What’s the difference between a fact and an opinion?
Everybody knows the answer but it’s important to not to confuse how you express facts and opinions when you are speaking English in an important meeting or negotiation.
Our latest video shows how to make it clear that you are giving an opinion.
By Barney
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Do you need to give presentations in English?
It is important to start your presentation with a clear introduction.
In this video, Barney demonstrates a set of phrases you can use in the introduction of a business presentation.
By Barney
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The most common question language teachers hear is:
“What’s the best way to learn vocabulary?”
In their latest Prezi, Louise and Barney explain a reliable process for learning new vocabulary.
Barney and Louise
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This week we focus again on the verb get.
Get is a little word but has many uses in English. You can read about some of the meanings here.
Last time, you listened to Louise and Joy having an informal conversation on the phone.
This time, watch the video and listen to Louise and Joy talking about the problems at a company.
After you watch the video, download the activities. Try and do the first activity before you look at the transcript.
Come back on Wednesday to see the answers.
By Joy, Louise and Barney
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On Friday, we posted a new video of Joy and Louise chatting on the phone.
In that conversation they used ‘get‘ in lots of different ways.
The activities page had four exercises.
You can download the answers to those exercises here.
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This week we continue to focus on the verb get.
Get is a little word but has many uses in English. You can read about some of the meanings here.
Watch the video and listen to Louise and Joy having an informal conversation on the phone.
After you watch the video, download the activities. Try and do the first activity before you look at the transcript.
Come back on Monday to see the answers.
By Joy, Louise and Barney
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Here is our second presentation on English pronunciation.
This one focuses on the sounds of English.
The presentation covers:
As before, make sure you use the fullscreen button and turn up the sound on your computer so you can hear Louise and Barney say the example words and sentences.
Click on the picture to go to the presentation.
If you liked this, watch our Introduction to English Pronunciation.
The next presentation will be the Sounds of English – Part 2.
Barney and Louise
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Clear pronunciation is an important part of speaking a language.
Here is our list of the key aspects of English pronunciation:
We made a presentation to introduce these aspects. It explains each aspect and tell you why it is important when you are speaking in English.
The presentation is about 15-20 minutes. Make sure you click on the ‘full-screen’ button (in the bottom-right) and turn up the sound on your computer so you can see and hear everything clearly.
We hope you enjoyed this presentation.
Our next presentation will focus in more detail on the sounds of English.
Here is the link to the chart of the sounds you saw in the presentation. You can click to hear each sound.
Barney and Louise
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This time, we look at a group of words where word stress is predictable.
All these words end in the letters:
and the sound /ʃən/
For each of these words, the strong syllable is the one before this last syllable.
Remember the word stress for ‘station’ /ˈsteɪ.ʃən/? The first syllable is the strong one because it comes before -tion.
Now watch the video to hear and practise some other examples.
Here are the words you hear in the video. with links to the Cambridge Dictionary definition and pronunciation.
If you want to practise matching these words to the phonetic symbols that show their pronunciation, here is a Quizlet study set.
By Louise and Barney
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Last time we set a quiz. We asked you to go to the Cambridge Learner’s Dictionary and find the word stress for eight words.
Here are the answers:
How many did you get correct?
Next time we will look at a predictable word stress group.
By Louise and Barney
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