The wonderful world of pop
I often get strange looks when I say things like “Just pop it (down) there, please” – I’m sure I don’t need to explain why. No, it wasn’t a slip of the pen – the…
Tuesday Teasers. Correct these if you can.
There’s the saying, “learn from your mistakes”, better still, learn from someone else’s mistake so you don’t make them in the future. In these situations I asked some (pre-)/intermediate level students to write a mail…
24 1/2 phrases for agreeing & disagreeing.
Check out today’s Teatime Titbit: Speak like a native: Do you have discussions in English at work? Do you often feel you’re language is somehow limited to a few phrases? Then this post might just…
Teatime Tidbits TV- your business English YouTube channel.
One of my New Year’s resolutions was to start the Teatime Tidbits TV YouTube channel and to make a new video every week. This is the ONLY resolution I actually stuck with this year and…
Remit.
A less used word for the term ‘area of responsibility’ is ‘remit’ (of somebody/something) or ‘remit’ (to do something), which means ‘the area of activity over which a particular person or group has authority, control…