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Exciting Changes to our Newsletters!
Unlocking Business Knowledge for English Learners
Iain Shirlaw
July 12, 2024
Welcome to Finance Friday.
In this week’s newsletter, we have some exciting updates regarding our newsletter schedule and content. Starting next week, we are making changes to better cater to your interests and needs.
Current Schedule
Motivational Monday
Wisdom Wednesday
Finance Friday
New Schedule
To provide more focused, detailed and valuable content, we will develop the Wednesday Business English newsletters and the Friday Financial newsletters. While the Monday newsletter will be discontinued, the content will appear in one of the other two newsletters, as appropriate. The two remaining newsletters will be rebranded, as follows:
Business Fluency: Unlocking Business Knowledge for English Learners
Financial Fluency: Unlocking Financial Knowledge for English Learners
Business Fluency (Wednesdays) will focus on Business English, relevant business news and motivational content previously covered on Mondays. We will also include some Cambridge Exam techniques which will be useful for all English learners.
Financial Fluency (Fridays) will continue to focus on financial terminology, investing ideas, financial news, overviews of market conditions and motivational insights from the Motivational Monday newsletters.
Subscriber Information
From next week, there will be two separate newsletter mailing lists - one for each of the newsletters. All current subscribers will be added to both lists. While we hope that you will continue to read both newsletters, you now have the option to unsubscribe from one list should you prefer. This also allows readers to recommend each newsletter individually if they wish.
We are excited about these changes and believe they will bring more valuable Business English and financial content to your inbox.
Readers Question - Cabinet Members
Following last week’s newsletter about the UK General election and the new UK government, I received the following question:
You wrote ‘Home Secretary’ and ‘Foreign Secretary’. Please explain more about these jobs and their departments.
The new UK Cabinet with Prime Minister Keir Starmer (centre left of the photo)
The UK government is organised into various departments. Each department is led by a Secretary of State who is appointed by the Prime Minister (currently Keir Starmer). These ministers form the Cabinet. Key positions include the Home Secretary (responsible for immigration and security), Foreign Secretary (responsible for international relations), and Chancellor of the Exchequer (responsible for economic and financial matters). Other important roles are the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and the Secretary of State for Education. Under the leadership of the Prime Minister, these officials play crucial roles in shaping UK policies.
Word of the Day: Cater to Someone/Something
Cater for someone/something - phrasal verb - to satisfy a need or to provide people what is wanted or needed by a particular person or group
Our new software to designed to cater to the needs of small business owners
Also: Cater and Caterer
Cater - verb - to provide, and sometimes serve food, often for a big event such as a wedding or party
Caterer - noun - a person or company who makes or serves food
I am looking for a caterer for my friends wedding
Do you have any Business English questions?
Please email me and I will do my best to answer them in future newsletters.
Until Wednesday - have a great weekend!
Iain.
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