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B1 Technology & Media Vocabulary: Devices, Apps and Online Life

This B1 Technology & Media Vocabulary module covers 60 words for the devices, apps and online habits people talk about every day — smartphone, browser, password and notification, together with the verbs that go with them: upload, stream, subscribe, back up, log in. Every word comes with flashcards, a word-formation drill, a collocations match and a twelve-question quiz, free and self-scoring.

  • 60 words
  • 4 practice modes
  • 12-question quiz
  • Free progress tracking
  • No sign-up

What’s inside this module

Four stages: meet the words, build other forms from them, pair them with the words they normally go with, then test yourself.

Flashcards

Sixty cards, each with the word, its part of speech, a B1 definition, an example sentence, and two typical collocations on the back — an outdated browser, update the app, sign up for free. Rate each card “I knew it” or “Still learning” and your ratings are saved automatically.

Word formation

Eight gap sentences that ask for a different form of a word you have just met: subscribe becomes subscription, publish becomes publication, react becomes reaction, delete becomes deletion. The endings -tion and -ion do most of the work in this topic.

Collocations & phrases

Ten pairs from real online life: go viral, connect to the wifi, a broken screen, an outdated browser, forget your password, adjust your settings, a catchy headline, listen to a podcast.

12-question quiz

A mix of multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank, with an explanation after every answer, right or wrong. Your best score is saved automatically.

How to get the most from it

Five habits that make B1 vocabulary stick, not just pass a quiz.

The verbs matter more than the nouns

Most learners already recognize app, screen and wifi. What they cannot yet do is upload, back up, log out, plug in and shut down without stopping to think. Spend your time on the verbs in this deck, not on the nouns you can already name.

Watch the two-word verbs

Log in, log out, back up, switch on, switch off, sign up, look up and shut down are two words as verbs but usually one word as nouns: a backup, a login. The difference is invisible when you speak and very visible when you write.

Describing words carry the opinion

Viral, outdated, user-friendly, wireless, online and offline are what let you have a view about technology rather than only naming it. A user-friendly app and an outdated browser say far more than a good app and a bad browser.

Come back for the re-deal

After you finish the flashcard deck, it automatically rebuilds itself from just the words marked “still learning.” A short second pass on the hard ones is worth more than repeating the whole deck.

Use one this week

Explain one thing you did on your phone today using three words from this module — back up, subscribe, notification, settings. Saying “I turned off notifications in the settings” out loud once beats a second pass through the deck.

Where these words go next

Eight words from this module — headline, article, influencer, viral, broadcast, subscription, review, publish — come back as the warm-up deck of the B2 media module.