Success at work!
Vocabulary to help your career.  
These podcasts are from my 'ENGLISH IN THE OFFICE courses.   
If you need more help, please send me an italki message, to discuss your needs. 


English for Business

To avoid getting rusty, and to keep up your skills, you should hear and speak English every day.  This can be expensive.  Here are some free ways to keep up your English skills between classes. 

How to keep up your English level 

With 26 letters, (but 44 different sounds), and not many rules, English pronunciation is sometimes difficult.
Sometimes, reading a word, does not help you to say it.  Here is some help.


Pronunciation 

Do you know the difference between these words? 
Answer these questions and find out. 
Please look at the PDFs for the transcript.

Confusing words - intermediate 

A2 - B1  
Conversation Class Preparation.
Listen to the podcast and read the text. 
These podcasts are for my structured conversation class (there are over 80 topics)
(book a class to see the text).

English with Angela -  conversation 

Do you know the difference between these words?
Answer these questions and find out.

Please look at the PDFs for the transcript.


Confusing words  (A2 - Elementary)

The first of April.. A day when playing tricks is fair game. 

The Jerome Meadows Experience

April Fool's Day

Full Episode with Video available on Spotify 

- The Jerome Meadows Experience -

A Better Calendar

GROG LIKE ROCK!

Was your Genetic Code written using Comic Sans? Are you afraid of coming across as a knuckle dragging cave man?

Jerome and Alexis will help you see the grammatic renaissance that is... the passive voice!

How to Exploit Workers using the Passive Voice!

Today we discuss the idioms:

• to be GREEN
• in the RED
• to BLACK out
• the BLACK sheep

Getting in the Red and Blacking Out (Color Idioms)

Do you know the meaning of ALL of these Color IDIOMS

• to have the BLUES
• once in a BLUE moon
• out of the BLUE
• GREEN with envy
• caught RED-handed
• I saw RED

I didn't think so!

Listen and take the test!

Jerome: ⁠https://www.italki.com/user/4075458⁠ 
Alexis: ⁠https://www.italki.com/en/teacher/9464070


She called me out of the BLUE! (Color Idioms)

Always look on the dark side of life!

Murphy's Law, the belief that everything bad that CAN go wrong... WILL go wrong!

Murphy's Law

In today's episode we talk about "Bribery" the ability to get special treatment and the cost of secret illegal payments.

Today's Vocabulary will include:

• to fine vs to be fine
• a bribe
• to bribe
• a curfew
• quarantine
• odd vs even
• to forge 
• influence 
• reward
• perks

Teachers:
Jerome: https://www.italki.com/user/4075458
Alexis: https://www.italki.com/en/teacher/9464070


Bribery & Corruption

In today's podcast we discuss using some simple psychological tricks to make life a little bit easier.

But be warned...

We can't guarantee you'll be a better person for using them!

