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Lesson Seven--- Offering help (one) Part A Drill One (You'll hear the names of ten American states and their abbreviations spelled out for you. Listen carefully and write them down quickly. Example: Taxas T-a-x-a-s T.X.) 1.Alaska A-l-a-s-k-a A.K. 2.C
ESL Podcast 316 Business Emails and Abbreviations GLOSSARY re: regarding; related to; on the subject of* Did you read Ferns memo re: the change in the vacation policy? headway progress; advancement; the process of moving a task or projectforward* Eve
Narrator: D. Use abbreviations to quickly note down the distances and rail travel times of the followingcities in the north of England: i. Shrewsbury (1 hour from Manchester) vi. Lincoln (1 3/4 hours from London) ii. Chester (17 miles south of Liverp
Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is the difference between abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms. Unfortunately, you can't call any abbreviation made up of a phrase's first letters an acronym. Sometimes they are initialisms. Acronyms But let's bac
Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is the difference between abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms. It's kind of an extension of the last episode, because I want to clarify the difference between abbreviations and acronyms. Any shortened form of a w
Narrator: Radio Item 8: They said it would be a horror budget, and they were right: cigarettes, wine and spirits, petrol, and luxury cars8 - all up on July 1 - and a reversal of pre-budget policy in which we were promised that there would be no incre
Narrator: D. Use abbreviations to quickly note down the rail distances and directions from London of the following places: i. Manchester (184 miles north-west) vi. Liverpool (193 miles north-west) ii. Cardiff (155 miles east) vii. Penzance (280 miles
图片1 Grammar Girl here. This episode is a new and improved version of i.e. versus e.g. Misusing these two abbreviations is one of the top five mistakes I used to see when editing technical documents. There's so much confusion that in some of the d
Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is the difference between abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms. It's kind of an extension of the last episode, because I want to clarify the difference between abbreviations and acronyms. Any shortened form of a w
Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is text messaging. Karel (pronounced Carl) from Toronto, Canada, asked if I think text messaging is affecting how people write in formal situations. Well, I know it is for some people because Mia tells me so in this n
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Finally today, news you can use if, say, you're going out to dinner with some particularly erudite friends and you want to impress them, especially if they are people who get annoyed when kids use terms like OMG. You might be sur
Because chemists for so long worked in isolation, conventions were slow to emerge. Until well into the second half of the century, the formula H2O2 might mean water to one chemist but hydrogen peroxide to another. C2H4 could signify ethylene or marsh
Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is units of measurethose words and symbols that come after numbers. This first point might seem self-evident: you put a space between the number and the unit of measure. Even though it seems obvious, I'm telling you b
Grammar Girl here. This episode is a new and improved version of i.e. versus e.g. Misusing these two abbreviations is one of the top five mistakes I used to see when editing technical documents. There's so much confusion that in some of the drafts I
Unit 5. Net Changes Life. Part 1. Warming up. A. Keywords. email message, addresses, Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ (the second), Jimmy Carter, email accounts, hoax. Vocabulary. crash, coordinate, account, hoax, Maine. You are going to hear some important dates
Do you know the word impact? Impact means the action of hitting something with a lot of force. So, if two cars hit each other, we can talk about the impact of the collision. But generally we use impact in a figurative way we use it to mean a big effe
1. Use a capital letter for the personal pronoun 'I': What can I say? 2. Use a capital letter to begin a sentence or to begin speech: The man arrived. He sat down. Suddenly Mary asked, Do you love me? 3. Use capital letters for many abbreviations and
网络的流行使语言发生了改变,网友发明的很多新词、缩略词造就了新式英语Weblish。 Weblish is a form of English that is used on the web (use of abbreviations, acronyms, small letters, absence of punctuation and hyphens e
Employers assume that those they hire know how to perform certain tasks. For example your boss will expect you to know how to write a professional email and answer the phone properly. Those tasks are pretty simple, but others are a bit more complicat