Learn the essential academic English vocabulary for studying a university course in English, for IELTS or for a pre-sessional language course. This intermediate Zapp! English Academic Vocabulary listening course contains 5 hours of audio lessons with REAL ENGLISH CONVERSATIONS.
Nobody likes telling the boss there is a problem. So, as Annie points out, “Well people often use issues as a synonym for problems, don’t they?” — and suddenly the project has issues, and you will get it to them tomorrow. That small piece of office diplomacy is exactly why …
Near the end of this unit, Katie and Keith work through all the ways English uses range — a car’s petrol tank, a weather forecast, a golf driving range, a product that comes in different colours — until Katie can’t resist: “Range has a range of uses.” That is more …
Katie asks a simple question about the word function and gets a very English answer. “Do you have a function?” she says, and after the laughter dies down the conversation turns into a proper explanation: phones that make calls, send emails and take photographs, and “Multi-functional devices.” Then Katie adds …