What’s the best way to make a request in English? You might say: “Give it to me!” or more politely, you might ask “if it’s no trouble, would you mind giving it to me?” In this video we will show you 6 extremely useful ways to ask for something and explain when each way is […]
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Here’s another video in our series with Super Agent Awesome on British and American English word differences. In this video we look at differences like zit and spot and say what we’d call them in British and American English. This time the words include: band aid – plaster zit or pimple – spot caravan –
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Find out how Vicki and Jay lost 80 lbs and learn lots of useful English weight loss vocabulary. For example:put on weightgain weightlose weightplump, chubbycalorie counting dietscrash dietsfad dietslow carb/ high carb dietsvegan dietgoing on a dietgetting back on a dietbreak your dietruin your dietplateaucut back oncut down oncut outfull, full upendurancewatch your weight Some
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Sight and Vision Vocabulary So Vicki, what are you wearing over your right eye?This is my eye guard and I’m wearing it to protect my eye. I don’t actually need to be wearing it indoors. But I wear it when I go to bed at night.But why do you have it?Because I’ve had cataract surgery.Ah.We’re
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Learn some common English idioms and the stories that lie behind them. We’ll show you what they mean and also how to use them in action. They include:from the horse’s mouthlooking a gift horse in the mouthbottoms uprule of thumba red herringbest manThis is the third in a series of videos on the etymology of
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How do Americans pronounce the word gyro? And what about the word mandatory? I was surprised! Here’s another video in our series with Super Agent Awesome on British and American English vocabulary differences. In this video we look at differences like drapes and curtains and barrette and slide and we explain what we’d call them
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Clear communication is vital in English online meetings. You have to do a lot more checking to make sure that everyone is on the same page and understanding one another. In this video we look at some phrases that can make your communication extra clear and help you mange the interraction and discussion.They include phrases
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Jay shares his tips for online meetings and we look at some useful English phrases you can use for handling the technology. For example: Can you unmute yourself? Can you put yourself on mute? Can you adjust your mike? Could you speak one at a time please? Can everyone see me now? I’m pulling up
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Here’s another in our series with Super Agent Awesome on British and American English word differences. We’ll look at differences like rain boots and wellies and dumpster and skip and say what we’d call different things in British and American English. Some of the other words we explore in this video include rain coats and
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The customer is always right, or are they? In this video you’ll see two versions of a conversation where a customer makes a complaint. The first is a bad model and the second a good one. We’ll use them to compare the English we use to handle complaints. Here are the top takeaways:1. Saying sorry
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