Describing Trends and Data | Business English B1
Talking about data is a core professional skill. Verbs for movement ↑ rise, increase, grow, climb, improve ↓ fall, drop, decrease, decline, reduce → remain stable,…
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Politely Disagreeing in Meetings | Business English B1
In English, disagreeing often requires softening language. Direct disagreement can sound rude even when it is not intended. These phrases let you push back professionally. Useful…
ReadProfessional Email Greetings and Sign-offs | Business English B1
The right greeting makes a first impression. Formal (you don’t know the person well) “Dear Mr Smith,” / “Dear Ms Johnson,” “Dear Sir or Madam,” (when…
ReadELT365 · D154 — Gist listening — one question, whole text
Idea — A gist task asks one global question requiring a single listen. Its job is to orient the learner to the whole text, not chase…
ReadELT365 · Day 211 — Designing a Productive-Skills Lesson from Scratch
Idea — A productive-skills lesson follows: lead-in → model and analyse → prepare → task → content feedback → language feedback. Skip language focus and learners…
ReadELT365 · Day 204 — Email Writing: The Professional Register in Practice
Idea — Professional emails follow a predictable structure: greeting → purpose → body → request or next step → close. Teaching the moves explicitly saves learners…
ReadELT365 · Day 201 — Genre Awareness: What the Text Type Demands
Idea — Different genres carry different expectations for structure, register, and purpose. Teaching learners to read genre before writing it reduces the “wrong shape” problem in…
ReadELT365 · Day 195 — Guided Writing: Models, Not Molds
Idea — A model text shows learners what the target genre looks like — its structure, register, and key phrases. Guided writing uses the model as…
ReadELT365 · Day 173 — True / False / Not Given: The Exact Distinction
Idea — “True” = confirmed by the text. “False” = contradicted by the text. “Not given” = neither confirmed nor contradicted. Conflating false and not given…
ReadELT365 · Day 171 — Jigsaw Listening: Information-Gap in Reception
Idea — In jigsaw listening, different groups hear different parts of a text, then pool information. The information gap is real — no group can answer…
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