Friday, November 18, 2011

Figures, abbreviations, symbols and currencies

Here you can find some information on writing figures, abbreviations and symbols from the "Interinstitutional Style Guide". You can also find more information on the same topic on pages 24-25 of the English Style Guide used at the Commission.
Here you can find information on writing monetary units from the Guide.

Composite nouns

Some of the issues that come up in today's session concerning composite nouns can be found here along with some exercises.

Articles

Here you can find the document on articles along with the key for the exercises.

Monday, October 24, 2011

Proposal on Common European Sales Law and press package

Here you can find the proposal on Common European Sales Law as well as the respective press release Claudia told us about.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Subjunctive

A webpage on the use of subjunctive is hereby made available.

Conditionals

Here you can find some information and exercises on conditionals.

Here you can find information and exercises on the same topic along with the key for the exercises. (Source: English Grammar in Use. Intermediate by Raymond Murphy)

Here you can find more mixed exercises on conditionals as well as other linking words that can be used in conditionals. There are also some exercises on expressing wishes.

Saturday, October 8, 2011

The dont's for PowerPoint

Here you can find Don McMillan's standup on the dont's of a PowerPoint presentation.