READING THE NEWS-AUDIO CD

Sharma, Pete

ISBN 10: 1424003806 ISBN 13: 9781424003808

Publisher: Thomson ELT, 2006

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Contains recordings of articles in Reading the News.

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Review:

1. A hunger for English lessons 2. Have foreign MBA, will travel in Chinese business 3. As smoke clears, tobacco maker opens lounge 4. Secret wealth vs. ?for richer, for poorer? 5. Nuclear power industry feels the wind at its back 6. Women?s work / The wages of equality 7. Managing globalization: If it?s here to stay, what do we do now? 8. Chances a low-fat diet will help? Slim and none 9. Music business finds little to sing about 10. Spotlight: A wedding planner for a new Japan 11. Cross-cultural training: How much difference does it really make? 12. The beauty premium: Why good looks pay 13. Retiring to cheaper climes? Caveat emptor 14. Cityscape: Street chef in a city that loves its food 15. The name game: Can anyone famous be a designer? 16. Stressed executives flee the pressure 17. Portrait: A rising star in Chinese cinema 18. Swedes step ahead on ethnic harmony 19. Film: The audience speaks Spanish but not at the multiplex 20. A British invasion for the digital age 21. Is Internet auctioneer an arena for criminals? 22. Global warming: Adapting to a new reality 23. Fake malaria pills haunt Asians 24. Keeping in touch the blogger way

About the Author:

Pete started his EFL career as a business English teacher in Madrid, moving to Finland before returning to the UK. He worked as teacher trainer, Director of Studies and school manager before becoming the Group teacher training and development manager for Linguarama, a business English organisation which is now part of the Marcus Evans group. In his capacity as a member of the Group Pedagogical Unit he inspected schools, taught writing seminars in the Middle and Far East, and helped create and run trainer training courses. He has written extensively about technology in language teaching. Pete recently changed from ESP to EAP, and currently divides his time between lecturing at Oxford Brookes University and on the Warwick University pre-sessional courses, and writing. He keeps a blog on using technology in ELT with co-author Barney Barrett. See: www.te4be.com

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