English practice
Explore English through words, conversations and everyday situations.
B2A conversation you can use
B2 language for leading a decision meeting and recording the result: “If we look at the facts…”, “I’m not convinced that…”, “Can we move on to…?”, fewer or less, and a 160–190-word decision memo with a rejected option and review triggers.
B1A conversation you can use
B1 English for hosting a business visit: welcoming a guest at reception, Mr, Ms, Dr and first names, phrasal verbs such as pick up and show around, a, an and the, a timed itinerary and asking what guests prefer.
B1A conversation you can use
A2–B1 English for hiring: vacancy, applicant, shortlist and evaluate, the present perfect for experience, polite alternatives to a flat no, and a five-part candidate evaluation with an owner and a deadline.
A2A conversation you can use
A2 English for work events: joining and leaving a conversation, irregular past verbs with time expressions such as last Tuesday and two days ago, networking words, and a short follow-up email with where you met, one topic and the next step.
A1A conversation you can use
A1 English for a team lunch or event at work: write a four-line notice, invite a colleague with “Would you like to…?”, say yes or no politely and use “on Friday at 12:30”.
C1A conversation you can use
C1 English for turning a promising trial into an honest proposal: very or absolutely, quite a or a rather, not absolutely or absolutely not, where only goes, phrases that evaluate ideas, and a 170–200-word decision record with a stop condition.
B2A conversation you can use
B2 language for confirming a supplier site visit: future forms for arrangements and timetables, “We’d like to invite you to…”, “We strongly recommend…”, words for ethics and evidence, and a 150–180-word email with a reply deadline.
B1A conversation you can use
B1 English for customer service: customer satisfaction, expectations and loyalty, customer versus client, present tenses for future plans, polite ways to say sorry, and a six-heading plan for a service pilot.
B1A conversation you can use
A2–B1 English for customer complaints: complaint, refund, replacement and delay, softening bad news, comparatives to explain a solution, a complaint call and a five-part complaint record with an owner and a follow-up date.
A2A conversation you can use
A2 English for order problems at work: names of business documents, the past simple with was, were and -ed verbs, apologizing and responding, and a short email that says what went wrong, what you fixed and what happens next.
A1A conversation you can use
A1 English for phone orders and short confirmation emails: give the item number, tell the unit price from the total, say big numbers clearly and confirm the quantity, total and delivery day.
C1A conversation you can use
C1 English for a cross-team conflict: it-clefts and what-clefts that name the process rather than a person, inversion after only and rarely, phrases to refocus and compromise in a tense meeting, and a 170–200-word repair record.
B2A conversation you can use
B2 language for following up a product or service proposal: evidence verbs by strength (shows, suggests, proves), could versus was able to, saying what a trial cannot show, and a 150–180-word email that proposes a measurable pilot.
B1A conversation you can use
B1 language for presenting a new system at work: linking features to benefits with “which means” and “so”, let, enable and allow, comparatives with much and slightly, and a five-heading recommendation with a condition.
B1A conversation you can use
A2–B1 English for business visits: company-structure words, welcoming a visitor at reception, questions with who, what and when, polite indirect questions, confirming details and a schedule for several hosts.
A2A conversation you can use
A2 English for getting and giving help with files and apps at work: phrases to ask for and offer help, technology words, steps with first, next, then and finally, how often, and a four-step help note.
A1A conversation you can use
A1 English for a short talk about your work: answer nine common questions about your job, use verbs such as manage, meet and run, and speak for a minute from notes.
C1A conversation you can use
C1 English for incident records that cannot be misread: it, this, that, these and those for precise reference, labelling ambiguous nouns, risk adjectives such as prudent and rash, checking questions on a call and a 170–200-word decision record with a trigger.
