Is it worth paying the extra to fly business class? Vicki and Jay think it is, but their boss disagrees. In this funny English conversation they try to persuade her that its worth it. Business class conversation script Hi Kathy. How are you? Fine. You know we’re both flying to Frankfurt next month? Yes. Can […]
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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
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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
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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
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The English words sympathetic and nice are false friends in many languages, so English learners might think they mean one thing when in fact they mean another. Let us help you get them right. The meaning of sympathetic is more specific than kind or nice in English. It involves understanding other people’s feelings, especially when
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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
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Say and tell – English learners often make mistakes with these verbs. There are situations where we can use either, but there are also situations where only one is correct. Another tricky thing is the grammar patterns tell and say follow. Tell is followed by and object but say isn’t, so we say something but
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The verbs miss and lose have several different meanings and they can be confusing. In some languages there are situations where one verb covers them both. But they have different meanings in English, so let’s see how we use them so you can avoid mistakes. We have lots of examples here. Click here to see a
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Are you working hard or hardly working? What’s the difference? Learn how to use the words hard and hardly correctly and avoid a common mistake. Click here to see more grammar videos. Click here to see more vocabulary videos. Be careful with these words. If you use them wrongly, you might say the opposite of
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Suggest is a tricky verb in English. We use it in lots of different grammatical structures, but there are some where we don’t use it as well. For example, we might suggest doing something but we don’t say suggest to do or suggest me. These phrases are wrong. Also when you want to make a
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