How to introduce yourself in presentations
Category: General Articles
Topic: General
Tips and phrases for connecting with the audience and hooking them into the presentation topic with personal information
How to deal with difficult questions in a presentation
Category: General Articles
Topic: General
Tactics and phrases for dealing with tricky questions in a presentation Q&A
A guide to rude, offensive, insulting and taboo gestures for EFL learners
Category: Body Language and Gestures
Topic: General
Body language and gestures which can insult or offend people inside and outside English-speaking countries.
Cultural differences in telephoning
Category: Telephoning
Topic: General
Cultural variations in making phone calls from country to country, including differences in starting calls, ending calls, taking messages, etc.
How to end phone calls smoothly and politely
Category: Telephoning
Topic: General
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.
How to start phone calls in English
Category: Telephoning
Topic: General
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.
The 100 most useful telephoning phrases
Category: Telephoning
Topic: General
A carefully chosen list of the most important phrases for making and receiving business and personal telephone calls, including lots of useful language for starting and ending calls, dealing with communication problems, taking and leaving messages, etc.
Why does my teacher not speak more slowly?
Category: Learning English
Topic: General
Reasons why teachers sometimes speak at a speed at which students can't understand everything that they say - both good ones and bad ones - with possible student reactions.
Why does my teacher make me correct my own answers?
Category: Learning English
Topic: General
A number of reasons why your teacher might make you correct your own answers
Activities for conversation exchanges
Category: Learning English
Topic: General
Some ideas for using language exchange sites
Combining history topics and English grammar
Category: General Articles
Topic: General
Activities suitable for English through History classes, CLIL classes, as supplementary activities when there are historical topics in an EFL textbook, or as grammar practice
Why does my teacher skip exercises in the textbook?
Category: Learning English
Topic: General
One of the ESL classroom mysteries explained
Descriptive and Prescriptive Grammar
Category: General Articles
Topic: General
A look at the prescriptive and descriptive approaches to English grammar.
Concordancers
Category: General Articles
Topic: General
A summary of what a concordancer does, and how it can be used.
Number of
Category: English Grammar
Topic: General
When to use a singular or a plural verb with the word 'number'.