English Listening Practice British Council Podcast - Art&Business

Have you ever thought that We could apply art into our business, to make it more creative? Why don’t we get more information and learn English through the English Listening practice.

Art&Business

Why are the arts important?

With the current development trends, Productivity is no longer a matter of machines, because the arts play a vital part in our life. The arts not only help us find ourselves, but also the leaders become more trustful due to making many wiser decisions.

How do the arts have impacts on business?

There are 4 apparent contributions of the art into the business

1. Metaphors: innovative metaphors are the perfect tools for communicating, for looking for new points of view, and etc…
2. Artistic capabilities: Artistic capabilities and competencies vary from communication to representation that helps people.
3. Artistic events: Deliberate using ambiguity have a lot of impacts on various fields from arranging events such as “concert of ideas” to teambuilding, improvisation practice etc…
4. Artistic products: in this area, the arts aid people in diverse subjects from product design to training program, or change processes etc.

This is a contemporary development of the world, let’s learn about the situation from the English practice below.

Short Description

In this English Listening Practice, an interview from radio from a manager whose company are assisting other companies or organizations in becoming more creative by the arts. In the show, he will talk how much the arts influences the business in various aspects. Moreover, as I mentioned, the successful managers choose what books to read. Let’s find it out.

Tips for the English Listening Practice.

So the tip for listening practice is to do exercise at the first half of the video, then taking few minutes to check the answer. Finally, you will listen this English practice with subtitle for one more time ,so you can check the spelling and check your answer. At the end of the video, there are answers for the task.

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Extra task

Before starting the video, we take a look on some questions below:

1. From a lot of ways to stimulate creativity, in this listening practice, what is the way mentions?
2. What skills referred to in this English listening do the readers combine?
3. What part of the brain interprets languages? 
4. What are way used to improve communication and morale at work?

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