You want to write an email to someone you know fairly well and don’t want it to sound too formal.

What can you do?

Use contractions. 

You know those words or combinations of words that we shorten by dropping letters and replacing them with an apostrophe?

Let’s talk a closer look.

Here’s what we do.

We take out letters and add an apostrophe.

You’ll see that it feels like a person’s talking to you.

When we’re speaking, we often don’t even realise that we’re using them!

 

 

What do you do about the tasks you don’t enjoy?

Do you leave them until the end of the day or do you do them right at the beginning?

Eating the frog means starting your day with the largest, most difficult and most important task first.

It’s that task you resist most.

Is it a strategy that you use?

“Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that.” 

Pema Chödrön

Something to think about when we’re experiencing disappointment. 

Just remember that there’s learning in every situation. 

And are these diets healthy?

Watch this 5-minute TED-Ed video on Youtube to  find out (and to learn how dieters in Victorian England would swallow an unhatched tapeworm and let it grow inside them by consuming undigested meals):

Is it possible to lose weight fast? – Hei Man Chan

And don’t forget to switch the subtitles on if you need extra support.

Do you proofread your English texts before posting?

Give this easy-to-use online spelling and grammar checker a try.

The colourful underlined prompts will point out spelling errors—and make grammar or style suggestions.

And don’t forget to tell me if you use it!