English at Work

Formal meetings use some specialized language. We also use informal language when we’re talking about work. See if you know some of the words we use for meetings in English.

Do you know what’s going on at meetings? Or do you get lost in the jargon and colloquial expressions?

When it comes to meetings, it’s not all about what happens at the meeting. Some things happen before.

Read the sentences below and choose the correct word from this list to fill the gap.

When you haven’t done something for a while and you’re not as good at it as you used to be are you a bit squeaky, flat or rusty?

When something is difficult and you decide to look at it again from first principles, do you go back to fundamentals, or back to basics?

When you know everything there is to know about a topic, do you know it inside out, or upside down?

This week’s expressions are about changes to companies’ ownership arrangements.

This week we look at three expressions we can use when a business in in trouble.