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abbreviations
Intermediate
Jay

British Abbreviations. Learn about English short forms

There are abbreviations in British English that Americans don’t use – words like brolly and chippie. I wonder if you know them? This video is about some differences in British and American abbreviations and you’ll learn some common British short forms. We made this video after the collaboration we did with other ESL YouTubers for the World Story-Telling Day Project. Click here to see the story we made for World Story-Telling Day Click here to learn

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say and tell, tell and say
Intermediate
Jay

Say and Tell – Learn their different meanings and uses

Say and tell – English learners often make mistakes with these verbs. There are situations where we can use either, but there are also situations where only one is correct. Another tricky thing is the grammar patterns tell and say follow. Tell is followed by and object but say isn’t, so we say something but we tell someone something. And finally there are some common expressions with tell where we don’t follow the normal rules.

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try to do and try doing
Advanced
Jay

Try to do and Try doing (gerunds and infinitives)

‘Try’ is a special verb in English because we can follow it with either a gerund (ing form) or infinitive. However the meaning changes. Watch the video and learn how ‘try to do’ is different from ‘try doing’. Watch videos about some other verbs that can be followed by gerunds and infinitives. Learn how their meanings change. used to do – be used to doing stop to do – stop doing Click here to watch

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effective efficient
Intermediate
Jay

Effective – Efficient – They mean different things in English

What is effective? and What is efficient? The answer to these questions will probably be different. Learn about the different meanings of the words effective and efficient. This lesson is going to be really useful if you’re learning business English for your career. Click here to see more business English videos Effective and Efficient video script Here are some strong sleeping tablets, but don’t take them until you go to be. Why not? They’re very

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Intermediate
Jay

Hangout and Q&A 2 (Job and Work vocabulary)

Click here for more hang out and Q & A videos Hey, they’re here. Oh good. You can open them later. Later? Yeah. Hey, we’ve got a new set design. Yes. We’ve got things from all over the world. Can you spot what they are and where they come from? In today’s lesson we’re going to hangout and answer some of your questions again – particularly questions about jobs and job vocabulary. And we have

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Rachel's English American Pronunciation
Advanced
Jay

Rachel of Rachel’s English is interviewed by Jason R Levine (Fluency MC)

Here’s an interview we recorded between a couple of English teachers that many of you may know. Rachel has a fantastic channel on YouTube teaching English pronunciation and Jason also has a fantastic channel where he teaches using rhyme, rhythm and raps. Click here to see more videos on pronunciation Click here to see another video we made with Rachel. An interview with Rachel of Rachel’s English transcript Jason finds out how Rachel began her

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