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5 questions to guide your career choices
Are you on the right path professionally? Check out these five questions to guide your career choices. This lesson is based on Harvard Business Review management tip.
Speaking practice – a trip to the supermarket
Developing an argument – part 2 – personal comment
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5 questions to guide your career choices
Are you on the right path professionally? Check out these five questions to guide your career choices. This lesson is based on Harvard Business Review management tip.
Speaking practice – a trip to the supermarket
Practise speaking with Emma. Listen and repeat her story of an unusual meeting at a supermarket.
Developing an argument – part 2 – personal comment
Learn to add your personal comment to your speaking and writing. This is part 2 of the lesson on developing an argument. Have you done part 1 yet?
Structure your writing around one core idea
Test your prepositions in the business context – part 3
Test your prepositions in the business context – part 2
Leave a lasting memory using as few words as possible
Phrasal verbs about people and relationships with Lucy
Build luck into your Career
Unlimited memory by Kevin Horsley
How to get your boss to recognize your work
What the Navy’s TOPGUN program really teaches you with Guy Snodgrass
How to take a brain break with Jim Kwik
Language of business meetings with Lucy
Build a Stronger Work Ethic
Vocabulary about risk and danger with Lucy
English for business meetings
Negotiating deals
Buy Nothing Day
The English language is so confusing by Leikola Ismo
What we wear at -71°C in Yakutia
Talking point. Part 1. How to be diplomatic.
Test your question tags – part 1
Vocabulary about mistakes and apologies with Lucy
Seven habits of highly effective people by Stephen Covey
Vocabulary about understanding and confusion with Lucy
Make your writing clearer and more persuasive
Talking about weather – questions tags
Business writing style – clarity, simplicity and emphasis
Vocabulary about employment and company structure with Lucy
Give a Great Presentation by Engaging Your Audience
Choose Your Words Wisely When Making a Sales Pitch
Making contacts – small talk
Meet Pete – My Dream Job – Chapter 1
Test your prepositions in the business context – part 1
Uses of Present Simple and Present Continuous Tenses
Test your understanding how we use Present Simple and Present Continuous tenses in English.
Vocabulary about Moods and Feelings with Lucy
Why Having Fun Is the Secret to a Healthier Life by Catherine Price
Vocabulary about memory and learning with Lucy
Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown
Write Concisely and Clearly
How to talk about likes and dislikes with Lucy
Describing managers and colleagues with Lucy
Pinkcast. This is how to make progress every day.
Phrasal verbs about problems and environment with Lucy
The Story of Ada Lovelace: The World’s First Computer Programmer
Learn about Ada Lovelace, daughter of the famous poet Lord Byron, is considered the world’s first computer programmer.
Make yourself valuable, not irreplaceable
Hypothesizing – imaginary situations – second conditional
What’s the missing word – part 2
A lesson in word-formation. 7 key words for business English and 21 words in total. Audio examples included.