English Bite — The Art of Disagreeing Politely in English
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Tag: B2
English Bite — Formal vs Informal: Reading the Room in English
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English Bite — Reading Strategies: How I Read Faster in English
You need to find a phone number quickly in a long document. Which strategy do you use?
Connected Speech — Why Native Speakers Are Hard to Understand
Natural English is not four separate words — it is one flowing sound
Reported Speech — Saying What Someone Said (B2)
Pass on what someone said — accurately, naturally, and without quoting word-for-word
Idioms with COME — The Journey Word (B2)
From Sourov's world: When I first came across English idioms in Australia, they didn't come naturally at all. I remember sitting in the break room at Star Casino and my colleagues speaking — I could…
Writing Formal Emails
From "Bye" to professional — the structure that works every time
Past Perfect — Telling Stories in the Right Order (B2)
Tell stories about two events in the past — and show which one happened first
Fixed Expressions and Idioms of Feeling (B2)
From Sourov's world: When I moved from Sydney to Saint-Pierre in La Réunion to be with my wife Vanessa, I had to relearn how people express feelings in French. The French say "avoir le cafard"…
Word Families — Learn One Word, Get Four (B2)
Word families share the same root. We change the form using suffixes (endings) and prefixes (beginnings).