Business English Lesson Plans & Activities
This activity is based on an exercise in a book for job seekers to help them identify rewarding career paths. Make a list of character traits such as these: reliable hard working creative flexible ready to travel good communicator eager Continue reading What job should I do?
Use this describing graphs worksheet to introduce talking about changes using the present perfect. Describing graphs
This is a fun way to review the first and second conditionals, this activity obviously works best if you edit the materials in the worksheet to be more applicable to your clients’ own situations. Step 1. Introduce the idea of Continue reading Suggestion box – first and second conditionals
This is a simple game for practising phrasal verbs. Think of six phrasal verbs that you want to practise. On the board write the six different verbs and six different prepositions in two numbered lists. You will also need to think Continue reading Phrasal verb dice game
Telephone English is generally uncomplicated and straightforward, there’s a limited set of specific language which needs to be covered, the exception being conference calls which have their own set of challenges. This activity is designed to give students some very general Continue reading Simple telephone roleplays
Give pairs of students a copy of the venn diagram. Ask them to sort the collocations below the diagram into the two areas stated in the circles. If the collocation seems to fit in both areas then they should write Continue reading Business collocations
Business idioms are part of daily working life. These worksheets allow your learners to see a number of business related idioms in context. First, they should use their prior knowledge and educated guesswork to complete the idioms. Then see if Continue reading Mixed up business idioms
This is a conversational lesson plan I put together for an online advertising company. Students discuss data privacy and practice writing data mining questions before being given the opportunity to make conditional sentences. Activity sheets PDF / ODT/ Docx
A lesson plan to introduce the idea of using euphemistic speech in a professional environment. Teacher’s notes and activity sheets PDF / ODT / Docx Teachers notes Step 1. Introduce the idea of euphemistic speech. English speakers often use euphemistic speech when talking about Continue reading Euphemisms lesson plan
This lesson takes the theme of gossip to explore the grammar of reported speech. This plan doesn’t include a formal explanation of the grammar of reported speech so how you approach this is up to you. This book comes highly Continue reading Gossip – reported speech lesson plan