Down to Business English

By Skip Montreux, Dez Morgan & Samantha Vega | Business English InstructorsEducation Language Learning

Down to Business English episodes

October 18, 2015 D2B 079 | Generic vs. Brand Name Drugs
Samantha explains to Skip the reasons why generic drugs are so much cheaper than brand name pharmaceuticals
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21 min
September 22, 2015 D2B 078 | The Trans Pacific Partnership
Skip & Dez discuss who and what is involved in the Trans Pacific Partnership.
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23 min
July 08, 2015 D2B 077 | Uber
Today on Down to Business English, Skip Montreux and Samantha Vega discuss the disruptive taxi company Uber.
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22 min
June 26, 2015 D2B 076 | Elon Musk
Today on Down to Business English, Skip Montreux and Samantha Vega talk about the career of Elon Musk. From South Africa to Mars. Is he a the real life Iron Man?
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30 min
June 19, 2015 D2B 075 | Apple Sales in China
Today on Down to Business English, Samantha Vega tells Skip Montreux about Apple’s growing sales in China and how that market is becoming more and more important to the company’s worldwide revenue.
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19 min
June 10, 2015 D2B 074 | Monsanto and GMOs
Today on Down to Business English, Skip Montreux & Dez Morgan discuss genetically modified foods (GMOs) and the controversial corporate giant Monsanto.
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21 min
May 06, 2015 D2B 073 | Technology in the Food Industry
Today on Down to Business English, Skip Montreux welcomes special guest host Samantha Vega to talk about technology in the food industry.
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15 min
January 15, 2015 D2B 072 | Youth Unemployment
Skip Montreux and Dez Morgan discuss the youth unemployment situation in the EU and UK.
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15 min
September 23, 2014 D2B 071 | Shale Oil
Skip Montreux and Dez Morgan discuss the economic benefits of shale oil and the controversial drilling technique of fracking.
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Skip: Hello everyone. Skip Montreux here. Thanks for joining us on Down to Business English today.
Dez: Yes, welcome back listeners, I hope everyone is well. How is life treating you Skip?
Skip: Me? Oh not so bad. I’ve been dealing with a few issues in my office which have caused some minor setbacks recently, but essentially I am good. How about you Dez? How is family life treating you?
Dez: Well, thanks for asking. Well, the big news here is Roxie and I have just bought a flat in Scotland.
Skip: Nice! Congratulations.
Dez: Thanks Skip. But unfortunately this investment will be taking most of our salaries for the next 20 years.
Skip: That is if you are still around in 20 years. You don’t lead the healthiest of lifestyles Dez.
Dez: That is certainly a consideration but I imagine the world will be a very different place by then.
Skip: It most definitely will.
Dez: I wonder if we'll all be driving around in self-controlled electric flying cars, living in solar heated and cooled apartments that are floating in the clouds, and if everyone will have a computers strapped to their wrists that are more powerful than a supercomputer today?
Skip: Actually, with the advances in technology over the last 20 years, that scenario doesn’t sound too far off. But I am sure that fossil fuels will continue to play a big part in our lives for the foreseeable future, especially now with the recent discoveries of shale oil in the US.
Dez: Maybe. I still prefer my version though. Anyway Skip is that our story for today, shale oil?
Skip: Well partly. Today we’ll be talking not only about shale oil and the countries with the biggest reserves but also we’ll be taking a look at the advent of a new oil drilling technique known as fracking, as well as how all of this will affect the energy markets moving into into the future.
Dez: Okay, lets do it. Let’s get D2B...Down to Business with...with that list of topics that Skip just rattled off.
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16 min
June 26, 2014 D2B 070 | Roundup Edition
Today on Down to Business English, Skip Montreux and Dez Morgan update several of the business news stories they have reported on in recent episodes.
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Skip: A big hello to all of our listeners out there. Welcome to a new episode of Down to Business English, the show that helps you build your base of professional vocabulary through discussing the latest in business news.
Dez: And a big hello to you too Skip.
Skip: I’m sorry. Hello to you Dez.
Dez: Hello Skip.
Skip: Okay, now that we have all greeted each other, how are things?
Dez: Well my wife Roxie and our new baby daughter have just gone on a trip back to Scotland for a week.
Skip: Oh nice, so you are free then! Are you going to paint the town red. Party every night till dawn. Get out your old dancing shoes maybe?
Dez: No Skip. I am going to take it pretty easy. Maybe get a takeaway, get out some of the Playstation games that I’ve been meaning to play, maybe Skype a few people that I haven’t spoke to in a while and check up on the prices for the Baltic Dry Index.
Skip: The Baltic what? Wait a minute, you don’t even have a Playstation, that’s way too cool for you.
Dez: You’re right. I don’t have a Playstation, and the Baltic Dry Index is the index used to calculate the cost of shipping goods transported by sea.
Skip: In the Baltic Sea?
Dez: No that’s just the name.
Skip: So, is that our story for today? Shipping charges?
Dez: Actually not really. But I am trying to create a nice segue into our episode today.
Skip: Really? I’m a bit confused.
Dez: Nothing new there. Anyway, I thought that today we could do a roundup of some of the recent stories we’ve covered here on D2B. So, of course Scottish Independence and computer games were the first two topics I mentioned. Then Skype, which is owned by Microsoft and therefore connected to the story we did on their acquisition of Nokia.
Skip: Okay, I see that now.
Dez: But I couldn’t think of anyway to shoehorn Khalifa port into the conversation so I talked about the Baltic Dry Index.
Skip: Well this is a relief. If we were doing a report on the Baltic Dry Index and shipping charges, I would need to pour myself a giant sized coffee to stay awake. So let’s do it...let’s get D2B Down to Business with updates on some of the most recent stories covered on Down to Business English.
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17 min

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A podcast for people who use English as a Second or Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) in their work environment and want to improve their overall language skills. In each episode, hosts Skip Montreux, Dez…