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TEN THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DOING BUSINESS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

One thing you learn in cross-cultural training and facilitation is to be cautious about the statements you make about the Middle East.  After all, you are dealing with business partners, colleagues and clients from over twelve different countries, all with different peoples, traditions and customs. You are also dealing with individuals from different regions in [...]

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Practising English Vowels

Here are some ideas for practising English vowels. In order to teach your student a thing or two about pronunciation, you could use the the following tables:

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Veronique’s visit

I had already realised that Veronique’s English was very strong just through talking to her but I though we’d do the Nelson test and the advanced listening to see if there were any easily identifiable areas of weakness – and there weren’t! We agreed therefore that we should focus on expansion of vocabulary into less [...]

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Fun in the Rain – 2

Lena is a trainee English teacher so is an advanced student.   I found it was not necessary to do a lot of grammar.   We decided the more important topics were to improve her intonation and pronunciation and to give her more confidence in talking. We did a lot of talking!   We read newspapers and had [...]

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