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Everyday Phrasal Verbs in
Real Work Conversations

Want to sound more natural at work? This B2/C1 practice comes with audio recordings and covers four common phrasal verbs people use in real situations: fixing a problem, owning a mistake, dealing with a last-minute change, and doing a quick final check before you send something.

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Fixing Misunderstandings
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This worksheet is for real moments at work when someone has the wrong detail and you need to correct it fast. You’ll practice what to say when the day, deadline, place, or numbers are wrong.

Decision-Making Language Professionals Use at Work

Practice how professionals talk through decisions at work, using adjectives like reasonable, shaky, steep, delicate, premature, delicate, rough and tough in real workplace situations.

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-ed and -ing Adjectives for Workplace Communication

This PDF is a fill-in-the-blanks exercise with -ed and -ing adjectives commonly used in professional English. You complete short, clear sentences by choosing the form that fits naturally. The goal is to build a better feel for how these adjectives are used in real professional language.

Common Business English Idioms for Negotiations

This worksheet helps you practice common Business English idioms you’ll hear in real negotiations and workplace conversations. You’ll work with short, realistic situations and choose the idiom that fits naturally. It’s a simple, focused way to check your understanding and get more comfortable using expressions such as meet halfway, play hardball, and hit a snag in context.

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6 Must-Know Business English Phrasal Verbs

In this PDF, you work with phrasal verbs people really use at work — follow up, go over, bring up, get back, run by, and fall apart. You read short, realistic situations and decide which verb fits naturally, just like you would in a meeting or a work email. It’s not about memorizing meanings. It’s about noticing what sounds right in real professional communication and getting more comfortable using these phrases yourself.

7 Essential Business English Idioms

​Improve your Business English with this practical worksheet focused on common phrasal verbs with run. Learn how to talk about problems, delays, costs, and quick decisions using natural expressions like run into, run out of, run over, run up, and run by. Includes a short quiz and answer key to help you practice with confidence.

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10 Common “Out Of” Phrases You’ll Hear in Everyday Business English

This PDF gives you simple meanings and clear examples for useful expressions like out of stock, out of time, out of the loop, and out of control — plus a short practice task to help you understand how native speakers use them in real workplace conversations.

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Phrasal Verbs with "Run"

​Improve your Business English with this practical worksheet focused on common phrasal verbs with run. Learn how to talk about problems, delays, costs, and quick decisions using natural expressions like run into, run out of, run over, run up, and run by. Includes a short quiz and answer key to help you practice with confidence.

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20 Essential Business English Adjectives You Need to Know

Build your Business English with 20 key adjectives you’ll hear in real meetings. This worksheet covers useful words like tentative, feasible, reliable, scalable, and substantial — with easy meanings and natural examples to help you sound more confident at work.

15 Phrasal Verbs to Improve Your Business English

Improve your Business English with this practical worksheet designed to help you use phrasal verbs naturally in real office situations. Learn how to talk about timelines, problem-solving, productivity, and project updates using common expressions like push back, ramp up, look into, and level up. Includes a short quiz and answer key to help you practice with confidence.

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15 Essential Business English Idioms You Need to Know

Improve your Business English with 15 must-know idioms you’ll hear in real meetings. This worksheet covers expressions such as raise the bar, get cold feet, cut to the chase, cut corners, pull your weight, go the extra mile, throw a curveball, hit a snag, roll with the punches, and others used daily at work.

Business English Expressions for Problems at Work

Improve your Business English with this practical worksheet focused on workplace challenges. Learn how to describe real problems like being short-staffed, falling behind schedule, or hitting a snag. Includes a short quiz and answer key to help you practice naturally.

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Common Workplace Collocations with Adjectives

Strengthen your Business English with this practical worksheet on useful workplace collocations like minor issue, modest increase, significant shift, full capacity, major delay, and more. This B2-level resource includes fill-in-the-blank exercises, clear real-life examples, and an answer key to help you use these common adjective–noun combinations naturally at work.

Business English Vocabulary: Commonly Confused Business Verbs

Learn the difference between commonly confused Business English verbs like assign, resign, align, reassign, sign, and consign. This lesson includes clear examples, a mini quiz, and a free PDF worksheet to help you understand how to use these similar-looking verbs correctly in real workplace situations.

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Essential Business English Phrasal Verbs for Work

Learn essential Business English phrasal verbs for real work situations. This free PDF worksheet (B1/B2 level) helps you practice high-frequency workplace English verbs like show up, set up, kick off, push back, look into, turn in, map out, lay off, carry out, and wrap up — so you can sound clear, professional, and confident in meetings, emails, deadlines, and everyday team communication. 

14 Essential Business English Idioms for the Workplace

Learn essential Business English idioms for everyday work situations. This free PDF worksheet includes useful expressions like hit a nerve, move the goalposts, face the music, throw someone under the bus, and in hot water — perfect for sounding natural, confident, and professional in meetings, emails, and workplace conversations.

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Business English Phrasal Verbs for Pressure and Persuasion

Learn how to use common expressions like give in, cave in, push for, back down, and come around in real workplace situations. The worksheet includes a fill-in-the-blank quiz and a complete answer key to help you master phrasal verbs used in meetings, negotiations, and everyday professional communication.

Business English Phrases for Problems and Difficult Situations

Learn practical Business English phrases for talking about workplace problems clearly and professionally. This PDF explains expressions like setback, drop the ball, be under pressure, face a challenge, and work out a solution — essential for improving communication and confidence at work.

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Essential Business English Vocabulary for Work 

Learn contemporary Business English nouns professionals use every day — backlog, inventory, bottleneck, turnaround, and more. This downloadable PDF explains each term with simple definitions and real workplace examples to help you communicate clearly and sound confident in meetings and emails.

Business English Phrasal Verbs for Mistakes

​Learn how professionals talk about errors and responsibility at work. This free PDF explains key phrasal verbs like mess up, slip up, own up to, cover up, make up for, and beat yourself up — all commonly used by native speakers to describe and fix mistakes in real workplace situations.

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