English Language Articles

Latest Articles & Notes on English

• 80 British gestures - List of UK gestures, with meanings of gestures used in the United Kingdom and how to make them.
• Differences between British and American emails - Explanations of the differences between UK and US emails, including opening and closing British and American emails, and requests, apologies, instructions and job applications in the UK and USA.
• How to complain and deal with complaints on the phone - What to say and what not to say when you complain by telephone and receive complaints on the phone.
• The 100 most useful phrases for business meetings - The most important phrases for taking part in business meeting in English.
• 25 stupid things about Cambridge First Certificate - 25 illogical parts of FCE that Cambridge need to change, and in the meantime teachers and students have to cope with.
• How to leave and take telephone messages - What to do and say when dictating and taking dictation on the telephone, with useful leaving and taking messages phrases and common mistakes when dealing with dictating on the phone.
• The 100 most useful emailing phrases - A carefully chosen list of essential language for the beginning, body and ending of formal and informal English emails.
• How to end phone calls smoothly and politely - What to do and what not to do when bringing calls to a close, including tips, useful telephoning phrases, and typical mistakes when ending calls.
• 20 things wrong with most self-study books - The biggest problems with self-study EFL materials.
• How to start phone calls in English - How to begin telephone calls, chat at the start of calls and move smoothly to the topic of the call, for both callers and people answering the phone.