Joanne Reilly 
English Academy
 

A covering letter, or letter of motivation, is something we are advised to include when sending our CV to apply for a job. Use your...

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...

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...

Working for a multinational organisation means that work processes need to be shared across regions. Using a clear structure and linking...

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,...

Using these 7 tips you can achieve the correct tone in your work and personal emails.

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...

The present continuous is used to talk about what is happening now, in this moment. The construction of the present continuous is as...

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...

This was probably the first tense, or time period, that you learnt when you started studying English. For this reason it's probably the one that is the most forgotten. You move on to more complicated grammatical structures and the building blocks of present simple are forgotten. Here's a quick reminder. The structure is as follows: Positive Negative Question I work.

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...

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...

To remember or to remind. What's the difference? They are both verbs relating to memory. To remember is something you do when thinking...

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...

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....

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?...

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,...

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...

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!...

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....