Dr Chris Bruton is Chief Executive of the Cavendish Consultancy, a corporate entertainment company. 

Listen to the first part of the interview and answer these questions.

Listen to the second part. What is surprising about how the financial sector has reacted to the latest recession?

Listen to the third part. What makes a corporate event successful? Complete these notes.

Listen to the final part and answer these questions.

In groups, discuss these questions.

1 What event would you most like to be invited to? Why?

2 How does entertaining affect a company’s image? 

3 When can corporate entertainment become bribery?

Listen to five conversations at a conference. 

Match the speakers in each one, then decide whether they know each other or not.

Try to complete the gaps in Conversation 4. Then listen again and check your answers.