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About Robert D. E. Senior

Fully qualified and experienced Professional English teacher / trainer UK native speaker BA (hons, first class) Linguistics and TEFL 15 years experience in UK, Spain and Austria FCE - CAE - CPE - BEC V - BEC H - TOEFL - IELTS Business, Academic and General English

likely / unlikely

Posted on June 11, 2017 by Robert D. E. Senior

See here for an explanation and here for a few exercises.

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Subject / Object Questions in Past Simple

Posted on May 6, 2017 by Robert D. E. Senior

Check out this infosheet to learn when we use the help verb ‘did’ to make questions in past simple and when we do not. Simple Past Subject and Object qs

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Used To

Posted on October 20, 2016 by Robert D. E. Senior

See the ‘used to info sheet’ below for a thorough explanation of how ‘used to’ works and the ‘would for past habits’ info sheet for a comparison to the use of ‘would’ in a similar sense. used-to-info-sheet would-for-past-habits

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How to pronounce regular verb -ed endings

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Robert D. E. Senior

Click on the link below for a full explanation 🙂 https://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/-ed.htm

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Numbers in English

Posted on April 13, 2015 by Robert D. E. Senior

How to say numbers in English: Numbers in English

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Business English Writing: How to do a professional layout

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Robert D. E. Senior

If you want to know how a modern professional business letter/memo/fax should look like, click on the link below. Fully Blocked Style

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Presentations: Sales Revenue 2013

Posted on November 20, 2014 by Robert D. E. Senior

Can you describe the line chart here: Sales Revenue 2013 Here’s a worksheet and ansakey that will help with the language you’ll need: Describing Graphs & Gradients // Describing Graphs & Gradients Ansakey And here’s one we did earlier: line chart You should … Continue reading →

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Meetings Mind Map

Posted on November 15, 2014 by Robert D. E. Senior

Here’s a mind map with verb collocations for ‘a meeting’ (e.g. open a meeting), three typical phrases for getting out of a meeting (= avoiding having to attend) and some meetings associated vocab. Meeting mind map And here’s a list of vocab … Continue reading →

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Presentations: How to open proceedings

Posted on November 15, 2014 by Robert D. E. Senior

The pdf gives you a very clear overview with specific language for The Host: how to greet people, welcome them, thank them for coming, refer to particular groups of people, introduce yourself, introduce the presenter, introduce the topic and hand over. The Presenter: how … Continue reading →

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oldest / eldest : what’s the difference?

Posted on November 8, 2014 by Robert D. E. Senior

Adapted from http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/9525/whats-the-difference-between-eldest-and-oldest Both eldest and oldest refer to the greatest in age. The crucial difference, however, lies in the fact that eldest can only be used for related persons, while oldest can be used for any person, place or thing … Continue reading →

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