Help the mediator complete her report about a workplace disagreement. Drag the correct words to complete the sentences.
The two employees had a heated argument about the project deadline. They couldn't settle their argument on their own. Fortunately, after our meeting, they managed to avoid future arguments by establishing clear communication rules.
The two employees had a heated argument about the project deadline.
We "have an argument" when we engage in a disagreement or dispute.
They couldn't settle their argument on their own.
We "settle an argument" when we resolve or end a disagreement.
Fortunately, after our meeting, they managed to avoid future arguments by establishing clear communication rules.
We "avoid arguments" when we prevent disagreements from happening.
Verb
If grammar feels overwhelming, the fix is almost always to focus on verbs first. They carry the action, the time, the mood, and the voice — a single verb form decides whether your sentence reads as past or present, fact or hypothetical, active or passive. Get verbs solid and the rest of grammar suddenly looks much smaller.
A verb expresses action, state, or occurrence — the engine of every English sentence. Most verbs have five forms (base, -s, past tense, past participle, -ing); be has eight; modal verbs have fewer. Verbs carry tense, aspect, mood, and voice.
Phrasal verb
If you've ever read I ran into my old teacher and wondered why anyone would run into a person on purpose, welcome to phrasal verbs. They're idioms hiding in plain sight — short verb-plus-particle combinations whose meanings don't match the words you see. Miss them and English films, news, and casual conversation feel half-translated.
A phrasal verb combines a verb with a particle, a preposition, or both, forming a unit with a non-literal meaning: give up, put up with, come across. They're the single biggest source of native-sounding fluency at intermediate level.
Collocations
If your English vocabulary is large but your speech still sounds slightly off — do a mistake, powerful coffee, high winds blew strongly — you've hit the collocation problem. Each word is correct in isolation, but native speakers don't pair them that way. Fixing it isn't about more vocabulary; it's about learning words in their natural company.
Collocations are word combinations that habitually occur together: make a decision, strong coffee, heavy rain, highly unlikely. The grammar permits other pairings, but fluent English consistently chooses one over the rest. They're the connective tissue of natural-sounding language.
B1 | Intermediate
If you can hold a conversation about your weekend, explain why you're late, and follow a short news story without panicking — but still feel lost in fast or technical English — you're probably operating at B1. Knowing this matters: study material at the wrong level either bores you or burns you out, and B1 is the typical target for travel, casual work, and most everyday social English.
B1 is the intermediate level in the CEFR framework, where you handle everyday English independently and start combining ideas with complex sentences, passive voice, and modal verbs.
Difficulty: Medium
If easy questions feel too obvious but hard questions leave you guessing, you're probably ready for Medium — the level where most real learning happens. It pushes just enough to expose the rules you don't quite have yet, without burying you in edge cases. This is where steady fluency is built, one well-aimed challenge at a time.
The Medium difficulty tag marks middle-range challenges — typically A2 to B1. One rule per question, realistic distractors, and contexts that require active thought rather than instant recognition.