... something The only access to the village is by boat If youarein touch with someone, you see them or are involved with them in some other way regularly Areyou still in touch with your school friends? ... family of linear induction motor-driven trains as the Scarborough RT line in Toronto, the Putra LRT in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the Detroit People Mover in Detroit, and the JFK AirTrain in New York ... IELTS Teaching grammar of written and spoken English Teaching ESP, including English for Information Technology, International Finance and Banking, Tourism and Hotel Industry Teaching Business English...
... food provides There are about fifty calories in an apple Obsessed, obsessive adjective unable to stop thinking about something; too interested in or very worried about something The government ... esp in order to relax them or to reduce stiffness or pain in their joints or muscles I've got a dreadful ache in my neck Would you mind massaging it for me? She gave me a wonderfully relaxing ... them?" said Chris, shrugging [I] Dominating adjective often disapproving She has very strong opinions and tends to be quite dominating (= having or trying to have control over people, situations,...
... giving way, greeting, leave-taking, mocking, naming, offering, praising, promising, proposing marriage, protesting, recommending, thanking In saying: ―I’m grateful toyou for all you have done for ... Illocutionary are acts defined by social conventions, acts such as accosting, accusing, admitting, apologizing, challenging, complaining, condoling, congratulating, declining, giving permission, giving ... once, distinguished by different aspects of the speaker‘s intention: there is the act of saying something, what one does in saying it, such as requesting or promising, and how one is trying to affect...
... error in filling your order—the correct posters are being shipped today Thank you for bringing to our attention the missing steel pole in the tetherball set you ordered from us HOW TOSAY IT® ... about protocol, where to park your car, what to wear, howto respond to the invitation General guidelines are: send your reply within a day of receiving the invitation; write the reply yourself ... that glad to be able to vote yes it was so thoughtful of youto happy to let you know it will be a pleasure to pleased to have been invited thank you for asking me to thank you for nominating me...
... leads salespeople to act pushy (for example, pressing a customer to "act now" in order to get a low price) or to be too accommodating (appealing to a customer’s interest in getting his or her way) ... and coaching abilities–and you can’t focus on these things if youare spending too much time out in the field Leave the selling to the stars–your coaching can carry them to new heights Melinda Ligos, ... managers, and/or classroom training, distance- or e-learning, and other kinds of training q MENTORING In mentoring, salespeople choose a mentor (a high-performer within the organization who can...
... break up 15 To be spinning your wheels To be putting forth an effort that is having no useful effect To be working in vain 16 To have a good mind to something To be inclined to something To have ... meaning to be accustomed to or familiar with something 16 To grow out of something To become too old for something, to stop having an interest in something that used to be interesting 17 To be ... happy 10 To move on To begin something else, to stop focusing on one person or thing and to start to think about someone or something else 11 To let yourself go To allow yourself to be in bad physical...
... for I'd like to apologise for the way I spoke toyou earlier VOCABULARY AROUND SAYING SORRY to apologise to sb for doing sth tosay sorry, to ask for forgiveness, to express regret to hurt someone's ... FOR SAYING SORRY To emphasise howyou feel I'm really sorry Examples I'm really sorry, Peter, I didn't mean to lose your book I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I forgot your birthday, Oliver! Tosay ... Tosay why you' re sorry Examples Sorry about Sorry about the mess I'll clear up later Sorry for Sorry for taking your DVD Tosay sorry without using the words 'I'm sorry'! I'd like to apologise...
... setting everything in dollars So you have avoided the two main risks and you have given the investors a risk exposure they are interested inYou need to have those unique selling points that investors ... transparency Although the investors’ standards have risen, it is quite rare to get effective feedback from many of the investors, mainly because of how they are structured Investors are looking ... are buying are all in the strategy and not in the infrastructure them to build the appropriate infrastructure and meet an investor’s due diligence requirements HFM: What are investors looking for...
... evening, Mrs Smith! Alright, mate! Asking someone Howare you? how they are Asking Howare you? Howyou doing? someone how It's lovely to see you again! Howyou going? they areHow' s it going? ... going to leave you Anyway, we're going to later! See you soon! See you tomorrow! tonight! at 8! at work! at the party! Nice to see Nice toyou It's been lovely see youto catch up It was great to ... hasn't it? You alright? Saying youare Good, thanks! well Fine, thanks! Not bad, not bad! Alright, thanks! I'm OK! Returning the And you? question when How about you? someone has What about you? asked...
... have tosay They won’t hear your message if they are sleeping, and they won’t hear your message if they are talking more than youare So don’t lose control of your seminar! The key to maintaining ... a talk forces youto get to the point If you want your audience to listen to you, you ve got to make your idea clear, concise, and organized—and the experience that you gain by doing this is extremely ... did your thoughts will be shaped too much by their views youare much more likely to be original if you plunge right in and try to develop your own insights Third, your ideas need time to incubate,...
... skills: Listening (to the song),Reading (following the lyrics to determine the words),Writing (filling in the blanks)and Speaking (singing the song) Songs can help pupils for practicing difficult ... communication purpose relating to the subject units Listening is listening comprehension training relevant to the topic in order to reinforce the structure, learned vocabulary and initially to help students ... help maintain learners‟ autonomy Planning stage According to Marianne Celce-Murcia, Donna M Brinton and Janet M Goodwin (in teaching pronunciation 1996), It is clear that there is far more linguistic...
... Justification In consulting, you always pick and choose your words carefully, because you need to be able to back up anything yousay If yousay a client should take X action, you d better be able to explain ... clarifying questions.” The interviewer will know you intend to state a hypothesis and won’t think you forgot But if you forget, the interviewer can remind you of your original intention, and this incurs ... analysis you want You end up having to make difficult choices inhowyou manage your time In this context, many consultants use the phrase boiling the ocean to describe how not to prioritize your...
... performing one will be included in the QA system 3.5 Other tools we used In addition to the tools and resources previously enumerated, we had to develop some basic tools which one expects to find in ... extracted by the search engine, taking into consideration several factors First, the answer has to contain an entity of the type specified in the question Other factors which are considered when a ... shown that it is possible to use machine learning approaches to design named entity recognisers for languages other than English However, these approaches need annotated corpora to learn how to...
... much say as possible inhow and when it happens A boss delivering bad news to a subordinate is, by definition, at a later point in the emotional cycle of reacting to it ■ ■ ■ ■ During overwhelming ... again, and aren’t a bit bored with yourself, it may be that you aren’t repeating yourself enough or your messages are overly complex Affording Control People don’t embark on careers to feel powerless ... first half of the dyindividuals who will remain in your network for years to come are cut, budgets are pared, projects are namic – that bosses tend to be oblivious back-burnered to their followers’...