B2 Work & Business Vocabulary: Hiring, Meetings and Office Idioms
This B2 Work and Business Vocabulary module covers 60 entries for working life — the hiring words (candidate, shortlist, probation, redundancy, vacancy), the things people actually do at work (meet a deadline, chair a meeting, delegate a task, negotiate a contract), and the office idioms that turn up in ordinary emails: learn the ropes, touch base, on the same page. Every entry comes with flashcards, a word-formation drill, a collocations match and a twelve-question quiz, free and self-scoring.
- 60 entries
- 4 practice modes
- 12-question quiz
- Free progress tracking
- No sign-up
What’s inside this module
Four stages: meet the entries, build other forms from them, pair them with the words they normally go with, then test yourself.
Flashcards
Sixty cards, each with the entry, its part of speech, a B2 definition, an example sentence, and two typical collocations on the back — recruit staff, a glowing reference, collaborate closely. Rate each card “I knew it” or “Still learning” and your ratings are saved automatically.
Word formation
Ten gap sentences here, two more than most modules: applicant becomes apply, recruit becomes recruitment, resignation becomes resign, collaborate becomes collaboration, entrepreneur becomes entrepreneurship. Every answer comes with a one-line explanation of why that form fits the gap.
Collocations & phrases
Ten pairs from a real working year: shortlist a candidate, polish your CV, come off probation, face redundancy, submit your letter of resignation, fill a vacancy, blow the budget, set an ambitious target.
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 B2 vocabulary stick, not just pass a quiz.
The hiring words are a sequence
A vacancy is advertised, applicants apply, some are shortlisted, one is interviewed and recruited, and then serves a probation period. Learning them in that order gives you a story to hang them on instead of fifteen separate nouns.
The idioms are ordinary office English
Touch base, get the ball rolling, learn the ropes, back to the drawing board and on the same page are not decoration. They appear in normal work emails, and understanding them is often the difference between following a meeting and losing the thread of it.
Redundancy is not resignation
Redundancy is the job itself disappearing. Resignation is you choosing to leave. They are not interchangeable, and swapping them in an interview or a cover letter changes the whole meaning of what you just said about yourself.
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
Describe your own job, or one you would like to have, in four sentences using words from this deck — workload, deadline, colleague, target, overtime. Writing about your real week is what turns this list into language you can use.
Where these words go next
Eight words from this module — acquisition, appraisal, budget, contract, productivity, recruit, revenue, stakeholder — come back as the warm-up deck of the C1 business module.