IELTS Preparation. Band 8-9 Answers. Part 3 - Retirement and old age. Q5-6.

5. Why do some companies encourage early retirement?
6. Do you think the state should take responsibility for retirees who worked in private companies rather than government organisation?

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IELTS Preparation. Band 8-9 Answers. Part 3 - Retirement and old age. Q5-6.

What to do and how to act when visiting Thailand

English with Uncle Billy

Thailand

Teamwork and collaboration are two of the most important topics in Business English. Today let's listen to some vocabulary, grammar, phrases, idioms and ideas for speaking about this in English. As an international professional you are always collaborating with colleagues from around the world, working together to complete projects and deliver great work. Learning and understanding how we can work together better, build better teams, and have better relationships with our team mates is key to being the best professional possible.  If you're listening on Apple podcasts please don't forget to leave a review, it really helps me out! 

For non-native English speakers, and people who speak English as a 2nd language, (second language speakers), working in teams can be challenging. Listening to what your colleagues have to say, and also expressing your own ideas, making as few mistakes as possible, and creating great sentences can be a challenge that many people find really difficult.

In this podcast we're going to be listening to several tips for improving your teamwork and collaboration skills, we'll look at the vocabulary and business English that can really help us to use those tips, then at the end we'll have a short quiz to see how much of what we talk about you can remember.

Breakout Business English

Teamwork and how to work better with your colleagues!

Today's piece of vocabulary is to "get by". If you can get by with what you have, you can manage to live or do things in a satisfactory way. Not to have great success or do things particularly well, but simply to reach a level that you consider to be OK.

DAILY Business English VOCABULARY builder

This is going OK, not well, but OK.

Listen to these short sentences with different professions and places. 

Aprende árabe con Radia 

Professions in Arabic

買い物はネット派？実店舗派？

私は普段（ふだん）、実店舗（じってんぽ）に行って買い物をすることが多い。なんとなく、実物（じつぶつ）を見て手に取り、ものを確認（かくにん）してから買いたいのだが、まったくインターネットを利用しないというわけでもない。オンラインで買うものといえば、酒（さけ）・飲料（いんりょう）・米（こめ）・書籍（しょせき）などだ。私は車を持っていないため、重たいものはオンラインで買う。衣類（いるい）はオンラインで購入（こうにゅう）した経験（けいけん）がたくさんあるが、質（しつ）が悪かったり、サイズ違（ちが）いがあったり、失敗（しっぱい）が多かったので今は極力（きょくりょく）買わない。どちらもメリットがあるから、上手（じょうず）に買い物したいものだ。

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買い物はネット派？実店舗派？

Lectura de un texto de Galeano sobre Edgar Allan Poe. Voz, tono y sugerencia: cómo el español narra una caída sin explicar y dice más con lo que calla que con lo que nombra.

Un mar de palabras

Episodio 7: Poe

An explanation of when to use "some" or "any" to tell how much/many things there are.

The English Toolbox

Some vs. Any

Today we're doing some vocabulary for talking about finance and accounting. I hope you find it useful!