Your Ultimate Guide to Attending a Conference in English
Attending a conference isn't only about listening to the speakers it is also, if not even more so, about who you talk to while you are...
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Joanne
- 3 days ago
- 5 min
Your Guide to: handling a telephone call in English
You're familiar with the scenario, a customer calls and wants to speak to you in English. Is your first reaction to panic? If so read...
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Joanne
- Sep 9
- 2 min
How to: Write a work process description in English, 5 tips you can use today
Working for a multinational organisation means that work processes need to be shared across regions. Using a clear structure and linking...
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Joanne
- Sep 2
- 3 min
How to: Handle a complaint in English, 5 language tips you can use today
A complaint from a customer is the last thing we want to hear. However, with the right language to handle a problem, and a good attitude,...
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Joanne
- Aug 26
- 4 min
Formal and informal emails. What's the difference and why is it important?
Using these 7 tips you can achieve the correct tone in your work and personal emails.
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Joanne
- May 21
- 2 min
How does it work? The past continuous
The past continuous tells us what was happening, at the same time as another event, in the past. When you called me, I was watching...
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Joanne
- Apr 22
- 2 min
How does it work? The present continuous
The present continuous is used to talk about what is happening now, in this moment. The construction of the present continuous is as...
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Joanne
- Apr 11
- 3 min
How does it work? The past simple
This tense is perhaps the least 'simple' of all! We use it to talk about something that happened in the past where both the start and end...
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Joanne
- Mar 25
- 2 min
How does it work? The present simple.
This was probably the first tense, or time period, that you learnt when you started studying English grammar. For this reason it's...
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Joanne
- Mar 18
- 2 min
What's the difference between... will and would?
Will is used to talk about the present or the future. Would is the past tense form of will, so is used to talk about the past. It can...
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Joanne
- Mar 11
- 2 min
What's the difference between... from and since?
Both words are used to talk about the start time of an activity but are used differently. From Is used to talk about when an activity is...
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Joanne
- Mar 4
- 2 min
9 ways to remember or to remind
To remember or to remind. What's the difference? They are both verbs relating to memory. To remember is something you do when thinking...
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Joanne
- Feb 19
- 2 min
11 examples of adjective word order
Adjectives are the words used to describe a noun (a person or thing), for example: the red box, the quiet mouse, the big cat, the fast...
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Joanne
- Feb 12
- 2 min
5 subject and object questions
Are you doing something? Or is something being done to you? This is the starting point for deciding the subject or object of a sentence....
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Joanne
- Feb 5
- 2 min
How often do you do something?
Which word means you do something more; often or sometimes? Do you often go to the gym in the evening? Or do you sometimes read a book?...
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Joanne
- Jan 29
- 2 min
1 question...Do you have a little time for a quiz?
Few or a few? Little or a little? What's the difference you might ask? Let's start with few and little. Few is used with countable nouns,...
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Joanne
- Jan 22
- 2 min
7 sentence quiz using little or few
This is something that I hear people getting mixed up quite often, so I decided to look into the rules for when to use little and when to...
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Joanne
- Jan 15
- 2 min
5 ways to talk about location
As well as using in, on or at to talk about location (see below for my earlier posts) we can add 'of'' for some more advanced language!...
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Joanne
- Jan 8
- 2 min
9 ways to test your knowledge of much and many
How much ice-cream would you like? How many scoops of ice-cream would you like? We use much when we cannot count the amount of something....
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Joanne
- Dec 18, 2023
- 2 min
7 ways to test your knowledge of this, that, these and those
We use the words this, that, these and those to indicate, to point to, or to refer to things that are usually in our immediate...
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