Complaining and Criticizing - English at Work

Learn to recognize and express criticism and complaints and use the present perfect tense with periods of time.

Key Learning points

• LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS
  Resigned criticism, unfriendly criticism, personal criticism and detailed complaints.
   
• GRAMMAR
  Present Perfect Tense - Periods of Time - For, In and Since.
   
• IDIOMS
  Out of line; Right off the bat; Dump on someone; Bring nothing to the table; Drive someone up the wall; Tear someone to shreds; For ages.
   
• VOCABULARY
  obviously; organized; complaints; lanyard; overheard; appalled; accountability; wishy washy.
   
• PRONUNCIATION
  The Sund of SH.

This video is part of the English at Work Series, created by Psychologist Eve Ash, linguistics expert Dr Fran Byrnes, features comedienne Erin Brown and Emmy-award winning Kim Estes.

The Cutting Edge English at Work Series promotes communication and language competence by building the desire and motivation to learn and the confidence to try. Confidence in learning and using English leads to successful communication.

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