Professional English · Lesson 04 — Telephone English — Phrases That Never Fail
Phone calls in English feel harder because there are no visual clues. These phrases cover every situation from opening to closing. Examples ‘Could you speak more…
ReadPhone calls in English feel harder because there are no visual clues. These phrases cover every situation from opening to closing. Examples ‘Could you speak more…
ReadData on a slide means nothing without a sentence to interpret it. Three phrases work in any presentation. Examples ‘The figures show that…’ ‘This represents a…
ReadYour classroom is full of English words: book, pen, pencil, desk, chair, board, door, window. Examples This is a book. That is a pen. The door…
ReadMonday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Seven days — and Friday is everyone’s favourite. Examples Monday–Friday: school or work days Saturday and Sunday: the weekend!…
ReadSome foods are delicious (yummy!), some not so much. You can say what you like in English very simply. Examples I like apples. I like pizza.…
ReadEnglish animal words are fun. Some you say loud — LION! Some are soft — mouse. Examples Farm: cow, pig, horse, chicken Wild: lion, elephant, monkey,…
ReadHello opens every conversation. Goodbye closes it. Two words, unlimited use. Examples Hello! → I see you and I’m glad. Goodbye! → I’ll see you again.…
ReadIdea — Thirty days, thirty tools. Choose three you haven’t used yet: a prediction task, a transcript comparison, or an extensive reading experiment outside class. Example…
ReadIdea — A solid receptive skills lesson: pre-task (schema activation) → gist task → detail or inferencing task → post-task (productive follow-up). Every stage has a…
ReadIdea — Authentic texts can be simplified without losing authenticity. Replace low-frequency vocabulary; keep the voice and argument. Don’t rewrite it as a coursebook text. Example…
ReadMost of this site is reading. These two are writing — the only way to find out what your English actually does, and what your inner weather is actually like. Take one now, or skip and find them in the menu at any time.
A twenty-question encounter with how you actually think in English.
This is not a multiple-choice test. There are no gap-fills and no word banks. Those instruments measure recognition. This one measures production — the unruly, idiosyncratic act of putting thought into English under gentle pressure.
You will be asked about your dreams, your reading, your silences, your weather. Some prompts feel like journal entries. Some feel like riddles. Answer them as yourself — only as yourself.
Thirteen sideways questions about the architecture of your own experience.
“How are you?” produces “fine.” “What is wrong?” produces defence. So this asks neither. It asks about texture, temperature, containers, landscapes at 3 AM — sideways entry points that let you describe an inner state without having to expose a biography.
There is no timer and no right answer. The only thing measured is granularity: how finely you can name what is happening inside you. That skill is learnable, and it travels with you.