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Author Archives: Robert D. E. Senior
Find a tandem partner direct from your phone
There’s now even an app you can use to find a tandem partner. It works on both Android and IOS so now you really have no excuse 🙂 http://www.hellotalk.com/
Tandem in Vienna
To find a tandem partner in Vienna try: http://sprachenzentrum.univie.ac.at/content/site/spzuw/de/sprachlernboerse/pinnwand/index.html
Business English Writing: How to do a professional layout
If you want to know how a modern professional business letter/memo/fax should look like, click on the link below. Fully Blocked Style
Posted in Business English
Tagged business English writing, faxes, fully blocked style, letters, memos
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Presentations: Sales Revenue 2013
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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Tagged gradients, line chart, presentations, raise, rise, sales revenue
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Meetings Mind Map
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
Presentations: How to open proceedings
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?
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
Trauner: Men & Women keywords ansakey
09 Men & women keywords ansakey
Somebody anybody nobody etc
It’s essential that you get this right. Mixing up anybody-nobody sounds terrible in English and all it takes is a bit of study and a bit of thought. The basic rule is this: Use nobody/no-one as the subject in statements. … Continue reading
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Tagged anybody, anyone, indefinite pronouns, no-one, nobody, somebody, someone, something
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Language Hacking Tips
Here are some tips that have made a huge difference to the speed at which I learn languages: Absolutely the fastest way to improve your language skills is to use the language as soon as possible. When I learnt German … Continue reading
