понедельник, 11 марта 2019 г.

Don’t make your clients feel stupid with your ‘fancy’ English


Double Negatives


I made an embarrassing mistake the other day. I wrote "I can't hardly believe..." when I should have written "I can hardly believe..."

English Mania

Jay Walker explains why two billion people around the world are trying to learn English. He shares photos and spine-tingling audio of Chinese students rehearsing English -- "the world's second language" -- by the thousands.

Brand names that are used as ordinary words


a Breathalyzer n
a machine that can tell you how much alcohol you've drunk
inline skates n
a type of shoe with a line of four or five wheels. Also called Rollerblades
roller-skates n
shoes with four small wheels on the bottom

Effective Business Communicator

Idiom "barrel of laughs"

воскресенье, 10 марта 2019 г.

Gerunds and Infinitives

Fill in the blanks:


1. I hope you don’t mind …………….. leaving early.