Hiking for words Photo: Eyres/NZTB

How would you like to improve your English while playing golf or sunbathing on the beach in Florida? How about a business English course in South Africa with a whale-watching trip included? Or maybe a hike around the active volcanoes at the Tongariro National Park in New Zealand would interest you more? In our special report on business English in Business Spotlight 1/05, Vicki Sussens-Messerer looks into the trend of specialist courses that combine learning with leisure. The above are just a few of the many original courses on offer today. In our report, you can also read about how schools are introducing business English to the curriculum. We've put some extracts from the report online:

• Playing to learn:
  Learning at your leisure



• Case study:
  Golf and English



• Bringing business into school:
  The missing language



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