Idioms in Professional English — Synergising the Paradigm Shift
Grammar: Idioms
Free ESL grammar exercise on idioms in professional english themed around synergising the paradigm shift. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 6 (proficiency) ESL grammar exercise on work, practising idioms. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
Every quarter brings a fresh harvest of acronyms. Stacked together in a single sentence, they produce a kind of fog that signals busyness without conveying thought. Corporate jargon is not designed to inform — it is designed to signal membership of a tribe, to perform competence, and to make inaction sound like strategy.
Grammar: Idioms
- What is an idiom?
- An idiom is a fixed phrase whose meaning cannot be guessed from individual words. To move the needle means to make progress — not to touch anything physically.
- Corporate idioms — use
- Common in meetings and emails: let's touch base, circle back on this, drill down into the data. They signal professionalism but can obscure meaning.
Sample items
- The sales director asked everyone to ______ on the Q4 numbers before the investor call.
- After the meeting, Maria said she would ______ with the client team to confirm the timeline.
- The new campaign finally started to ______ after the agency revised the targeting strategy.
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