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I provide this service
weekly on Mondays.
I use the 11.20am World Business Report on the BBC World
Service.
Institutions have two options. They can either download it
onto a computer or I can post them a CD or audio cassette
of the programme each Monday. For information about prices,
please click here
The programme is available for four hours on the following
BBC website until it is replaced by the next edition at 4.20pm:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/default.stm
The programme is available for downloading
from 12 noon until 4.20pm. On the home page you will
see in the centre these words in white on red bar: business
programmes. At the end of the bar is the word
show with a + sign. Click on this and you will see a
choice of five business programmes. Just click on World
Business Report to listen to the programme.
For more information on how to download a BBC programme
onto your computer, please click
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To accompany each programme I produce a variety of exercises
at Intermediate Level +. These include the following: Corrections,
Questions, True/False and Gap-Fills.
I produce between four and five pages of exercises each week
containing 80 to 90 items. The exercises are accompanied by
a comprehensive answersheet. I also produce three to four
pages of transcripts of the in-depth reports and interviews
contained in each programme. This makes the materials ideal
for either classroom teaching or self-access and directed
learning.
I guarantee to e-mail institutions the exercises, answersheets
and transcripts by 2pm on Tuesdays. (The materials take me
around 10 hours to prepare and it is impossible for me to
send them earlier without affecting the quality of my writing.)
The BBC World Business Report is ideal for training students
already in business or who wish to work in business to improve
their listening skills. Each programme contains the latest
headlines from the world of business and finance, together
with market reports and in-depth reports and interviews. The
interviews are often with non-native English speakers which
exposes students to the various accents they are likely to
encounter in their work. Each interview is accompanied by
a transcript which allows students to focus on the pronunciation
of the words used in the interview and also gives them the
opportunity to learn useful new lexical items from hearing
and seeing them in context.
The same vocabulary and grammatical structures are recycled
naturally from programme to programme. In addition to exercise
items focusing on listening comprehension, I also focus on
listening training and include items which train students
in phoneme discrimination and dealing with assimilation, elision
and linking. Where non-native speakers are interviewed I usually
gap-fill words which are probably part of the students’
active vocabulary but which they might have problems with
due to the unfamiliar pronunciation.
To listen to a typical BBC World Business Report programme,
CLICK HERE 
To view the accompanying exercises and answersheets, DOWNLOAD
HERE 
To view the accompanying transcripts, DOWNLOAD
HERE
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