Inglés y marketing
En muchas actividades de nuestra vida el inglés es importante para desarrollarnos como personas y también como profesionales. En muchos ámbitos esta lengua gana terreno e importancia y pasa a ser uno de los puntos fuertes que nos va a permitir abrirnos puertas en este...
Combining Nouns: Possessive S and Other Weirdness
In my ongoing mission to reduce PowerPoint text to a minimum, this blog looks at how English uses phrases like “Mary’s phone” to show that one noun “owns” another without the need for prepositions. These short cuts for combining nouns can be confusing for non-native...
Nearly Real
This blog was going to be about slides and bullet points, and I’ll attack that topic next, but when I read Montse’s article about adapting to teleworking, I couldn’t resist the chance to add my perspective as a teacher. Converting our classes to a remote format saved...
Inversions for Emphasis – Twist and Shout
When normal formal just isn’t enough to communicate your anger by email, you can really turn the screw by twisting the order of your sentences… In my last blog, https://secondlanguage.net/2021/06/01/cold-hard-grammar/ I set out my main formal English tools for email...