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Fun with Business English

Most students who want to learn business English are interested in understanding technical terms and phrases like force majeure, marginal cost and vertical integration. However when they get in the...

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Funny Football Phrases

In getting back to normal life after the aforementioned personal crises, I immediately downloaded back episodes of my favorite podcasts that I missed over the last few weeks. Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me...

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Budgeting for a budget that has been budgeted!

Some Business English for you guys. One of my classes the other day had a really hard time understanding the difference between: A budget To budget To budget for To be on budget So, I'll briefly...

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A Pie in the Face May be Funny, But It’s Not Fun

In a recent post, I talked about mondegreens and silly lyrics in pop music. Last night while watching Mama Mia, I came across another pop song that serves as a fabulous teaching tool because it...

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Quirks of Singaporean English

I just read a fascinating post on English in Singapore. Specifically, how they love to use modal verbs. For example, answering requests with "can": Could you please get me a copy of this document when...

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Words in the News: Hung Parliament

I was going to write about this since many people have been following the UK elections, but in searching for a good clear explanation, I found that Wil's World of Words had beaten me to it. So as he...

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Vocabulary Acquisition: Personal Experience

I've been reading a lot lately about how students of a language learn new words. 26 Letters has had some nice articles on this lately including this one, which started me on this quest to learn more....

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A Game for Learning New Words

A method for learning and retaining new vocabulary that you can use, or teach to your students. It has worked very well for me in moving quickly from exposure to a new word or chunk to using it well.

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