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Suggestion Box Ideas – An English Conversation

In this English conversation Vicki and Kathy are opening their office suggestions box. The first idea they read is to create a Facebook page. They like it. The second idea is to have casual dress days every day of the week. They are not so sure about that. Notice the English phrases used to make suggestions in the conversation. Suggestion Box Conversation OK, let’s open the office suggestion box. Yeah! Two suggestions! That’s great. Open

August 21, 2016 2 Comments

Intermediate

Explaining a Game’s Rules – An English conversation

Vicki invites Jay to play a game. He wants to so she explains the game’s rules. They’re both going to put a sweet in their mouths at the same time. (Sweet is a British English word. Americans call it candy.) The winner will be the person who can make their sweet last the longest. Conversation transcript Do you want to play a game? Yeah. OK. You take a sweet and I’ll take a sweet. You

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Elementary

Giving Bad News

Nobody likes giving bad news. If we have to deliver it, we often like to give some good news too. But what happens if the news is all bad? Click here to see some more short conversations for speaking practice. Good news bad news joke Oh hi doctor. What’s up? I’m afraid I have some bad news and some very bad news. Oh no! Give me the bad news first. The lab called with your

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Intermediate

Asking for more time to meet a deadline

Deadlines! They’re so hard to meet when you’re busy. Here we see Vicky and Jay asking for a deadline to be extended so they can have another week. Click here to learn about the difference between the prepositions by and until. Click here to see more short conversations for speaking practice. Click here to see more Business English conversations. Deadline conversation Hey Zeynep! Hello Vicki and Jay! Did you get my email? Yes. And we’re

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Intermediate

English Business Meetings and Discussions (3 videos)

You need to attend an English meeting. Are you going to understand what everyone is saying? And are you going to be able to manage everyone’s time effectively and make good decisions? We can help! Here is a series of 3 videos designed to help you manage discussions and communicate clearly in business meetings. They focus on: 1. Managing time 2. Making Decisions 3. Achieving Understanding Make sure you scroll down to the end to

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Elementary

Do you like…? What’s it like? Two different English questions

In this video we look at two meanings of like and fix a common mistake. We’ll compare the verb like with like as a preposition and you’ll learn how to use two useful English questions: Do you like…? and What’s it like? Click here to learn how to use the phrase looks like Click here to learn about English sense verbs Click here to watch more videos about English grammar Like video script Did you

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Intermediate

Worth and Trustworthy – really useful English words

Worth – you’re going to love this adjective. It’s surprisingly useful and you can use it to make new words like trustworthy and untrustworthy. It means ‘having value’ and you just need to know how we use it. We put it in front of nouns and gerunds (-ing forms) and numbers, so we say things like ‘It’s worth $10.’ Learn this word. It’s worth it! Click here to watch this video with a clickable transcript.

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