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Your ultimate guide to Language Skills

What are language skills? Speaking Listening Reading Writing Whatever language you are learning these skills are key to fully mastering...

Your Ultimate Guide to Instant Message (IM) speak!

Joanne

Dec 105 min read

Your Ultimate Guide to Instant Message (IM) speak!

I don't know about you but I'm often confused by IM speak. Maybe it's my age or I've just not bothered to keep up to date with the latest...

Joanne

Nov 274 min read

Travel guide: Durham

Looking for a city trip to the UK and you've been to London before? Why not try Durham? It's located in the north east of England and is...

Joanne

Nov 54 min read

Travel Guide: Cornwall

When you think of travelling to the UK do you immediately think London? There is so much for everyone to do there and so many well-known...

Joanne

Oct 294 min read

Travel Guide: Northumberland

When you think of travelling to the UK do you immediately think London? There is so much for everyone to do there and so many well-known...

Joanne

Oct 172 min read

How to: attend an interview in English

You have written a great covering letter and CV to get this far. Well done! Remember this as you go into your interview. You have a lot...

How to: Apply for a job in English, 5 tips for writing a covering letter

Joanne

Oct 93 min read

How to: Apply for a job in English, 5 tips for writing a covering letter

A covering letter, or letter of motivation, is something we are advised to include when sending our CV to apply for a job. Use your...

Your Ultimate Guide to Attending a Conference in English

Joanne

Sep 175 min read

Your Ultimate Guide to Attending a Conference in English

Attending a conference isn't only about listening to the speakers it is also, if not even more so, about who you talk to while you are...

Your Guide to: handling a telephone call in English

Joanne

Sep 165 min read

Your Guide to: handling a telephone call in English

You're familiar with the scenario, a customer calls and wants to speak to you in English. Is your first reaction to panic? If so read...

How to: Write a work process description in English, 5 tips you can use today

Joanne

Sep 92 min read

How to: Write a work process description in English, 5 tips you can use today

Working for a multinational organisation means that work processes need to be shared across regions. Using a clear structure and linking...

How to: Handle a complaint in English, 5 language tips you can use today

Joanne

Sep 23 min read

How to: Handle a complaint in English, 5 language tips you can use today

A complaint from a customer is the last thing we want to hear. However, with the right language to handle a problem, and a good attitude,...

Formal and informal emails. What's the difference and why is it important?

Joanne

Aug 264 min read

Formal and informal emails. What's the difference and why is it important?

Using these 7 tips you can achieve the correct tone in your work and personal emails.

Joanne

May 212 min read

How does it work? The past continuous

The past continuous tells us what was happening, at the same time as another event, in the past. When you called me, I was watching...

How does it work? The present continuous

Joanne

Apr 222 min read

How does it work? The present continuous

The present continuous is used to talk about what is happening now, in this moment. The construction of the present continuous is as...

Joanne

Apr 113 min read

How does it work? The past simple

This tense is perhaps the least 'simple' of all! We use it to talk about something that happened in the past where both the start and end...

Joanne

Mar 252 min read

How does it work? The present simple.

This was probably the first tense, or time period, that you learnt when you started studying English grammar. For this reason it's...

What's the difference between... will and would?

Joanne

Mar 182 min read

What's the difference between... will and would?

Will is used to talk about the present or the future. Would is the past tense form of will, so is used to talk about the past. It can...

What's the difference between... from and since?

Joanne

Mar 112 min read

What's the difference between... from and since?

Both words are used to talk about the start time of an activity but are used differently. From Is used to talk about when an activity is...

Joanne

Mar 42 min read

9 ways to remember or to remind

To remember or to remind. What's the difference? They are both verbs relating to memory. To remember is something you do when thinking...

Joanne

Feb 192 min read

11 examples of adjective word order

Adjectives are the words used to describe a noun (a person or thing), for example: the red box, the quiet mouse, the big cat, the fast...