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In this lesson you will learn how to “small talk” or the basic conversations to build relationships with people. This podcast shows you how to ask about something that happened – show interest in a friend or colleague’s life.

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epod_biz147_A54.mp3(5.86mb)

In today’s podcast lesson we are going to learn about the differences between exaggeration and understatement in English and how people use or recognize them. Many of the examples of exaggeration and understatement are idioms.

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epod_biz140_B36.mp3(11.5mb)

Today’s mp3 lesson is about introductions. Often, when two people meet, they ask each other many questions. These questions can be different, but there are several that are almost always asked. We also often ask the same question that someone has just asked us, back to them. We are going to look at some natural spoken English that involves asking questions to someone that you have just met for the first time.

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epod_biz127_D25.mp3(12.1mb)

In today’s podcast mp3 we are going to be listening to introductions. Introducing yourself is very important. It is likely to be the first impression someone has of you, so you want it to be good. When we introduce ourselves in English, we usually tell the person our name, ask them theirs and ask them what they do for work and where they’re from. Today we’ll show you how to give good introductions by listening to two – one bad and one good.

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epod_biz124_D23.mp3(10.9mb)