B.E.L.L. Tips

Issue #115 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Puerto Rico Each week I will send out some handy tips and useful exercises for adults learning to navigate and use the English language. Please feel free to share this newsletter with friends and colleagues. Puerto Rico is a self-governed unincorporated territory of the United States. What does that mean? It means that it has its own democratic system of government, and the citizens are US citizens, but they don't have...

Issue #114 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Dancing Cows Each week I will send out some handy tips and useful exercises for adults learning to navigate and use the English language. Please feel free to share this newsletter with friends and colleagues. March 20th marks the spring equinox this year and that means the cows in Denmark get to frolic in green fields soon. It is a law that cows must be let out to pasture from April to November and Dancing Cow Day has...

Issue #113 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) The 13th Floor Each week I will send out some handy tips and useful exercises for adults learning to navigate and use the English language. Please feel free to share this newsletter with friends and colleagues. Why don't hotels in the US have a 13th floor? Step into an elevator, and you will find that the buttons often jump from the 12th floor to the 14th floor. Many hotels in the U.S. avoid labeling a floor as the...

Issue #112 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Spring Break Each week I will send out some handy tips and useful exercises for adults learning to navigate and use the English language. Please feel free to share this newsletter with friends and colleagues. It is spring break season in the U.S., and that means a lot of concerts, alcohol, and teeny bikini's as college students around the country ascend on beach towns to party. Florida is the most popular spring break...

Issue #111 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Carnaval Each week I will send out some handy tips and useful exercises for adults learning to navigate and use the English language. Please feel free to share this newsletter with friends and colleagues. This weekend, cities around the world will be celebrating Carnaval. In the U.S. it is called Mardi Gras and the most famous celebration is in New Orleans. Carnaval has Catholic roots and is a time for festivities and...

Issue #110 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Book Clubs I will send out some handy tips and useful exercises for adults learning to navigate and use the English language each week. Please feel free to share this newsletter with friends and colleagues. Book clubs have become quite popular in the United States in the past 20 years. Oprah's Book Club is probably the most famous, but there is also Reese Witherspoon, Jimmy Fallon and Morning Show book club's with Good...

Issue #109 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Hip Hop I will send out some handy tips and useful exercises for adults learning to navigate and use the English language each week. Please feel free to share this newsletter with friends and colleagues. Hip-hop is a cultural movement that attained popularity in the 1980s and ’90s. It is the backing music for rap, the musical style incorporating rhythmic and/or rhyming speech, that became the movement’s most lasting...

Issue #108 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Coca-Cola I will send out some handy tips and useful exercises for adults learning to navigate and use the English language each week. Please feel free to share this newsletter with friends and colleagues. Coca-Cola is the second most recognized English word in the world, right behind OK. In 1886 in Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. John Stith Pemberton invented this refreshing drink that would eventually be consumed around the...

Issue #107 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Silicon Valley I will send out some handy tips and useful exercises for adults learning to navigate and use the English language each week. Please feel free to share this newsletter with friends and colleagues. Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that is a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the...