E-mail language

Teaching business English makes me develop my vocabulary as each area has its own technical terms. It's great fun, but it's also challenging!
A lot of the communication in the business world nowadays is through email and that's where many doubts come up.
Because of this I decided to list here some expressions you can use while writing an email:

To start:
Dear Mr./ Mrs./ Ms...
Hello ...
Good morning/ afternoon/ evening...

To refer to previous contact:
Following our meeting (phone call), I'm writing to...
Sorry for taking so long to answer.

To say thank you:
Thanks for replying so quicly...
I appreciate your help on...

To refer to an attachment:
Please find attached
I'm attaching

To ask for a reply:
I look foward to hearing from you
Please get back to me ASAP

To finish:
Best Regards
Regards
Sincerely

 Activity-Complete the folowing e-mail with the expressions listed above:

__________ Mr. Stevens,

_________________________________, I'm writing to inform you that the order you placed won't arrive on time. I apologize for the inconvenience, but we had problems with our supplier.
_________________ a bonus discount for you next purchase.

_______________
Mary Richards

You can leave your answer on the comments! I hope this can be helpful!

Website Launch- www.skypeclassesluisa.com

I'm proud to announce that my website is ready. It took us 3 months to prepare it, but we made it.

First, I'd like to thank Vitor Carvalho, who designed and programmed the website, the teachers who have already decided to be a part of this project: Caroline Jolie, Juan Gabriel Ruiz Luis and Linda Lemus and my students who wrote beautiful testimonials- Suelen Lopes, Fernando Braune, Nairajane Ellery, Ana Ellery and Germano Braga.

My friend Marie Grammare who is working on the translations to French and my boyfriend Andrés Bertona who not only did the translation to Spanish, but also helped me think about the details of this new challenge.

Besisdes, I'd like to thank my parents for always supporting me in all my projects.
Finally, this is the link:
www.skypeclassesluisa.com
I hope you enjoy it!

ESL VIDEO Activity- Sex and the City

One of the things that has helped me a lot to learn English is to watch TV series and movies in English.
I still do that to keep my English up dated.
Because of that I have created one activity with a video that talks about the movie Sex and the City. I used the service of the website www.eslvideo.com to create this activity.

Here is the link:
http://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz_high_intermediate.php?id=12230

Hope you enjoy it and if you have any doubts, just write them here or on the activity itself.

Expression of the Week- sleep on it

A few weeks ago I was watching a movie with a student of mine and I saw a scene where the characters used the expression - sleep on it.
I edited the scene and added subtitles in some parts.
Watch the video below and try to discover the meaning of this expression.

Write your comments, questions or suggestions!

Something new! + Going to the doctor Activity

One of the things I love about teaching is that we are always learning. This week I learned how to use the technology to help me with my skype classes. A French teacher that will be working with me at my virtual school  presented me to the technology.
That's right! A virtual school. There will be teachers from all over the world teaching all kinds of languages. I'm recruting teachers at the moment. So, if you are interested, contact me through the email: contato@skypeclassesluisa.com
The website will be on very soon!
Going back to what I was saying.There is a website (http://www.eslvideo.com/) where you can use youtube videos to create activities and I have already created my first activity. It was designed for one student in particular, but it can help you too.
Click on the link and you will see it:
http://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz.php?id=11993

Leave your comments! See you soon!

Expression of the Week - 24/7

So this week I went a little crazy and decided to make a video to explain the expression of the week. It's very playful because I used all the fuctions of the program I have for making videos.

I hope you had fun watching this video and that you could understand the expression.

See you soon!

Difference between Cearense and British people

I have just seen this image on facebook and I started laughing hard.
The man is drowning and needs someone to help him, but he can't just scream: "Help!" The British are known for being very polite people and they always apologize (in british "apologise) for everything.
On the other hand, I am from Brazil and was born in a city called Fortaleza which is in the state of Ceará. Beautiful city, really wonderful beaches, but we have a little problem:when we speak we use the imperative 100% of the time! It's not because we are rude, it's just the way we are.
So, picture number 1 would be completely accepted in Ceará.
If you are in England remember to use the magic expressions: excuse me, I wonder if, I'm afraid I can't..., I'm terribly sorry, please and thank you

How are things in your country or city? Which picture would best describe it?