You want to give a wonderful presentation, but are not sure how to create good-looking slides. This slideshow (link to: slideshare.net) is guaranteed to give you some excellent tips. You’ll find everything you need to know about colours, fonts, textures and background images – and it’s fun to watch!
We use punctuation in our writing to show pauses and emphasis. Do you need help in learning when and how to use the various punctuation marks? I think this brief overview (link to Purdue OWL) might be able to help you.
According to this article on inc.com, it’s so easy to increase employees morale. It might not be what you expect, though. It’s not the incentives and the bonuses that employees need, it’s compassion. But, perhaps you knew this all along! 😉
A woman goes to see her doctor with a cucumber in her left ear, a banana in her right ear and a carrot up her nose. “What on earth is the matter with me?” she asks. The doctor replies, “You’re not eating properly.”
“What on earth …?” = “Was um Himmels willen …?”
Are you an “energiser” or a “de-energiser” at work? Take a close look at the eight questions in Gretchen Rubin’s article to find out.
The list of words with different meanings in American and British English goes on …
British American
railway railroad
return trip round trip
rubber eraser
rubbish garbage, trash
sweets candy
