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Presentation Introduction Phrases Toolbox

Key to success Making an effective presentation introduction is key to the success of your presentation. Not only will it give you confidence and a strong foundation to build on, it will also instill confidence in the listener, showing them that you are well prepared and have taken the presentation seriously. So how do you […]

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Email Phrases: Getting the Tone Right

Adapting your message It can be difficult to know what email phrases to use in your business emails. This depends on whom your audience is, and if the business situation is formal or informal.  You don’t want your emails to make a business partner uncomfortable, so it is important to use the correct email phrases […]

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Evaluating an Idea: Quick Email Phrases

What do you think? Evaluating an idea without causing offense can be challenging at times. Often it is a colleague, client or your boss who wants to know what you think of an idea. Sometimes you think it’s great, sometimes you don’t, and sometimes you’re going to need to know more before you can respond. […]

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Handling Complaints Quickly: Phrases to Help

Avoid having small issues escalate into big ones Handling complaints quickly can help your company avoid having small issues escalate into big ones. This summer I had the pleasure of taking my five year old to a well-known fun park on a beautiful, but scorching hot August day. For those of you who haven’t been […]

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Reacting to Bad News: Tips for Email Phrases

Reacting to bad news Reacting to bad news in a prompt, well-written way can convey a powerful message: not only are you concerned about your business relationships, you also care about how your clients and colleagues are doing personally, too. If a client cancels a meeting because something unfortunate has happened in their lives, take […]

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Writing Emails: 20 phrases for closing an email

A common problem we hear is how writing emails in English can cost just too much time. One solution that works for many people is to begin building a “toolbox” of useful phrases.  It’s a simple idea– you just start keeping a list of common and useful expression, perhaps on your desktop or in a […]

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Teleconference Tips and Phrases

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Timekeeping in Meetings

Timekeeping in meetings is essential to make sure that the meeting is as efficient as possible. That’s why using the right phrases to indicate the timing of a meeting is so important. In this tip you will learn some useful phrases for timekeeping in meetings. Listen to the audio; a moderator is speaking about timekeeping […]

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Finance Idioms

Idioms are words, phrases or expressions that are commonly used in everyday conversation by native speakers of English. For example, many people know the idiom “it’s raining cats and dogs,” which means, “it’s raining very hard.” There are many idioms in English related to finance and money. Can you find the correct meaning for the […]

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Making Data Interesting

Let’s be honest, data-heavy, number-driven presentations are rarely the most engaging and entertaining. It can be a big challenge to make these presentations interesting across your organisation. One simple way to make figures easier to digest is to use phrases for rounding the numbers. The phrase that you use can also determine where you put […]

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Ending a Small Talk Conversation

Small talk seems so insignificant and informal, so how can it be one of the hardest things to do in English? Perhaps because it has no formal rules it feels more difficult to know what to say, and perhaps the hardest part is ending a conversation when you want to get away. How can you […]

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How to Chair a Meeting

The chairperson of any meeting has a number of important functions and is ultimately responsible for the success of that meeting. Many of these functions have their own special vocabulary of words and phrases. Listen to the eight extracts of people chairing meetings and choose the correct word or phrase to complete the sentences according […]

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Talking about the Weather

A lot of people dislike small talk, especially talking about the weather. However, the weather can be an interesting and easy topic, especially in recent times when climate change has caused a lot of unusual and extreme weather. Listen to the conversation below about two people discussing the weather. Did you catch everything? Test your […]

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Asking People to Wait on the Phone

Talking on the phone can often be difficult and stressful. Sometimes you need the other person to wait while you think or find information, and you can’t use body language or facial expressions to communicate this. Today we are going to look at ways you can ask people to wait. Listen to the conversations below […]

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Asking for Repetition and Clarifying

Sometimes it’s difficult to communicate on the phone.  If you find yourself having trouble understanding someone, a victim of communication breakdown, listen to the audio which includes some useful phrases for those situations. Check out the quiz and see if you caught the phrases used in the audio. Refresh this page to try the quiz […]

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Clinching a Deal

The final stages of a negotiation don’t always go as smoothly as we’d like.  This tip deals with a number of common situations from these closing stages, and provides some useful phrases for managing them. Listen to four extracts from the later stages of a negotiation. Then try out the quiz! Dialogue 1 Dialogue 2 […]

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Follow Up Emails

We have all been in a situation where we urgently need a response on a topic and our follow up emails are simply not getting us an answer.  We often assume the recipient has more pressing matters and fear being annoying.  However, there are some strategies that help getting the response you need. Here are […]

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Apologizing via Email

As much as we try to avoid them, mistakes happen, and when they do an apology is often necessary to fix the situation. It is normally better to apologize in person, either face to face or on the telephone.  However, in some situations, for example time is of the essence or you want everyone to […]

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Formal Vs Informal Emails

We write a formal email when we want to be polite, or when we do not know the reader very well. Although a lot of work emails are informal these days, we still need to write formal emails for serious issues (e.g. an overdue invoice that has to be paid). We write informal emails when […]