Vocabulary test

Drag & drop: Fill in the missing expression. Use the following words and phrases:
  • a contractor
  • background
  • founder
  • resign
  • to lay off
  • boss
  • salary
  • to fire
  • promotion
  • temporary
  1. You have two choices, Smithers, you can  today, or I can fire you tomorrow.
  2. Please understand that this position is only , and that you will have to find something else in six months.
  3. I don't know anything about this candidate's  – for example, where did he go to school? What was his first job?
  4. Is Jack Daniels really the  of that company, or is he just a fictional character?
  5. The starting  is only five thousand a month, but that will increase to seven thousand after you have completed your trial period.
  6. Sometimes, all I do is make coffee and run errands for my . I thought I was supposed to be an "executive secretary", not a waitress!
  7. We try to do most of our accounting in-house, but occasionally we use  when we have too much of our own work to do.
  8. If the government closes down that chemical plant, they will have  over two thousand employees. That won't be popular with the press.
  9. I've never had  anyone in my life, but you will be the first if you don't start working harder.
  10. In most companies, it is standard to receive a raise or a , or both, every twelve to eighteen months.