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ESL Pod has lots of useful podcasts for intermediate & upper-intermediate learners. You can listen to the audio online or download it to play on your phone or MP3 player. Usually the format is:
Here are some useful podcasts about presentations:
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Update 2013-11-20:
My student Yeping from China asks:
In the course named Training and Development Strategy (Part 1)，I can’t find the relationship between coaching and its explanation (developing a person's skills or knowledge so their job performance improves what does the word “coach” mean?
My answer:
A good question. In fact, coaching (as a form of employee development) can be a little difficult to understand clearly even for native English speakers, as it is a new idea and not very clear yet.
Basically, in coaching one person helps another to achieve an improvement in their performance at work.
Update 2013-12-10: Added link to Quizlet and Listen and Write exercises for Podcast 750. In our classes on Sales, we cover topics like sales vocabulary, retail, wholesale, modes of payment, discounts, e-commerce, trends etc. So here are some useful intermediate podcasts related to these topics. ESL Pod ESL Pod has lots of useful podcasts for intermediate & upper-intermediate learners. You can listen to the audio online or download it to play on your phone or MP3 player. Usually the format is:
 1. Issuing Bank Logo - 2. EMV chip (only on "smart cards") - 3. Hologram - 4. Personal Account Number - 5. Card Brand Logo - 6. Expiration Date - 7. Card Holder Name - 8. Contactless Chip - SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card
 1. Magnetic Stripe - 2. Signature Strip - 3. Card Security Code - SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card
Summary: As someone who is not fluent in Chinese, I cannot rely on Tencent 腾讯/QQ for microblogging (or indeed anything). So I'm not using Tencent and now I'm trying LinkedIn instead. Update 2013-11-15: Once again, Tencent Weibo is denying me access to my account without explanation and without a way to resolve the problem in English. I used to use a Tencent Weibo microblog to give my Chinese students useful or interesting links related to English, China, business etc. But back in June, I had a major problem with it: I could no longer access it at all. I wrote about that in my blog post here.  Any attempt by me to fix the problem would lead to lots of untranslated pages in Chinese. So I e-mailed their international support. The only response I had from Tencent was a link to instructions about what to do when you lose your password. There were several problems with this:
I continued to try to resolve this problem communicating in English with Tencent / QQ International, via e-mail and via their blog (which is what you get taken to when you click on "Help"). No luck for me with Tencent I never had another reply from Tencent International's e-mail, despite me writing twice more.
Update 2015-12-11: Added BEP 102c
In a presentation, signposting is giving the audience information about where they are in the presentation and where they'll be going.
In presentations, a transition is the action / process of finishing one topic and moving to another.
(See this post of mine for a video on signposting and transitions: Presentations: Video with Signposting and Transitions )
Here are some links with useful vocabulary, articles, audio and exercises for signposting and transitioning in presentations.
Update 2015-12-11: Updated vocabulary & other links.
In our course on business presentations, we have a class on signposting (#2) and transitions.
In a presentation, signposting is giving the audience information about where they are in the presentation and where they'll be going.
Update 2016-03-24: Removed dead VideoJug link.  A personal statement is a short paragraph about yourself near the top of a CV / résumé, which quickly gives the reader the most important information about you, and makes them interesting in hiring you for the job. It can also be called a:
A similar idea is an objective statement (or objective), where you say what you want to achieve in the job you're applying for, but most advice nowadays say that objective statements are no longer useful. You can read about both profiles and objectives here. Here are some links to useful articles about writing a personal statement on your CV / résumé.
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