Let's get your read on! This week we are focused on summer reading. It is officially summer. It is time to relax, have fun, and what could be better than getting lost in a really good book? You can have fun and still improve your English at the same time. Here are 21 great books to start reading in English plus 4 useful tips for fun, effective reading in English. Join me for some summer reading! 

21 Books for Summer Reading in English

This week I have some really good news for you. We’re talking about good news. What could be better than learning how to give good news in English and how to respond to good news? Here is the best part, it is super simple.

Giving Good News in English

You should know that we use the same skills from presentations in things that we do every day, like telling stories or giving long answers to questions, like in job interviews, and many other things. Even if you don’t give presentations for your job or maybe for your studies in English, these lessons can still be really useful to you.

3 Quick Tips for a Smooth Presentation

Responding to Bad News in English

When we give bad news, we already feel stressed and nervous and upset when we do it in our own native language, but when you have to do it in English, then it becomes not only upsetting, but also scary. How do you do it correctly and in a good appropriate way?

Strategies for Giving Bad News

This week we are focused on eight idioms inspired by the summer. We’re going to think about using different idioms in English so that you can understand them naturally in any conversation, or if you hear them on a TV show or radio program.

Idioms Inspired by Summer

This week we are focused on how you can disagree with others politely in English and express your opinion. Whether you work in a company with English speakers or have colleagues around the world who speak English or friends, it is likely that at some point, you will disagree with an opinion, an idea, a perspective, or how someone wants to do something. In this lesson, you’re going to learn everything you need to know to do that politely in English.

How to Disagree Politely in English

Today we’re going to really focus on how you can talk about different future events more naturally in English. You probably learned to use the word “will” or what we often call the future simple when we talk about future events. For example, you would maybe say something like, “I will go to dinner with my friend after work tonight”, or “I will go to Portugal next week for a business conference”. The only problem is we don’t really talk like that in English.

The Simple Future Tense

Have you ever had a conversation in English, maybe on the telephone, when you’re making hotel reservations or talking to an international client in another country, or maybe you’re talking face-to-face with someone after a business meeting or a conference, and you don’t know how to end the conversation? 

The good news is, today is the last day where you will ever feel like that, because we’re going to focus on how you can end a conversation and say goodbye in many different situations, using common, everyday expressions that we use today in modern English.

17 Ways to Say Goodbye in English

Today, we’re going to focus on vocabulary, because one of the most difficult things is expressing yourself in your second language. You’ve probably experienced a time when you were trying to express yourself in English. Maybe you were talking with someone on the phone or face to face, or maybe you wanted to say something in English but the words that you needed were stuck. Today we’re going to focus on five phrasal verbs that you can start adding to your active English vocabulary this week so that you can speak more naturally, communicate more easily, and express yourself in English. 

5 Expressions with the Phrasal Verb Take

Do you use English on the telephone for work or travel? Communicate easily & successfully on the phone with these useful tips! Plus a video to help you be clear on the phone & avoid a common mistake.

Telephone English - Useful Tips And A Common Mistake

A woman without her man is nothing. Without punctuation, this sentence is difficult to understand. What do you think the meaning of this sentence is? Using commas will improve your writing and make it easier to understand your meaning.

Improve Your Writing with These 5 Rules

This lesson shows you how to use podcasts to improve your listening skills and understand native speakers more easily! PLUS you'l get my 11 favorite podcasts.

Improve Your English Listening with Podcasts

Today we're going to discover the power of focusing on one thing for 30 days. In today’s lesson, we’re going to find out what’s possible when you start a 30 day English Challenge!

Develop a Successful English Routine

Job interviews usually give you the opportunity to ask questions to. What do you ask and how do you sound smart in English? Find out here!

Job Interview In English - 5 Smart Questions

Learn how to start a great conversation with anyone, no matter where you are, in English!

10 Questions To Start A Conversation With Anyone

Is Autumn your favorite season? Learn 7 new expressions inspired by this beautiful time of year.

7 English Idioms with Autumn Vocabulary

Learn how to talk about your favorite recipes and the food from your country.

Learn To Talk About Food And Cooking In English

Learn how to describe yourself in English.

How to Describe Your Personality in English

Learn how native English speakers use the word COULD in real English

Speak Confident English

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