Meetings can be intimidating for a lot of people, even to native speakers! Especially if you’re meeting with people who you don’t know very well, if at all. Today we’re going to look at a few pieces of vocabulary that you might hear in meetings and that you might be able to use yourself. At the end we also have our 'big discussion question'. You can find the vocabulary from this podcast in the vocabulary sets on my profile. I hope you enjoy today's podcast and I look forward to meeting you on a call very soon!

So when I was deciding which topic to focus on for our second episode I really only needed to look at what the people I work with are actually asking for. One of the most common topics that I discuss with people is presentations. Presentations can be great opportunities to use those English skills that you work so hard on, but they also have their own stresses and challenges. Today we’re going to look at some vocabulary that you might hear when watching a presentation and some that you might want to use when giving your own. At the end we also have our 'big discussion question' to help you with your speaking practice. You can find the vocabulary from this podcast in the vocabulary sets on my profile. I hope you enjoy today's podcast and I look forward to meeting you on a call very soon!

STOP Pronouncing Words Like This: I’ll go over some words but before that here is a practical thing you can do: Record your own pronunciation to your phone and then listen to my version and compare the two. I found this to be of use when I got my students right in the class to record their voices and then had them listen – wow – it’s like and ‘aha moment’ for them, a moment of realization, a moment of transformation. So, here I am – helping you to transform from A to B. Let’s be that Speaker that we dream to B. Definitely Itinerary Subtle Double Edged Sword GIF So, how did you do it? :) Was it of help? Send me a message with your ‘transformation’. To Your Success!

20 of the most commonly mispronounced words in the English language: You pronounce, then I, GO :) 1 Pronunciation 2 Cupboard 3 Epitome 4 Salmon/almond 5 Library/February 6 Definitely 7 Ask 8 Wednesday 9 Stomach 10 Clothes 11 Especially/escape/espresso 12 Probably 13 Yolk 14 Desert/ dessert 15 Women 16 Southern 17 Iron 18 Specific 19 Sixth 20 Crowd/cloud Let me know how many you got write and wrong :) Stay tunes for more useful podcasts to help you grow as an English learner and the USER! To Your Success!!!

#7 優（やさ）しさに包（つつ）まれた日（ひ） //N3 Level 今週、私が体験したことを話しています。 たくさん”優しさ”をもらいました。 本当に感謝しています。 ＊今週：こんしゅう ＊私：わたし ＊体験：たいけん ＊話：はな ＊優＊やさ ＊本当：ほんとう ＊感謝：かんしゃ ◇words◇ 優（やさ）しさ：tenderness, kindness （優しさに）包（つつ）まれる：filled with ( tenderness ) 体験（たいけん）：personal experience 首輪（くびわ）： (dog) collar 緩（ゆる）い：loose 警察官（けいさつかん）：police officer 怪我（けが）：hurt ☆Script for this episode If you would like a script of this audio, please message me!

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Tea and the Industrial Revolution A Cambridge professor says that a change in drinking habits was the reason for the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Anjana Abuja reports A Alan Macfarlane, professor of anthropological science at King’s College, Cambridge has, like other historians, spent decades wrestling with the enigma of the Industrial Revolution. Why did this particular Big Bang – the world-changing birth of industry-happen in Britain? And why did it strike at the end of the 18th century? B Macfarlane compares the puzzle to a combination lock. ‘There are about 20 different factors and all of them need to be present before the revolution can happen,’ he says. For industry to take off, there needs to be the technology and power to drive factories, large urban populations to provide cheap labour, easy transport to move goods around, an affluent middle-class willing to buy mass-produced objects, a market-driven economy and a political system that allows this to happen. While this was the case for England, other nations, such as Japan, the Netherlands and France also met some of these criteria but were not industrialising. All these factors must have been necessary. But not sufficient to cause the revolution, says Macfarlane. ‘After all, Holland had everything except coal while China also had many of these factors. Most historians are convinced there are one or two missing factors that you need to open the lock.’ C and D will be posted below.

It's not easy to learn a language when you don't feel like you connect with it. Over the next few episodes I will talk about creating a meaningful language plan. The most beautiful part of language is the community you connect with.