What a year it has been. May this post be a reminder to all that 2020 was one of the most difficult in living memory for the majority of the world's population. 

As we say good bye to 2020, this week I give you some of my reflections and wish you all a brighter, more prosperous 2021. 

I have also included the most popular episodes from this year so that you can catch up on any that you missed.

Stay safe and may 2021 bring you health, wealth and happiness. 

Welcome back to The Art of Business English. Well, it's almost Christmas and this week I am going to finish up my two-part series into the Passive Voice. 

Today, I will be looking at the Passive Voice for reporting and for talking about having or getting services done. 

Below I have also included some popular Christmas episodes for you which you can look back on and check out if you haven't listened to them in the past. 

Hey, welcome to another free episode of the Art of Business English podcast. In this week's episode I am sharing with you some tips on how you can use the passive voice in your reports. Do you write reports for work? If so, then you will definitely need to check out this episode. Using the passive voice in your writing will help it to sound more formal and less personal. This is ideal for a report, as a report is a piece of writing that has a neutral to formal tone.

In episode 145 of the AOBE we are looking into some extremely useful expressions that you can use in your next business meeting, which all contain the word "point". You will be surprised how many very useful expressions can be made just from this one word.

In today's episode I am going to share with you 10 idioms with the word "pain" that you can use to describe different scenarios at work. As you will see, many of them don't actually refer to the actual sensation of pain.

Today we are teaching you some more advanced grammar tenses and how you can use them correctly to improve your English. This week we will be covering "be about to", "Future Continuous" and "Future Perfect Simple".

This week we are going to be covering three commonly used forms of the future. In this lesson you will learn how to use them in the correct context and use them like a native.

Here are 10 collocations with the word boost that you can add to your vocabulary and start using them now.

Today on the Art of Business English we are looking at some grammar, specifically, how to use "used to" and "would" for talking about past actions.   

This week on the Art of Business English podcast I invite you to an interview with a very inspiring young man from Canada, Brenden Kumarasamy, an expert in public speaking.

Brenden is the founder of Master Talk, a YouTube channel dedicated to helping people improve their public speaking skills and overcome their fears.

I caught up with him and we discussed the idea of presenting in a foreign language and he shares with us his tips to making this task the least painful as possible.