We all have to make decisions every day. Some decisions are simple, some are more difficult.
Decision-making increasingly happens at all levels of a business, and it's an important part of being successful in business.
Do you consider yourself to be a good decision maker? What do you need to do before you make a business decision? What must you do and think about before deciding what decision to take?
In English, we divide our lives into stages which relate to our age. For example, my cousin Jake is three years old, so he is a toddler. Below are the stages listed in order, then some sentences in which you need to choose which 'stage' word fits.
What stage of your life are you in? Are you an adult who feels like a teenager?!
Harrison, who teaches at EC San francisco, shows us how we can expand our vocabulary.
Being from a seaside town myself, I'm particularly interested in how we can continue to celebrate their heritage within the UK. Recently, the national lottery has announced a fund to help seaside towns to improve their economic and social situations. This information comes from a government website and therefore has a slightly different tone to a newspaper article. What differences do you think you might notice? Read through the article and complete the gaps with the missing words.
When we want to put things in order, we use ordinal numbers so we can tell the position of that thing.
For example, if there is a road with three houses, you will pass them in order of the first house, the second and the third.
Here's an exercise to help you increase your vocabulary! Below are 8 verbs, some of which you may know, and some of which might be new to you.
Each sentence needs one of these verbs. Find the meaning of the verb and match it to the correct sentence.
I recommend reading all the sentences before making your choice.
Then, from memory, try to write your own list of verbs from A to H.
Lesson by Caroline Devane
Many people learn 'pen, pencil and paper' in their first English lessons, but can you remember these words, which are also things you would find in an office?
Match each word to its definition. What else do we find in an office?
Lesson by Caroline
Networking: - Interacting with other people to exchange information and develop contacts, especially to further your career.
This lesson will give you some good hints on successful networking, as well as helping you to practise some business vocabulary. Read through the article and try to fit the gaps with the business vocabulary listed below.
We write postcards to friends and family when we are on holiday. They are usually very short and talk about what we are doing and enjoying. I just got this postcard from my Mum and Dad, who are on holiday in Tenerife! Read through the postcard and put the words in the correct gap.
When you have finished, imagine you are on holiday and you are sending a postcard to your best friend. What would you write about? Please post your answers below!
Hi Caroline!
How much do you remember about forming active and passive sentences?
If you're unsure, have a look at this lesson before you try to answer the questions below:
Remember: Is the action being done by someone or is an action being done to something? If someone is doing the action, use the active voice and if an action is being done to something use the passive! Good luck!
Lesson by Caroline
