Oxinity Business Slang and Jargon Exercises
Oxinity Business Slang and Jargon Exercises sets out two practice tasks on the language of the workplace, written by the teacher Katherine Jane Elkington. The first asks the learner to match ten jargon phrases, among them touch base, leverage, in the pipeline and blue sky thinking, to their definitions. The second gives a table of common abbreviations and a timed gap-fill built from them, and a full answer key closes the page.
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How It Helps Your Business English
Two exercises make up the page. The first is a matching task on ten jargon phrases and their definitions. The second gives a table of ten workplace abbreviations with their meanings, then a short gap-fill story to complete against the clock, followed by a longer table of financial and office abbreviations. The answer key for both exercises is printed at the end.
Do the matching task first without looking down the page, then check yourself against the key at the end. Read the abbreviation tables aloud so that the letters come to you quickly, and give yourself the five minutes the page suggests for the gap-fill, which puts the abbreviations into a connected story rather than a list. Come back to the longer table when an unfamiliar abbreviation turns up at work.
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