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General English vocab trainer

• Talking about people
  • Introducing yourself
  • Your profession
  • Your family
  • Daily routine
  • Languages
  • Hobbies and interests
  • Human qualities – positive
  • Human qualities – negative
  • Moods and feelings
• Talking about places
  • Towns and cities
  • The countryside
  • On a farm
  • At the seaside
  • At university
  • Tourist attractions
  • Well-known places in London
• The environment
  • Environmental damage
  • The weather
• At home
  • Types of residential property
  • Rooms in a residential property
  • An entrance hall
  • A living room
  • A kitchen and dining room
  • A bedroom
  • A bathroom
  • Workshop tools
  • Outside space
  • Ownership and moving home
• Making plans
  • Telling the time
  • The calendar
• Travel
  • Directions
  • Staying in a hotel
• Transport
  • Roads
  • Travelling by car
  • Parts of a car – external
  • Parts of a car – internal
  • Parts of a car – the engine
  • Travelling by bicycle
  • Parts of a bicycle
  • Travelling by train and underground
  • Travelling by bus and coach
  • Travelling by air
  • Travelling by sea
• Sport
  • Types of sport
• Music
  • Musical instruments
• Media
  • Television
  • Newspapers
• Government
  • The UK government
• Technology
  • The internet
  • A computer
• Space
  • The universe
  • Astronomy
  • Space exploration
• Shopping
  • Types of shop
  • Making a purchase
• Dining
  • Going to a restaurant
  • At a coffee shop
• Describing things
  • Colours and patterns
  • Size
  • Materials
• Numbers
  • Whole numbers up to 1000
  • Whole numbers greater than 1000
  • Fractions
  • Simple maths

Business English vocab trainer

• Business communication
  • Meetings
  • Presentations
  • Presentation technology
  • Emails – structure of an email
  • Emails – sending and receiving an email
  • Business report writing
  • Telephone calls
  • Conference calls
  • Discussing an issue
  • Giving your opinion
  • Reaching a conclusion
• Business life
  • Business culture – positive aspects
  • Business culture – negative aspects
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Time management
  • Project timescales
  • Confidentiality
  • Leadership
  • Networking
  • The industry you work in
  • The business function you work in
  • Office equipment
• Business risk
  • Business risk
• Financial results
  • Types of result
  • Variances
  • Causes of variances
  • Trends
• Finance processes and tools
  • Investment approval
  • Ensuring the numbers add up
• Business structure and funding
  • Corporate structure
  • Equity and other
  • A stock exchange
  • Debt
• Mergers and acquisitions
  • Parties to a transaction
  • Types of transaction
  • M&A process
  • Deal negotiation
  • Due diligence
  • Deal execution
• Strategy
  • Strategy
• Negotiations
  • Negotiations – context
  • Negotiations – process
• Human resources
  • Organisational structure
  • Motivation for working
  • Career stages
  • Work patterns
  • Recruitment
  • Job interviews
• Sales
  • Making a sale

Idiom trainer

• Idioms
  • Buildings & structures
  • Machinery & related 1
  • Machinery & related 2
  • Water, boats & weather
  • People
  • Movements & actions 1
  • Movements & actions 2
  • Food / cooking / eating
  • Sport
  • The countryside
  • Animals 1
  • Animals 2
  • Other 1
  • Other 2

Beginner

• Past simple
• Past continuous
• Present simple
• Present continuous (present)
• Present perfect
• 'Going to' and 'will'
• Present continuous (future)
• Imperatives
• To be
• Pronouns: subject, object
• Pronouns: relative
• Adjectives and pronouns: possessive
• Adjectives and pronouns: demonstrative
• Basic adjective word order
• WH questions (interrogative pronouns)
• Articles: a, an, the
• Prepositions: time and place
• There is/ there are and quantifiers
• Conjunctions and, or, but
• Comparatives / superlatives (than)
• Zero conditional (if)
• First conditional (if)
• Modals: can/can't, could, will, shall
• Verb patterns
• Sequence adverbs

Intermediate

• Past perfect
• Past simple vs. present perfect
• Past simple vs. past continuous
• Present perfect continuous
• Future simple
• Future continuous
• Passive
• Indirect speech
• Used to/would
• Second conditional
• Third conditional
• Relative clauses
• Reflexive pronouns
• Modals: must, have to, should, should have
• Verb patterns: gerund or infinitive
• Adverbs of degree
• Adjective order
• Adjectives: ed or ing

Advanced

• Past perfect continuous
• Future perfect
• Future perfect continuous
• Passive
• Mixed conditionals
• Wish/if only
• Inversion
• Modals: can't have/ must have / might have

Negotiations

• English for negotiations Subscription content

Human resources

• English for job interviews Subscription content
• English for recruitment Subscription content

Strategy

• English for corporate strategy Subscription content

Language in use

• Common mistakes made by speakers of English as a first language Subscription content

Mergers and acquisitions

• English for mergers and acquisitions Subscription content

Finance

• Discussing financial results Subscription content
• Describing financial trends Subscription content

Business communication

• English for conference calls Subscription content
• English for telephone calls
• English for meetings
• English for emails
• English for presentations
• English for business report writing Subscription content

General English

• Giving directions
• A cycling holiday
• Hotel check-in Subscription content
• A faulty product Subscription content
• Ordering at a coffee shop Subscription content
• Buying a train ticket Subscription content
• My time at university Subscription content
• Roadside assistance
• At the post office Subscription content
• Reporting a theft Subscription content
• At the bank Subscription content
• Connecting to the internet Subscription content
• A ticket check Subscription content

Business English