Sunday, February 17, 2013
Signposting and survival tactics
Here you can find a four-page document with exercises on signposting and some survival tactics, which could come in handy during a negotiation. (Source: Presenting in English by Mark Powell)
BBC on negotiations and meetings
Here
you can have access to the BBC website on negotiations, where they have
useful expressions and/or phrases contextualized in short dialogues
available as audio streams with transcripts.
Here you can have access to the BBC website, where they provide some examples for interruptions contextualized in a short dialogue available as an audio stream with a transcript.
Here you can have access to the BBC website, where they provide some examples for agreements and disagreements contextualized in a short dialogue available as an audio stream with a transcript.
Here you can have access to the BBC website, where they provide some examples for interruptions contextualized in a short dialogue available as an audio stream with a transcript.
Here you can have access to the BBC website, where they provide some examples for agreements and disagreements contextualized in a short dialogue available as an audio stream with a transcript.
Opinions, agreeing and disagreeing
Here you can find some phrases which can be used to express your opinions, agreements and disagreements along with some exercises.
American vs. British English
Here you can find a list of the main differences between American and British English. (Source: English Grammar in Use: Intermediate by Raymond Murphy)
Make, do, get and have
Here you can find some information and exercises on the use of the verbs 'make', 'do', 'get' and 'have'.
Figures, abbreviations, symbols and currencies
Here
you can find some information on writing figures, abbreviations and
symbols from the "Interinstitutional Style Guide". You can also find
more information on the same topic on pages 24-25 of the English Style Guide used at the Commission.
Here you can find information on writing monetary units from the Guide.
Here you can find information on writing monetary units from the Guide.
Latin terms, phrases, abbreviations and acronyms
You can find a list of Latin terms, phrases abbreviations and acronyms that can be used in English here.
PS: The abbreviation for the Latin phrase et alii is 'et al.' with a dot at the end. Here is a general rule for the use of the dot in abbreviations: If the last letter of the word being abbreviated is not the same as the last letter of the abbreviation, you need the dot. What are the abbreviations for 'professor', 'doctor', 'mister' and 'abbreviation'?
PS: The abbreviation for the Latin phrase et alii is 'et al.' with a dot at the end. Here is a general rule for the use of the dot in abbreviations: If the last letter of the word being abbreviated is not the same as the last letter of the abbreviation, you need the dot. What are the abbreviations for 'professor', 'doctor', 'mister' and 'abbreviation'?
Mandatory, obligatory and compulsory
These words can indeed be used as synonyms in most contexts. I also like the first response in the forum at the following link:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080507075259AAR2USG
Here is a link for another forum which can be useful, as well:
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/2902/mandatory-obligatory-compulsory
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080507075259AAR2USG
Here is a link for another forum which can be useful, as well:
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/2902/mandatory-obligatory-compulsory
Journalistic titles
Here
you can find a brief explanation on journalistic titles used in, e.g.,
newspaper headlines. We, however, should not use this style for our
titles in administrative writing. How would you change the headlines
provided as examples in the hot-linked document into administrative
style titles?
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