Espresso English Business English Buzzwords
Espresso English Business English Buzzwords teaches fourteen informal expressions heard at work by carrying them through one connected story, from pushing the envelope and causing a paradigm shift to meeting pushback, working on a shoestring budget, pitching an idea and bootstrapping a company. Shayna, the American teacher behind Espresso English, explains each expression in plain words as the story moves on.
100% Free (unlimited): The lesson is open to anyone, with no account and no payment: the fourteen expressions, their meanings and the story that carries them. An email address brings a free book of real English phrases if you want it, and the site sells separate courses, neither of which is needed to read the lesson.
How It Helps Your Business English
Fourteen informal business expressions are taught inside a single story about an employee who innovates, meets resistance, loses a job in a budget squeeze and starts a company. Each expression appears in the story and is explained in plain words immediately after it, among them push the envelope, paradigm shift, pushback, rock the boat, streamline, shoestring budget, pitch and bootstrap.
Read the story straight through once to see the expressions in a setting that holds them together, then go back and cover the explanations to test what each one means. Because the expressions follow one another in a single narrative, you remember them as a sequence rather than as a list. Say the sentences aloud to get used to where the stress falls in each phrase.
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