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Keyword Transformations
Subject / Object Questions in Past Simple
Check out this infosheet to learn when we use the help verb ‘did’ to make questions in past simple and when we do not.
Used To
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.
How to pronounce regular verb -ed endings
Click on the link below for a full explanation 🙂
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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Presentations: Sales Revenue 2013
Can you describe the line chart here:
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:
You should also be clear on the difference between rise and raise. See a previous post of mine: rise / raise: what’s the difference?
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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.
And here’s a list of vocab and phrases that you can use at different stages.
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 to do all the same as above prior to beginning the actual presentation.
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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 in a group of related or unrelated elements. Examples:
- He is the eldest/oldest of the three children.
- Mine is the
eldest/oldest car on the block.- John is the
eldest/oldest student in my class.- She is the eldest (less common)/oldest of my nieces.
- ‘Is New York the
eldest/oldest city in the US?’
And while eldest can be used for any group of related persons (as in the above example with the nieces) in reality, it is mostly only used in reference to siblings.
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