Evan, an excellent piece of information, thanks for sharing. Kind Regards Corinne Wilhelm BA(Hons)DipM Corporate Learning Consultant www.clever2gether.com YOUR...
Very interesting article. Can someone tell me what the initialism SME stands for? It was never stated in the beginning of the study, but used throughout. ...
Hi all, I have just been notified of a meeting with colleagues on Friday to discuss course books to prepare students for BEC. Does anybody have any experience...
Dear Svenja, I'm teaching a BEC higher course at the moment, although I must say this is the first BEC course I've taught, so I'm be no means an expert. We use...
Kehr
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Jul 5, 2007 11:11 am
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Hallo, Have you looked at Paul Emmerson's new Business English Handbook published by Macmillan? Regards, Russ Kent _____ From: besig@yahoogroups.com...
Dear Svenja I use Business Benchmark(for BEC Vantage)-written by Guy Brroke Hart and published by CUP for BEC Vantage. it is excellent and gievs detailed notes...
Lalitha Murthy
lalitha.murthy@...
Jul 5, 2007 3:48 pm
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Hi Svenja, I have taught BEC courses for many years now. I like the "Pass Cambridge BEC Preliminary/Vantage/Higher" books from Summertown Publishing the best....
Hello I am using Intelligent Business at all three levels for BEC. You'll hardly have to supplement-there is so much great material plus the website. My ...
Dear everybody, Just wanted to pass on information on below seminar. Best regards, Cornelia Kreis-Meyer ELTAS chair Introduction to Teaching English for Legal...
You may have already discovered this European Union Jargon glossary, but I find it quite useful. http://international.lga.gov.uk/european_work/glossary.html ...
Dear All, English _like_ it should be spoken As the 'unappointed' resident pedant, I think you should all definitely read this piece in the Spectator magazine...
Dear members, would any of you have ever seen the word or abbreviation "ecth". i have this in a text and haven´t found it anywhere. Thanks. Vera Lúcia F....
vera lucia meres
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Jul 30, 2007 12:26 pm
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Dear Vera Lucia Could you just give me an idea about the context you found the abbreviation 'ecth' Tharindu vera lucia meres <vlmeres@...> wrote: Dear...
Thanks Nicholas, I am glad some people care about the quality of English! Pam Seidel ... From: "Nicholas" <infolio@...> To: <besig@yahoogroups.com> Sent:...
Pamela Seidel
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Jul 30, 2007 5:40 pm
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To UK Members, hoping you can help I recently ordered?a number of "Oxford" monolingual and bilingual (various languages) picture dictionaries from Waterstones...
Dear Vera I'm sure they mean etc, meaning and so on and so on...it of course could be someone who lisps, or then again a Maltese who puts 'ths" where they ...
jscib@...
Jul 31, 2007 8:08 am
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How about the Oxford Duden? Rhona ... From: helenwest1@... To: besig@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 8:57 PM Subject: [besig] British English...
Hi Helen, sorry to hear about your disappointment with the picture dictionaries that you bought, that is so frustrating isn't it? _*What kind of pictures are...
HI all Does anyone know whats wrong with saying "Can you tell me why didn’t you phone me?" I can't see anything wrong with that if this is wrong what...
Hi Tharinda, The correct grammar would be "Can you tell me why YOU DIDN'T phone me?" The clause after "why" is a subject-verb statement, not a verb-subject ...
Elizabeth C. Scheyder
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Aug 2, 2007 9:50 pm
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Dear Dhanushka I think that the correct word order of that question is "Can you tell me why you didn't phone me?" as there is no inversion in this type of wh-...
Well what you should say is " Can you tell me why you didn't phone?" I suppose it counts as an indirect question. The question mark for a direct question...
Pamela Seidel
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Aug 2, 2007 10:47 pm
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Hello, I like the idea of creating them yourself. Therefore I’d like to second Corinne’s suggestion with my link collection where you can find images and ...
Dear Tharindu, Although this is becoming more and more frequent in spoken English, the sentence: Can you tell me why didn’t you phone me? is an embedded...
I agree with Elizabeth. I'd prefer to say something like - you don't normally hear (Don't normally hear where?!!!): "Can you tell me why didn't you phone me?",...
Hi, As lots of folks have said, grammatically speaking, the word order changes after 'Can you tell me...?" So Why didn't you phone me? -> Can you tell me why...
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