal, others are more informal, such as deciding who has to make the coffee! How well do you know the language of negotiating?
Humour: Office Blues
Kathrin Enke, author of our Office Blues is helping her husband move into a new office. So he's "making the switch." But it's not going smoothly.
Interview: Leslie McKinney
Leslie McKinney tells us how he got started in his unusual career. A magician reveals his career tricks in this week's podcast!
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