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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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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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…
