by Christine Burgmer | Apr 30, 2016 | Allgemein |
A software, hardware and marketing manager are driving to a meeting when a tyre bursts. They get out of the car to look at the problem. The software manager says, “I can’t do anything about this. It’s a hardware problem.” The hardware manager...
by Christine Burgmer | Apr 29, 2016 | Allgemein |
16Personalities offers a free online personality test. It only takes about 12 minutes to complete and is quite eye-opening. I’m a campaigner, and my motto is: What do you mean life is boring? Are we living on the same planet? And what are...
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by Christine Burgmer | Apr 28, 2016 | Allgemein |
When pronouncing the word “Antarctica”, remember not to drop the first ‘c’. It’s not “Ant-AR-tica”. It’s “Ant-ARC-tica”. You can listen to the pronunciation by going to www.dict.cc and clicking on the litte...
by Christine Burgmer | Apr 27, 2016 | Allgemein |
Why don’t women speak up at meetings? Listen to researcher Victoria Brescoll explain how gender affects business meetings (link to: bbc.co.uk) in this short audio clip.
by Christine Burgmer | Apr 26, 2016 | Allgemein |
We talked about question tags some time ago. Would you like to test yourself to see if you’ve understood the concept? Do the test here (link to: grammar.cl). If you need help with the grammar rules again, take a look at this page here.
by Christine Burgmer | Apr 25, 2016 | Allgemein |
“If you have nothing to say, say nothing.” Mark Twain
