Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 454

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  Hi there.

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  This is Harry.

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  Welcome back to advanced English lessons with Harry, where I try to help you to get a better understanding of the english language, to help you with your conversational skills, your business English skills, interview skills, whatever your goals are, we're here to help.

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  And for those of you and your friends or family who want one to one lessons, well, you know what to do.

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  Just get in touch www.englishlessonviaskype.com and you can apply for a free trial lesson.

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  And we'd be very happy to hear from you and very happy to help you.

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  Okay, so as I said, this is an advanced English lesson, and in this particular lesson, we're looking at useful phrases for essays.

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  So this is all about your written English, useful phrases for essays and most of the phrases I'm going to give you now are really good for more formal type of writing.

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  So if you're writing an essay for a particular exam, whether it be ielts or FCE or CAE, these expressions are really useful.

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  You could be writing a thesis, you could be writing reports.

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  You could be getting your students to write essays.

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  So they're going to be helpful for you in that respect.

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  So, as I said, they're quite formal.

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  I've divided them into different sections, but it's all about phrases that you would use to make your English sound a little better.

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  And in exams in particular, Ilse and CAE, the examiner loves to see these types of phrases used because it indicates that you've got a better understanding of the english language, that you can use these phrases in certain paragraphs throughout your essay, either at the beginning or the middle or the end of your essay.

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  So look at them carefully, practice them, try and use them, and see how you can introduce them into your writing.

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  Now, they're not expressions that I would generally use in spoken English.

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  You might use one or two of them in a real formal setting.

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  Or if you're making a presentation, for example, to your colleagues or clients or at some convention, then of course you might find a use for these expressions because you'll probably include them in a PowerPoint presentation.

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  But ultimately, and mostly, I've put them down here for ways of helping you to improve your written English.

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