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This aa podcast covers common phrases people use when they are making presentations, especially one with a visual aid – a chart, PowerPoint slides or handouts. In this podcast, you will listen to Jennifer give a presentation and answer questions from her boss. She uses language to talk about the graphs she is presenting, language to direct people’s attention to what she’s talking about and terms to describe the graph itself.

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epod_biz146_C25.mp3(6.03mb)

Today’s English lesson is about appearance, or what someone looks like. We are going to practice describing people’s appearances and then comparing them to each other. It is quite common for native English speakers to have to make comparisons between people.

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epod_biz141_D29.mp3(10.1mb)

Today’s podcast lesson is about crime and punishment. There is a lot of legal language that is useful to know if you ever want to talk about a court case. There are often controversial court cases that become popular topics of conversation and many American TV shows involve police and/or lawyers, so we will look at some of the vocabulary that is used in the legal system.

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epod_biz134_C22.mp3(12.0mb)

Today’s lesson is about car accidents. Anything can happen on the road. There are a variety of ways to describe an accident in English. Hopefully if you are traveling or living abroad you won’t be in this situation, but it helps to know how just in case.

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epod_biz130_C21.mp3(13.2mb)