Issue #86 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Image by benjamin hershey Beep Baseball 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. Beep Baseball was created in 1976 in Chicago, Illinois to allow the blind and visually impaired to participate in this home-grown American sport. The balls emit a beeping sound so the…

Issue #85 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Image by Zac Ong Breakdancing 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. Breakdancing was added to the recent Olympic games in Paris but it’d been around for more than 50 years. It is a form of street dancing that was created in the 1960s in New York City. It highlights…

Issue #84 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Image by kerry2 from Pixabay Marching Bands 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. American football and marching bands go hand-in-hand, and as pre-season football is underway, I thought we would take a look at the entertaining half-time show. Reading Tip Language…

Issue #83 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Photo by Gabriel Gurrola Country Music 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. Country music is an American-made genre of music that began in the southern regions of the United States. First produced in the 1920s, country music is primarily focused on singing stories…

Issue #82 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Photo by Nastya Dulhiier Astrology 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. Oh yeah! It’s my birthday! 💃🏼 As a shy Leo, I thought it would be fun to shine the spotlight on myself and discuss astrology this week. Reading Tip Language Level – B2 Astrology is the study…

Issue #81 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Photo by tvtechnology.com Olympics 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. It’s opening day for the 2024 Olympics in Paris! This should be an exciting year because the 2020 Olympics were overshadowed by a nasty virus named COVID-19. The Olympics will also be a nice…

Issue #80 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Photo by Randy Fath Chess 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. Chess is certainly not an American invention. Some historians believe it was created in India. An ancient legend credits Grand Vizier Sissa Ben Dahir as the game’s originator, and he gifted the first…

Issue #79 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Photo by Frances Gunn Farming 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. Farming is a big part of the American landscape. Whether it is farming foods, livestock or Christmas trees, farming is essential to the American way of life. However, farms are declining in…

Issue #78 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Photo by Marcelo Cidrack Shark Week 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. Shark Week began on the Discovery Channel in 1988. It is a week dedicated to programming about sharks. It usually airs around the beginning of July as an homage to the classic film Jaws. This…

Issue #77 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Photo by Leo_Visions Aliens 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. Americans are fascinated by Aliens. Hollywood movies about Aliens are often big hits, and there is an annual UFO (unidentified flying object) festival in Roswell, New Mexico, in June/July every year….