LESSONS
Learning English is an important section of The Blue Tree.
By improving your grammar, everyday English, vocabulary range and your business English you open many doors to exciting new knowledge.
There is so much we can learn abou the world, people and ideas, but so much of this knowledge is still only available for people who speak English well.
List of areas
Learning English section is divided into five areas.
They will help you improve your business English skills, understand and use English grammar. You will also learn practical everyday English expressions. There are many lessons on vocabulary too. Finally, there are tests and quizzes which will help you see if you are making progress in your mastery of the English language.
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Business English
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English Grammar
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Everyday English
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Learn Words
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Tests & Quizzes
WHAT'S NEW
Managing up
How can an employee manage their bosses? They need to learn how to manage up. That’s what this lesson is about.
Business Phrasal Verbs – part 2
So you want to be an architect – part 1
Learn what it means to be an architect from Doug Patt. Did you know that an architect is also an inventor?
CATALOGUE OF LESSONS
Managing up
How can an employee manage their bosses? They need to learn how to manage up. That’s what this lesson is about.
Business Phrasal Verbs – part 2
Check your phrasal verbs in some business context.
So you want to be an architect – part 1
Learn what it means to be an architect from Doug Patt. Did you know that an architect is also an inventor?
Idioms with brain and mind and left-right brain dominance
This lesson teaches some cool idioms with brain and mind and explores the topic of left-right brain dominance.
Testujemy Metody – Comparative and superlative adjectives
SPECIAL LESSON – Test six ways of learning grammar. Become an expert at creating and using comparative and superlative adjectives.
Talking Picture – Goals
Let’s talk about goals. Answer some questions about setting goals and study a few model answers.
How Social Media Keeps You Poor
Idioms and metaphors – Happiness is Yellow
How to talk about happiness in English? Actually, you will be surprised how many idioms and metaphors there are to talk about being happy in English.
Idioms and metaphors – organization is growth and plants
Time Traveler’s Dilemma
TALKING PICTURE – Party
Ricardo Semler of Semco
General English Grammar – Diagnostic Test
How to express contrast – advanced level
Idioms with parts of the body
A Tale of Two Lives – story-based vocabulary test
General Vocabulary Test – diagnostic test
5 Ways People Are Dumb With Money
This lesson is about how people make predictable financial mistakes. It discusses five common financial mistakes: the endowment effect, the sunk cost fallacy, transaction utility, mental accounting, and the tendency to spend unexpected income on frivolous things.
Idioms and metaphors: a project is a race
Idioms and metaphors: office is a battlefield
Do you have an Elizabeth in your organization
Talking picture – Rest
Talking picture – Friendship
Talking picture – age
I wish, if only, it’s time and would rather
How to talk about friends and friendship
How to Handle Four Common Types of Team Conflict
Meetings on the go
He lied to me – how to talk about being angry
What You Need to Have a Strong Executive Presence
Learn what you need to increase your chances of becoming a leader in your organisation. Follow the advice from the HBR article: “The New Rules of Executive Presence,” by Sylvia Ann Hewlett