🫲 Show & tell

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Afternoon friends!

Today, we’ve got something to show you and something to tell you about.

Let’s dive into it.

We have been working hard to bring you a webpage full of resources. A page full of things to help you make progress with your English outside of class.

So click here and check it out:

It’s a work in progress and we are building it step by step. But we wanted to show and share it with you now. There will be much more to come.

Please write to us and let us know what you think 🤗

English resources for everyone

Now to tell you something:

This Easter we will be having 4-day intensive English courses. Short courses that are designed specifically for each individual student.

So if you’ve got time this Easter click here to find out more:

This week’s 3 tips:

SOMETHING TO AVOID 🫣

🤦🏻‍♀️ “There are a”

Impossible. “There are” is for plurals and “a” is for singulars. So don’t say “a” when speaking about plurals.

There are folders on the floor

✅ “There is a”

When we are referring to a singular countable noun we say “there is a”.

There is a mouse in the kitchen!

Why is there a shoe in the bathroom?

SOMETHING TO SOUND CONFIDENT 🧐

👔 Business jargon explained

“Break even point”

The point at which the expenses of a business are equal to its revenue. So, the point at which the business becomes profitable. It can also be used as a verb, “to break even”.

We want to reduce costs to lower our break even point

We expect to break even next year