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One fundamental skill to have in the world of business and other environments is certainly negotiation. In our global and intercultural world, considerable adaptation skills, diplomacy, conversational skills, and a good dose of cold blood ...

In TOEFL Speaking and Writing, paraphrasing is very important. Even if a response in these sections is grammatical and easy to understand, it will still receive a very low score if the test-taker copies a ...

British people, what can I say? Well, they have a reputation for being particularly polite as far as the stereotype goes. What are they really like though? The answer- generally very polite. Due to their ...

What’s up guys! Do you sometimes think about different ways in English that you can give confirmation? Today, we are going to have a look at using the verb “to be” to give confirmation in ...

In grammar lessons, you’ve probably heard the terms “verb participle” and “verb tense.” You won’t often use these terms in everyday English conversation, and you probably won’t need to use terms like these on the ...

When people learn a new language, there are always many obstacles and challenges that people need to overcome in order to reach a good level. These obstacles come in many different forms and today we ...

Hey ABA family! As most of us are aware, prepositions in English can be tricky to get the hang of in general. In today’s post, we are going to look at the verb “to go” ...

What’s new everyone? The verb “to be” is the most important verb in English. Today we are going to look at its use in questions in the past simple and how we respond to them ...

On Friday the 24th June the United Kingdom (UK) and the world for that matter, woke up to a result that they were not expecting; the UK had voted to leave the European Union (EU) ...

What’s up ABA family? Today’s blog is going to focus on something simple yet very important– how to express age in English.

Wow! Has another full year passed already? As the sun comes out (finally), London and the tennis world are getting themselves geared up for what is certainly one of the most, if not the most ...

Hey ABA friends! Today we are going to look at the Present Perfect tense in English. We’ll focus on the structure and when it should be used.

What’s new everybody? Have you ever heard a word in English in one place in one context and understood it and then heard the same word in a different context and it didn’t make sense? ...

Hey everyone, how are things? In today’s blog we are going to look at the alphabet in English and its pronunciation as well as seeing if there are any techniques to make spelling in English ...

2016 is shaping up to be quite the year in terms of world sporting events! We have the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics which will certainly be exciting, however in addition to that we ...

How are y’all doing? (That’s American slang for “how are you?”) If you have read a lot in English, you will probably have noticed that there are many different variations of spellings depending on the ...