E-mail writing

Follow this quick advice when writing a business e-mail.

A great commercial: New Gillette Campaign

Comment orally in groups:

What do you know about Gillette? What range of products do they sell? Where are they based? Is Gillette popular in your country?

Now, enjoy the commercial:

After watching the commercial, answer these questions orally in class to test your memory:

• Where are the sport athletes at the beginning of the commercial?

• How many shavers do they have to choose from?

• What are Messi and Federer wearing?

• How many sports do they experience? What countries are they from?

• What does Federer do at the end of the commercial? Why?

Did you enjoy the commercial? Why?

 

How corrupt is your country? By Transparency International

Read the 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index, by Transparency International. Study the ranking and practice de name of continents, geographical regions, countries and nationalities in English.

 
After examining the information, debate about corruption perceptions in different parts of the world.
- How corrupt or uncorrupt is your country?
- Why does corruption exist?
- Is there anything we can do to diminish corruption?

Different uses of a favourite: verb GET

Do this quiz online by BBC to check on all the different meanings and uses of verb GET. Then, check your answers online.

Learning English - Quiznet by BBC

1: He's been quite ill recently, but he seems to be __________ now. getting better getting healthy getting recovered getting good 2: Which is the logical order of events? get engaged - get divorced - get married get engaged - get married - get divorced get married - get engaged - get divorced get divorced - get married - get engaged 3: Which of the following forms of transport do you NOT 'get on'? a train a plane a taxi a bicycle 4: You can imagine how he reacted when she told him she'd crashed the car, he ______________ and then started shouting! got really angry got really sad got really happy got really bored 5: Do you know what time your train gets ____? Let me know and I'll meet you at the station. on in at to 6: Which of the following is American English? 'Have you ever ________ lost on the New York subway - it's really confusing!' get getting got gotten