The English Breakfast ☕
Hi there,
Welcome back to The English Breakfast — the newsletter for Italian professionals who want to feel more confident in English at work.
Your weekly hit of phrasal verbs:
More and more of you are taking part in the Fantastic Phrasal Verbs quiz each week.
But — unbelievably — once again, only two people got all 10 questions correct last time.
(High five if you were one of them. You know who you are. 🙌)
This week’s edition focuses on phrasal verbs you might hear in a work meeting — the kind that native speakers use without even thinking.
Do you know them all?
Hit play and find out.
Tocca a te…
In my ongoing mission to convince my students that English can actually be fun, we play a lot of games in class.
And during those games, someone inevitably wants to say: “Tocca a te.”
The problem?
They often use a phrase they think sounds right… but actually means something completely different.
Would you say the correct thing?
Watch this week’s mini-lesson to find out.
A four-day work week? Tell me more…
I hope you’ve had a great week. Just to make you slightly jealous… mine was only three days long.
Since Thursday, I’ve been in the mountains for an annual ski weekend — a tradition I have with a couple of friends from the UK.
And all this snow, fun, and lack of emails has got me thinking: what if a shorter work week wasn’t the exception… but the norm?
The Dutch have quietly been adopting a four-day work week since 2019.
Could it be the future?
Your task 🏆
Step 1: In the article, find these three expressions and match them to the correct definitions below:
Throw yourself into (something)
Put something down to (something)
Get on board
a) To agree to join or support an idea
b) To say something is caused by a particular reason
c) To start doing something with a lot of energy and commitment
Step 2: Answer the questions below in a reply to this email — I’ll correct it personally.
Have you ever thrown yourself into a project and later regretted it?
What do you usually put productivity down to — long hours or smart organisation?
Would your company ever get on board with a four-day week? Why / why not?
If you had a free Friday every week… how would you use it? (Skiing is a valid answer at this time of year. I fully support it.)
If you enjoyed this, you’ll love the 99 everyday idioms inside my e-book. Take a look here.
All right, that’s it for this week’s edition.
Have a great week and I’ll see you next time.
All the best,
Dan
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