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.
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?
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."
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.
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!
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.
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?