vocabulary

The water industry

Are you surfing our site from home this week? If you are, we hope you're enjoying your break from work. In this exercise, we look at everyday expressions around the topic of water. We start with some useful idioms.

How do you write emails?

Emails aren't always informal. In fact, in business situations they can be just as formal as "old-fashioned" letters. Do you know which email expressions are informal or formal?

MBA vocabulary for the GMAT (7)

Most business schools require applicants to pass the GMAT to gain a place on an MBA course. If you want to pass the test, you need to know the word that's missing here: "We'll be using the tech conference to s________e our new language-learning programs."

Bewerber

= Graduate Management Admission Test

Disproportionate measures?

Lufthansa pilots went on strike this week, forcing Germany’s flagship airline to cancel flights and its customers to make alternative travel arrangements. Lufthansa called the planned four-day strike “disproportionate”. That's why this adjective is our Wise Word for this week.

streiken

Flaggschiff-; hier: Vorzeige-

unverhältnismäßig

It's time to Skill Up!

When you open up Business Spotlight 2/2010 you’ll find a new product inside. It’s a colourful and stylish 24-page vocabulary guide to help you to skill up — and it's called Skill Up!

Communication idioms

Meetings can test your communication skills. In this test, we focus on idioms that are used to describe effective and ineffective communication.

idiomatische Redewendungen

Business Spotlight 2/2010

Here's an overview of our whole range of language-learning products, including Skill Up! — a new 24-page vocabulary guide that comes with each issue of the magazine. Learn key words, idioms and expressions — and how to learn vocabulary effectively.

Business Spotlight plus 2/2010

BUSINESS SKILLS
How to leave effective
voicemail messages

VOCABULARY
What’s in the news?
From headlines to bylines

CULTURE CORNER
Global virtual teams:
the pros and cons

The winner of our Business Spotlight plus 1/2010 is Silvia Christ from Bergisch Gladbach.

Picture this!

How much time do you spend on building vocabulary with your students? Is there time for more?

Full employment!

Work is all about employment — and employers and employees. Our test looks at how to form words from the base word employ. Can you type the correct form in the box to complete our statements?

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