Vocabulary and Expression Builders.

Information Technology Vocabulary
Overhead: The cost of running a business.
The overhead of the company was more than the revenue so it was going bankrupt.
.com: A dot com internet site.
The site is USA dot com or www.usa.com.
Prior: Before.
Prior to working at KPMG, I was at an accounting company.
Start-up: To begin a company.
They have a start-up.
Regulate: To set official rules.
They have to regulate the business.
Surfing: To look through the web.
They went surfing on the internet.
A blog: A personal web page.
The blog talked about the problem.
Issue: (to issue) The subject.
The main issue was the budget. They issued a refund to the client.

A few billion: Several thousand million.
The company raised a few billion dollars.
Impact: To have a strong effect.
Technology had a strong impact on the project.
Predictions: To guess what will occur.
The predictions are that he is going to be the new CEO.
Leisure: Pleasurable activity.
He spends his leisure time playing golf.
Gossip: To talk about others.
He gossips about colleagues.

Speaking English

Sentences (read out loud)
The overhead of the company was significant in the start-up phase.
They had to regulate the surfing activities at the organization.
The employees were spending a lot of time on the blog.
They issued a warning to the staff that was wasting too much time online.
The dot com start-up had a lot of issues to deal with.