This is Book 2 of Professional English Practice, calibrated to B1-B2: the level where English stops being something you study and becomes something you work in. Every unit is built for the person who already gets by and keeps hitting the same wall: the report that comes back reworded, the meeting where the point lands softer than you meant it, the email that was correct and still read as blunt.

Forty units carry you from the verb system through modality, the passive, reporting, focus and emphasis, ending with the prepositions and the collocation that separate correct English from native English. Each one stands on its own, so you can work the book start to finish or open directly to the thing in front of you this week.

Every scene in it is a workplace scene. Not a train station, not a holiday, not a shopping list: an audit that is late, a vendor that pulled out, a launch that went half well, a colleague you have to disagree with on Thursday and still work beside on Friday.

Every unit follows the same four-part cycle, so the shape never surprises you.

Access. A short workplace conversation with the target grammar already in it, in blue. You are noticing the pattern, not producing it. Every line has audio. Tap any line to hear it on its own, or play the whole conversation from the button underneath. Then three questions, and they are built so that reading the words without reading the grammar gets them wrong.

Analysis. One question the unit turns on, the form laid out as a paradigm you can copy, then the explanation, the cards, and the mistakes worth naming. One figure, because an idea you can see has a shape and not just a rule.

Activation. Six exercises moving from mechanical accuracy to your own sentences, ending with a paired speaking task and a piece of writing that is yours. The key is inside each exercise: press Check and the right form appears beside anything you missed.

Review. After every eight units there is a review page. Forty-eight expressions from that block, each one cut out of a sentence this book already wrote, for you to put back.

Two ways through it. Start to finish, or unit by unit using the search below. Do not skip the last exercise. The pair work and the personal writing are where the grammar stops being a rule you know and becomes a sentence you actually say.

I wrote this book for the level I see people get stuck at longest.

B1 and B2 is where the plateau lives. You can read the spec, you can follow the call, you can make yourself understood in almost any meeting, and then you spend a year not getting much better, because nothing is obviously broken. Nobody corrects you. The sentences work. What does not work is smaller and costs more: the concession that sounds like an excuse, the request that reads as an order, the update where nobody can tell what is finished, the news you soften so much that the other person misses it.

None of that is vocabulary. It is grammar doing social work: the passive that reports a status without naming a person, the cleft that puts one fact in the light, the past form that turns a refusal into something a colleague can accept. Those are not decorations on top of the language. They are the tools a fluent speaker reaches for without noticing, in the ordinary Tuesday when it matters.

So that is what this book is: not English for its own sake, but the English of the week you are actually having. Every scene in it could happen at your job before Friday.

Mind your future. It is closer than you think, and it is going to need you to say the right thing at the right time.