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  • Numbers, Dates and Prices (PDF)

    Numbers, Dates and Prices (PDF)

    Numbers, dates, and prices are the most consequential everyday-English skill below word level. Mistakes here aren’t grammar errors — they’re missed appointments, wrong addresses, and overpayments. One, two… twenty… thirty… one hundred… one thousand… a million for cardinal numbers. First, second, third… twenty-first for ordinals (used for dates). Monday, Tuesday… March, April… 2026, 2030 for days, months, years. £12.50, $99.99, €15 for prices with currency. Combined, this is the productive base every A1 learner needs to handle shops, bookings, addresses, and dates.

    This worksheet builds A1 confidence with numbers, dates, and prices in transactional contexts.

    What’s inside:

    • Reference table with cardinals, ordinals, days, months, and price formats
    • Listening-style dictation: write the numbers, prices, and dates you hear
    • Gap-fill in shop dialogues, booking confirmations, and date-of-birth forms
    • Personalised production: write today’s date, your birthday, and a price for three items you own
    • Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes with dictation extension

    Common challenges: 13, 14, 15 vs 30, 40, 50 sound similar at speed — the central A1 listening trap. Date conventions differ: British 14 March 2026, American March 14, 2026 — both common in international English. Price conventions: £12.50 read as twelve pounds fifty (no and); $99.99 as ninety-nine ninety-nine or ninety-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents. Phone numbers read digit by digit: 020-7946-0182 as oh two oh, seven nine four six, oh one eight two.

    For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR A1, in beginner classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. Numbers, dates, and prices are tested in Cambridge A2 Key (KET) Listening Parts 1–2 and embedded across Speaking. Part of the Work & Money collection — the natural next step is Jobs and Occupations Vocabulary, which extends number-and-money basics into employment vocabulary.

  • Money and Personal Finance Vocabulary (PDF)

    Money and Personal Finance Vocabulary (PDF)

    Money and personal finance vocabulary is the language of adult financial life: salary, wages, income, expenses, savings, budget, debt, loan, mortgage, interest rate, credit card, bank account, current account, savings account, overdraft, transfer, deposit, withdrawal, invest, share, stock, pension. The worksheet covers the productive vocabulary every B1–B2 learner needs to discuss income and spending, read financial news, and handle banking conversations.

    This worksheet builds B1–B2 fluency with money-and-finance vocabulary in banking and lifestyle contexts.

    What’s inside:

    • Vocabulary box with 40+ finance terms grouped by category (income, banking, debt, investment)
    • Multiple-choice items targeting collocation accuracy (open an account, take out a loan, pay back a debt, save for retirement)
    • Gap-fill in financial-conversation contexts (a bank visit, a financial-advice email)
    • Personalised production: describe your spending priorities or financial goals
    • Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes with budget-planning extension

    Common challenges: Borrow vs lend is the central B1 trap — I borrowed money from her / She lent money to me. Salary vs wage: salary is monthly/annual professional; wage is hourly/weekly manual or service. False friends: German Salär exists but is outdated, learners often expect salary to mean bonus. Idiomatic finance language: make ends meet, live within your means, save up for, splash out on, pay through the nose.

    For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR B1 to B2, in intermediate and upper-intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. Money vocabulary is core to Cambridge B1 Preliminary (PET), B2 First (FCE), and BEC Vantage. Part of the Work & Money collection — the natural next step is Business English Meetings Vocabulary, which moves money talk into the professional-meeting context.

  • Jobs and Occupations Vocabulary (PDF)

    Jobs and Occupations Vocabulary (PDF)

    Jobs and occupations vocabulary covers one of the most personally consequential lexical areas: how learners describe what they do. Teacher, doctor, nurse, engineer, accountant, lawyer, manager, designer, chef, mechanic, electrician, plumber, sales assistant, receptionist anchor the everyday range. Employed, unemployed, self-employed, freelance, full-time, part-time, retired, on maternity leave describe employment status. Collocations matter: work as a teacher, work in a hospital, work for a tech company, run my own business. The worksheet builds the everyday job-vocabulary every A2 learner needs to handle introductions, interviews, and CV writing.

    This worksheet builds A2 fluency with jobs and occupations vocabulary in describing-and-comparing contexts.

    What’s inside:

    • Vocabulary box with 40+ job titles grouped by sector (healthcare, education, services, technical, business)
    • Picture-matching task for visual anchoring
    • Job-description gap-fill: complete sentences about what each role involves
    • Personalised production: describe your current or future job in three sentences
    • Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes with role-play (mock interview) extension

    Common challenges: Job, work, career, profession all translate to single words in many L1s — job (specific position), work (general activity, uncountable), career (long-term professional life), profession (qualified field). Gender-neutral terms now standard in English: firefighter (not fireman), flight attendant (not stewardess), police officer (not policeman). Prepositions trip up: work as a teacher (role), work for a school (employer), work in education (sector).

    For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR A2, in pre-intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. Jobs vocabulary is core to Cambridge A2 Key (KET) Speaking Part 1 and B1 Preliminary (PET) introductions. Part of the Work & Money collection — the natural next step is Money and Personal Finance Vocabulary, which extends jobs into the income-and-finance dimension.

  • Job Interview Vocabulary (PDF)

    Job Interview Vocabulary (PDF)

    Job-interview vocabulary covers one of the most personally consequential professional contexts: how learners present themselves to a prospective employer in English. Apply for a position, send a CV / resume, cover letter, references, qualifications, experience, skills, strengths, weaknesses, achievements, salary expectations, notice period, start date, benefits package, role, responsibilities, team fit, career goals. The worksheet covers the productive vocabulary B1–B2 learners need to participate confidently in a job interview in English.

    This worksheet builds B1–B2 fluency with job-interview vocabulary in interview practice contexts.

    What’s inside:

    • Vocabulary box with 35+ interview terms grouped by phase (application, interview, follow-up)
    • Multiple-choice items targeting collocation accuracy (meet the requirements, fit the role, gain experience)
    • Interview-question gap-fill: complete standard interview Q&A
    • Role-play scenarios with interviewer and candidate prompts
    • Personalised production: write your own three-sentence answers to Tell me about yourself, What’s your greatest weakness?, Why do you want this role?

    Common challenges: CV (Latin curriculum vitae, UK and EU) vs resume (US) is the central terminology split. Hiring manager (US) vs recruiter / HR (UK) varies. STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result) for behavioural questions is unfamiliar to learners outside English-speaking professional culture. False friends: German Bewerbung maps to application; Lebenslauf maps to CV. Position, role, job often used interchangeably but vary in formality (position > role > job).

    For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR B1 to B2, in intermediate and upper-intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study — particularly job-seekers and learners preparing for English-speaking workplaces. Tested in Cambridge BEC Vantage, BEC Higher, and embedded in B2 First (FCE) Writing tasks. Part of the Work & Money collection — the natural next step is Numbers, Dates and Prices, which provides the foundational numeracy work professional English depends on.

  • Advertising and Marketing Vocabulary (PDF)

    Advertising and Marketing Vocabulary (PDF)

    Advertising and marketing vocabulary covers the persuasive-business-English register that fills brand campaigns, product launches, and consumer-facing communication. Target audience, market segment, demographic, brand identity, brand awareness, USP (unique selling point), positioning, market share, conversion rate, customer journey, call-to-action, lead generation, retention, engagement, reach, impression, ROI (return on investment). The worksheet trains B2 learners to read marketing texts, understand campaign briefs, and discuss commercial communication critically.

    This worksheet builds B2 fluency with advertising and marketing vocabulary in campaign and analytical contexts.

    What’s inside:

    • Vocabulary box with 35+ marketing terms grouped by function (audience, brand, campaign, metrics)
    • Marketing-brief gap-fill targeting key vocabulary
    • Multiple-choice items distinguishing similar terms (reach vs impression, engagement vs conversion)
    • Production task: write a short campaign brief for a product of your choice
    • Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes with case-study extension

    Common challenges: Acronyms are dense — KPI, ROI, CTA, USP, SEO, PPC, B2B, B2C — and need explicit unpacking. Persuasive register is full of superlative claims that learners need to read sceptically (revolutionary, breakthrough, game-changing). False friends: German Reklame maps to advertising in older usage but feels outdated; Werbung is the modern term. Marketing-English is heavily Americanised globally — trash talk, snail mail, no-brainer feel natural in US marketing English and forced elsewhere.

    For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR B2, in upper-intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study — particularly working professionals in marketing, sales, communications, or media. Tested in Cambridge B2 First (FCE), C1 Advanced (CAE), and BEC. Part of the Work & Money collection — the natural next step is Job Interview Vocabulary, which extends business-and-marketing English into the career-application dimension.

  • Business English: Presenting Data (PDF)

    Business English: Presenting Data (PDF)

    Data-presentation vocabulary is the language of business reporting: rise, increase, climb, soar, surge, peak for going up; fall, decrease, decline, plummet, drop, slip for going down; level off, plateau, stabilise, fluctuate, remain steady for staying constant. Adverbs of degree refine the picture: slightly, gradually, steadily, sharply, dramatically, significantly, markedly. Combined with chart-and-graph vocabulary (bar chart, line graph, pie chart, scatter plot, data point, trend line, axis, segment, peak, trough), this is the productive base for presenting and interpreting quantitative information.

    This worksheet builds B2 fluency with data-presentation vocabulary in graph-commentary contexts.

    What’s inside:

    • Vocabulary box with 30+ data-movement verbs and adverbs of degree
    • Chart-description gap-fill: complete the commentary with appropriate verbs and adverbs
    • Graph-interpretation task: write a paragraph describing a chart’s main trends
    • Multiple-choice items targeting collocation accuracy (rise sharply, fall gradually, remain stable)
    • Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes on register and presentation-skill criteria

    Common challenges: Verb-adverb collocations are the central trap — rise sharply and rise dramatically sound natural; rise slowly and rise gradually sound natural; but rise lightly and rise heavily don’t work. False friends with data: German dramatisch maps to dramatic; but English dramatic is often hyperbolic — significant is the safer formal alternative. Numbers and percentages: approximately, roughly, around, just over, just under signal rounding; exactly signals precision.

    For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR B2, in upper-intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study — particularly professionals presenting data or learners preparing for academic or business writing. Tested in Cambridge B2 First (FCE), C1 Advanced (CAE), and BEC. Part of the Work & Money collection — the natural next step is Advertising and Marketing Vocabulary, which extends business communication into the persuasive-language domain.

  • Business English: Negotiation Language (PDF)

    Business English: Negotiation Language (PDF)

    Negotiation language is the high-stakes professional vocabulary of buying, selling, persuading, and reaching agreement. Make an offer, counter-offer, accept, reject, compromise, meet halfway, common ground, sticking point, deal-breaker, bottom line, give and take, walk away, BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement). Combined with hedging vocabulary (we’d be willing to, in principle, subject to, provided that) and conditional language (If you could…, We might be able to…), this is the productive base for B2 negotiation in real and exam contexts.

    This worksheet builds B2 fluency with negotiation language in professional and consumer contexts.

    What’s inside:

    • Vocabulary box with 30+ negotiation terms grouped by phase (offer, counter-offer, agreement, breakdown)
    • Negotiation-dialogue gap-fill in supplier-and-buyer contexts
    • Role-play scenarios with role cards for both sides
    • Multiple-choice items targeting register and politeness levels
    • Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes on intercultural negotiation conventions

    Common challenges: Direct refusal sounds rude in English negotiation — No is replaced with That’s not something we could agree to, I’m afraid that’s not workable, We’d struggle with that. Conditional politeness: If you could move on the delivery date, we might be able to accept the price — the conditional softens what would otherwise be a hard counter-offer. Cultural variation matters: high-context cultures (East Asia, Latin America) prioritise relationship; low-context cultures (Germanic, Anglo) prioritise terms.

    For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR B2, in upper-intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study — particularly professionals in sales, procurement, partnerships, or business development. Tested in Cambridge BEC Vantage and BEC Higher. Part of the Work & Money collection — the natural next step is Business English: Presenting Data, which covers the data-and-evidence side of B2 business communication.

  • Business English: Meetings Vocabulary (PDF)

    Business English: Meetings Vocabulary (PDF)

    Business-meetings vocabulary covers the professional-spoken-English context that defines mid-career working life. Agenda, minutes, action items, deadline, chair, attendees, apologies, AOB (any other business), motion, agenda item, follow-up, recap, summarise, briefing, debriefing, breakout, plenary. The functional language sits on top: open the meeting, set the agenda, call on someone, take a vote, table a discussion, summarise the action items. Combined, this is the productive base for participating in or running professional meetings in English.

    This worksheet builds B2 fluency with business-meetings vocabulary in productive professional contexts.

    What’s inside:

    • Vocabulary box with 30+ meeting terms grouped by phase (preparation, agenda, discussion, action items)
    • Meeting-transcript gap-fill targeting key meeting language
    • Role-play scenarios: chair a meeting, take minutes, present an agenda item
    • Multiple-choice items distinguishing similar-meaning terms (postpone / reschedule / put off)
    • Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes with assessment criteria for meeting-skill production

    Common challenges: Postpone, reschedule, cancel, defer, table all describe rearranging — but table is opposite in UK and US English (UK: table a discussion = bring it forward; US: table a discussion = postpone it). Phrasal verbs are dense: bring up (raise), put off (postpone), follow up on (pursue), get back to (respond to later). Register: meetings use polite indirect speech (Could we move on?, I’d like to suggest…) rather than direct commands.

    For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR B2, in upper-intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study — particularly working professionals. Tested in Cambridge B2 First (FCE), BEC Vantage, and BEC Higher. Part of the Work & Money collection — the natural next step is Business English: Email Phrases, which covers the written counterpart of professional communication.

  • Business English: Email Phrases (PDF)

    Business English: Email Phrases (PDF)

    Business email phrases are the formulaic language that lubricates professional correspondence. Openers: I hope this email finds you well, I’m writing to inform / enquire / confirm, As discussed in our meeting last week. Body: Could you please clarify, I would appreciate it if, Just to follow up on, Please find attached, As per your request. Closers: Looking forward to your reply, Please let me know if you have any questions, Best regards, Kind regards, Many thanks. These aren’t optional vocabulary — they are the register-establishing markers that make a professional email read as professional.

    This worksheet builds B1–B2 fluency with formal email phrasing across the full email structure.

    What’s inside:

    • Phrase bank organised by email function (opening, requesting, clarifying, attaching, closing)
    • Email gap-fill: complete professional emails with appropriate formulaic phrases
    • Register-shifting task: rewrite informal emails in professional register
    • Original-writing task: respond to a workplace scenario using appropriate phrases
    • Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes on register and signature conventions

    Common challenges: Register slippage is the central B1–B2 issue — Hey, Cheers, no worries are casual; Dear, Kind regards, Best regards are professional. Greeting-sign-off mismatches sound jarring: Dear Mr Smith / Cheers (wrong). The Dear / Hi / Hello + First Name spectrum maps to relationship distance — first-name informal, Dear Mr X formal, Hi John between. Politeness-stacking: Could you possibly, if you wouldn’t mind, when you have a moment layered together can sound apologetic; one polite marker is usually enough.

    For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR B1 to B2, in intermediate and upper-intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study — particularly working professionals. Tested in Cambridge B1 Preliminary (PET) through C1 Advanced (CAE) Writing and across BEC. Part of the Work & Money collection — the natural next step is Business English: Negotiation Language, which extends email phrasing into the active-bargaining domain.