Lesson Plans & Worksheets: Profession, work or study

Brainstorming typical questions to use with business contacts, including meeting for the first time and again

Present Simple and Continuous business grammar practice and cultural training

How to interview on the telephone for a job, with useful phrases

Present Perfect for experiences questions in job interviews lying game, with past participles presentation and names of jobs

How to fix an appointment to have a job interview on the phone, with useful language

Useful phrases for facilitating meetings

Dealing with difficult situations in meeting roleplays

Good and bad answers to typical job interview questions, including generalising good tactics and looking at different ways that those questions are often asked.

Discussing the best ways to use marketing methods, then trying to remember words that go together like marketing compound nouns

Using -est/ most and -er/ more to say how good products are speaking challenge, including suggested products to describe

Ways of doing business in different countries review, with useful phrases

Easy and more challenging responding to complaints roleplays, including dealing with complaints by email and on the phone

Step by step making and dealing with enquiries roleplays

Firms in different countries cultural knowledge and describing companies

Present Simple and Present Continuous to describe the present activities of businesses, including typical time expressions with different present tenses

Talking about your work and who you work for extended speaking activities, including typical questions about your company and job

Language and paragraphing for emailing

Making rude ending presentations phrases more and more formal speaking game, including ranking phrases and generalising about formality.

How to make requests more polite/ formal practice

Responding to typical functional language jigsaw and speaking

How to use and not to use your body in business communications such as meeting people, such as good and bad handshakes.

Being polite with business guests practice

HR vocabulary and recommendations practice through discussing solutions to typical HR issues.

Starting conversations in different situations cultural training and useful phrases

Moving along a board based on your performance in typical meeting and spending time with people situations, ranked by their partners.

Guessing the next line of the meeting people for the first time dialogues games, including useful phrases and meeting people who you've had other contact with practice.

Smoothly moving from topic to topic in meetings review, including speaking games.

Small groups of students work together to find typical errors in the most useful negotiating phrases, then try to remember functional language.

Using the most common telephoning phrases in roleplay phone calls.

How to get ready for a job interview on the phone

Using sounds and actions to present and practise Present Progressive for business students

Updates and experiences controlled speaking and roleplay

Present Perfect Simple and Continuous for business students

Practising present tenses by guessing common business English verbs

Good and bad presenting roleplays and useful phrases

Using more common emailing phrases practice

Using the language of generalisation and advice to talk about reports with useful language for writing such reports, including soft and strong recommendations presentation.

Polite negative responses to inquiries

Comparing and contrasting silent letters and silent syllables in rapid speech, with business vocabulary

Past Simple for business classes pronunciation and speaking

Beginning and finishing business and academic presentations phrases review

Beginning to speak to people in business situations practice and useful phrases

Improving too casual or rude presentation starters speaking game, ranking formal and informal beginning presentation phrases, generalising about formality, and choosing the best phrases for each person.

Easy and then more and more challenging telephoning roleplays

Writing up notes from meetings review

Different phrases for distance and face to face meetings review