English Tips

Hello fellow travelers !  Can you describe your work environment? your work place, the people (colleagues, bosses, peers…) the facilities (air conditioning, computers, changing room…) the atmosphere (tense, formal, relaxed, laid back, informal…) Example: I work in an open office there are about 20 of us the facilities are pretty good, we have […]

Hi fellow travelers! Let’s continue talking about our job:        WORK You use the progressive -ing form of work to talk about a temporary job. For example, if you say ‘I’m working in Manaus’, this suggests that the situation is temporary and you may soon move. And simple forms […]

O DECEA recebeu a visita de oficiais de Nações Amigas (ONA), nesta última terça-feira, 30 de maio. Os oficiais eram representantes de sete países: Estados Unidos, Canadá, Índia, Chile, África do Sul, Argentina e Peru. A visita teve o objetivo de mostrar as atividades e a respectiva missão das organizações […]

Hi Fellow Travelers! Did you miss the TIPS? I hope so! Let’s talk about the three more  DIRTY DOZEN: Pressure – We may come under pressure from the Company, from clients and even our colleagues. However, one of the most common sources of pressure is ourselves. We put pressure on ourselves by […]

Hello Fellow Travelers! How was your Holiday ? THE DIRTY DOZEN: Lack of … Lack of … means deficiency or absence of something needed.   Lack of Teamwork – When someone is not contributing to the team effort.   Lack of Awareness – A partial view, it’s an attitude of […]

Hello fellow travelers! How are you doing on this rainy day? Complacency  is one of the Dirty Dozen that we’re going to talk about today, it can be described as a feeling of self-satisfaction accompanied by a loss of awareness (when you don’t know about it) of potential dangers.   […]

Hi Fellow Travelers! Let’s continue talking about the dirty dozen: STRESS is one of the Dirty Dozen human error precursors that can lead to mistakes in the workplace. Some early visible signs of stress include:   changes in personality and moods   ,   lack (absence) of concentration,   poor memory,   difficulty in sleeping and   […]

Haisait, How are you doing? Here is this week’s material! Feel free to talk to us about it! Gutbai, ——— THE DIRTY DOZEN: Lack of communication——— Effective communication is essential to prevent mistakes in the workplace. Lack of communication is a crucial human error precursor in Dirty Dozen. Direct translation can […]

Haisait, How are you doing? Here is this week’s material! Feel free to talk to us about it! Gutbai,   Lack of knowledge is one of the Dirty Dozen human error precursors that can lead to mistakes in the workplace. In particular, mispronunciation due to a poor understanding of English pronunciation […]

Kia ora, How are you doing? Here is this week’s material! Feel free to talk to us about it! Tēnā koe, Today’s English Tips will discuss “The Dirty Dozen”, which refers to twelve common human error preconditions that can lead to accidents or incidents. Developed by Gordon Dupont in 1993, it […]

Dear fellow travelers, Today we’re going to see some non-formal expressions with the verb Let: Deixa eu pensar                                         Let me think Deixa eu fazer                                            Let me do it     Deixa eu tentar                                          Let me try Deixa eu explicar                                       Let me explain Deixa eu te perguntar                              Let me ask you Deixa eu dormir                                        Let me sleep Deixa […]

Hi Fellow Travelers!   Today we’re going to talk about Drones, as a friend of ours suggested.   Did you hear about this incident that happened on Tuesday (March 14th)?     “Russian fighter jet forces down (to make a plane land) US drone over Black Sea”   “A Russian fighter jet struck (past of […]

Hello fellow travelers! Let’s remember one more thing about last week’s topic: Past Simple and Continuous Here we go… The order of the Past Simple and the Past continuous in the sentence does not matter – the meaning doesn’t change: I had a coffee while I was waiting for the […]

Hi there fellow travelers ! Today we’re “gonna” talk about the past simple and continuous,  Here we go…  We use the Past Simple to say that an event happened after another event.  I stopped working, and then I ate lunch. We watched TV after you rang.   They played tennis in the morning, and then he fell on his way home. We use the Past Continuous to say that an activity was in […]