Archive for the ‘Writing’ Category
Various Types of Business Letters
Samedi, janvier 21st, 2012There are a number of types of business letters in English.
Accomplished speakers of English also need to be able to write the following types of business letters to be successful in business.
Begin with a clear understanding of business letter writing basics.
Once you’ve understood basic layout styles, standard phrases, salutation and endings, continue to improve your business letter writing skills by learning to write the following types of business letters.
Learn English on Twitter!
Vendredi, novembre 18th, 2011
What’s Twitter you might ask?
The excellent English Learning website English as a 2nd Language has a great explanation:
“Twitter is a tool that you can use to send messages of up to 140 characters to a group of followers while you also follow others.
To understand, here is a video called Twitter in Plain English which provides a good introduction: This is a great tool that works with any device that you use to connect to the Internet. The messages are short, and easy to read.
It’s the perfect platform to practice English structure, idioms and phrases!”
Interested?
Start here!
This short YouTube video, Twitter in Plain English, will give you an overview of the service!
Then, you can follow me @PierreGESLiN
See you there!
Vous vivez en Wallonie? Essayez Wallangues.be!
Dimanche, novembre 13th, 2011
Wallangues est une initiative de la Wallonie permettant à tous ses résidents de se former en néerlandais, anglais, français et allemand gratuitement et simplement.
Grâce à Wallangues, vous aurez la possibilité d’apprendre une ou plusieurs langues ou d’en approfondir la connaissance, où vous voulez, quand vous voulez, depuis n’importe quel ordinateur connecté à Internet. Wallangues s’adresse à tous les niveaux : du débutant complet aux niveaux avancés.
Poursuivez votre visite de Wallangues en consultant les pages suivantes si vous souhaitez :
- En savoir plus sur le projet Wallangues ?
- Vous inscrire directement ?
- Assister à une présentation de Wallangues près de chez vous.
- de l’aide ?
Excellente visite sur Wallangues et bon apprentissage des langues grâce à la Wallonie !
L’équipe Wallangues.
Try it out and let us know what you feel about this excellent initiative!
Catch us on Facebook!
Vendredi, janvier 21st, 2011You can now catch the ENGLiSH CiRCLE on our Facebok page at www.facebook.com/english.circle !
You’ll find there a range of web links that might just help you to improve your English.
Come and join the community! Kind regards, Pierre
AGENDA WEB: Hundreds of free English exercises
Vendredi, septembre 17th, 2010On AGENDA WEB
you will find hundreds of free exercises to learn English online: grammar, verbs, vocabulary, listening, reading, songs and videos…
List of English Language Tests & Games
Vendredi, juillet 13th, 2007| List of English Language Tests & Games |
| Most of the tests and games on this list are free for you to use. Only those with a  are for members only.Members also have access to a wide range of other tests, exercises and English language learning services. |
A Guide To Writing in English
Vendredi, juillet 13th, 2007Easily confused words
Word that are often confused when writing English. Includes the word pair, definition and example. Sound files available (Premium content)
A Quick guide to English Punctuation
Vendredi, juillet 13th, 2007
Punctuation is used to create sense, clarity and stress in sentences.
You use punctuation marks to structure and organise your writing.
The most common of these are:
- . the period (or full stop in British English)
- , the comma,
- ! the exclamation mark
- ? the question mark
- : the colon
- ; and semi-colon
- “ the quote
- ‘ the apostrophe
- - the hyphen and dash
- ( parentheses and brackets.
Capital letters are also used to help us organise meaning and to structure the sense of our writing.
Check here for more info: http://www.english4today.com/englishgrammar/punctuation/index.cfm
English dictations
Lundi, février 5th, 2007Graded English dictations
This site offers Graded English dictations with fast, studio-quality sound free online.
Excellent for listening comprehension and written expression.Choose your English dictation. You’ll hear it read four times :
Excellent for listening comprehension and written expression.Choose your English dictation. You’ll hear it read four times :
* first, the whole passage is read at normal speed for you to listen for gist;
* second, each phrase is read slowly twice, with punctuation, as you write;
* then the whole passage is read again for you to check your work;
* finally, the written text is shown - count your mistakes.
