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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
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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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Writing Skills: How to write a letter to the editor
If you ever need to write a ‘letter’ (these days more likely an email) to the editor of a newspaper, either in real life or more probably when practising for an exam, here’s some guidance on how to do it: … Continue reading
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Tagged editor, emails, letter to the editor, letters
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e.g. / i.e. : what’s the difference?
The Latin abbreviations e.g. and i.e. are commonly used in English, and nearly as commonly mixed up. Below is a clear explanation, which can also be found online at it’s original home: http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/difficulties/egie.html. I should also point out that these days you can write both … Continue reading
IMF under growing pressure to appoint non-European head
Here’s another business/current affairs article. I use these articles in my in-company sessions. I give the participants the articles to read for homework and then have them come up with five questions to ask each other in the next session. … Continue reading
The Credit Rating Agencies…
Here’s the next business article for the Bec H group: The credit rating agencies (All articles are sourced from http://www.guardian.co.uk/business)
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Business articles: Bonuses: why bankers just don’t get it
Those of you studying BEC Higher should be reading at least one article a week. My suggestion is that you write a short summary and hand it in. Hopefully, I’ll be posting one every week from now on, here’s the … Continue reading
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Tagged BEC H, bec higher, Bonuses, Business articles, business english
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Floating Exchange Rate
I was asked about this in a Bec Higher group, so here you go: According to http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/floating-currency.html, which I have no reason to doubt, a floating currency is a currency with a floating exchange rate. And according to http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/floating-exchange-rate.html a floating exchange rate is … Continue reading
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