Business Qualities – Adjectives
Whether it’s an appraisal, a job interview, disciplinary action, or simply discussing a project with colleagues, business success depends on your ability to talk about employee qualities and performance with…
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Idioms of Comparison – Similes
Mastering Idioms of Comparison: An Interactive Challenge Various grammatical constructions are used in English to compare things. The as… as structure is specifically used to compare things with similar or…
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Make & Do
Executive Summary: Make vs. Do MAKE: Creative & Results Focus on the output or the final product. Origin/Material: Made by [Company], Made in [Country], Made of [Material]. Decision-making: Make a…
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Phrasal Verbs – MONEY
“In this world you’ve got to turn up, log on and grind out.” Peep Show (see video!) A phrasal verb is an idiomatic phrase made up of a verb and…
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Time
“Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing.”― Miles Davis Language related to time, including phrases and idioms like “time is of the essence,” “a race against time,” and…
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News from the Japanese Banking System – Metaphor
Metaphor Business English is jam-packed (full) with metaphor – a word or phrase used to describe one thing as if it were another – for example, time is money is…
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Spam
Where does the term spam come from?Spam is the trademark of a canned luncheon meat product; one of my not so pleasant memories of school dinners is spam fritters (sliced,…
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The Hamburger Model
How should I structure my e-mails? To illustrate how e-mails are structured, I would like to draw an analogy between hamburgers and e-mails. I know it sounds weird, but bear…
