The most common mistakes in English. Lesson 3

A world in your mobile - app industry in China

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160921-chinas-demanding-consumers-are-fuelling-a-huge-new-industry

Why Brexit happened — and what to do next (English subt) Alexander Betts...

Hush ;)

Where is Europe's "Silicon Valley"?

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160428-the-irish-city-that-won-facebook

Do the Japanese run the best meetings?

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160502-do-the-japanese-run-the-best-meetings

Ever thought of taking a career break?

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160325-the-surprising-benefits-of-a-mid-career-break

The world of accent training

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160317-inside-the-secret-world-of-accent-training

Do you know the sounds of English?

http://www.onestopenglish.com/skills/pronunciation/phonemic-chart-and-app/interactive-phonemic-chart-british-english/

Do you believe in multi-tasking?

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160218-why-multi-tasking-might-not-be-such-a-bad-idea

Margaret Heffernan: Dare to disagree

Is that still child labour?

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35531022

Practice your linking words and expressions

http://www.tolearnenglish.com/cgi2/myexam/liaison.php?liaison=_connecteur_

Maybe not the most attractive, but a website full of examples and exercises on linkers and conjunctions.

Too many words? - practice being concise with these online exercises

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/6/9

In other words

Have you ever tried to unsuccessfully retrieve a word from the tip of your tongue?

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160202-lethologica-when-a-words-on-the-tip-of-your-tongue

Positive and negative agreement

IN, ON, AT

Have you heard of a 'pink tax' before?

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35486308

Collocations GIVE

Collocations BREAK

Expressing purpose: for, to, so that

How to present informally - Apple's iPhone Introduction

The blessing and curse of those who never forget

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160125-the-blessing-and-curse-of-the-people-who-never-forget

EU business competition

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2007/06/070622_eu_competition.shtml

Agreeing & Disagreeing expressions

Is Twitter facing a brain-drain?

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35398101

read more: http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Human_capital_flight

How to run a brainstorm for introverts (and extroverts too)

http://blog.ted.com/how-to-run-a-brainstorm-for-introverts-and-extroverts-too/

Since we're on the topic of ethics this week ...

Apple, Samsung and Sony face child labour claims

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35311456

India's dying professions

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35299619

Is modern life making us tired?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english/ep-160114

MIND -ing

Synonyms: WALK

Can your boss read your private emails?

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35301148

Common mistakes and corrections

Adjectives + Prepositions

Let's TALK synonyms