Lesson Plans & Worksheets: Profession, work or study

Improving rude teleconferencing and video conferencing phrases

How to respond to typica teleconference and video conference phrases

Past, present and future forms and times with business topics

Good and bad beginnings of presentations tips, then brainstorming useful language to do the good things, including greetings, personal introductions, hooks and outlining the presentation.

Emailing phrases which are usually too informal or too formal/ old-fashioned for work emails to make into more common business emailing phrases, including generalising about what makes emails formal/ polite or informal/ friendly.

Explaining why things are good business ideas with how the world is changing - good language of trends and supporting your opinions practice, with lots of useful business vocabulary.

Roleplaying teleconferences and video conferences, and brainstorming suitable language

Business abbreviations and words which are sometimes wrongly abbreviated

Memory game based on a typical business report, helping students to memorise useful phrases for the beginning, body, ending and headings of reports.

Key word transformations answers that don't mean the same thing pairwork speaking.

Quick planning and correct paragraphing for B2 First Writing Part Two emails, including getting and sticking to the right level of formality.

Helping student plan, write, edit and work more on their Cambridge B2 First Writing.

Using comparing language to look at B2 First Writing tasks in detail.

Cambridge C2 Proficiency collaborative speaking task on language learning, also useful for learner training.

Students plan, write, edit and do extra work on their C2 Proficiency Writing Part One and/ or Part Two texts by using the given spaces and instructions - the best way to make homework writing as useful as possible.

Classroom vocabulary and positive and negative imperatives practice through a mix and match card game or foldable storybook.

Putting flashcards around the class games.

Students work together to correct typical mistakes in emailing openings, closings and body paragraphs, including phrases for common emails like requests, enquiries and making arrangements.

Polite and over-polite phrases for dealing with complaints

How to ask for and give information, including enquiries roleplays

Students put a making and responding to questions conversation in order, memorise it, analyse the language, then take part in similar exchanges.

Students match typical replies to unhappy customers, then try to remember useful phrases for apologising, promising future action, etc.

Students match typical replies to people asking for favours and information, then test each other on useful phrases for polite requests, polite negative responses, etc.

Students play a fun card game, guessing game and/ or personalised speaking game to practise adjectives ending with -ed and -ing for feelings and properties, with useful jobs vocabulary.

Seven different games to practise vocabulary and phrases for describing how things work, especially use for IELTS Academic classes and Technical English students.

Discussing the best way to learn English to practise relative clauses.

Intensive practice of important skills for good performance in the STEP Eiken Level 1 Speaking test, ending with five full practice tests.

The most common STEP Eiken Level 1 Speaking subjects and question stems practice with a fun choosing random numbers game.

Formal and informal making and responding to requests and enquiries model emails memorisation game, ending with brainstorming useful phrases for the beginning, middle and end.

Lots of formal and casual language for the body of different kinds of emails, starting with a coin game, then continuing with brainstorming and matching useful phrases.

More and more polite emailing phrases game, with an optional brainstorming stage and key words for making emails more formal.

A fun matching starting and finishing emails phrases by meaning/ use and formality jigsaw activity, followed by students trying to remember key phrases.

Common problems with splitting emails into paragraphs reviews, including making rules of good email paragraphing and covering email openings, closings and body paragraphs.

Stimulating work on avoiding typical confusions in emails by classifying common emailing phrases by shared meaning and different formality or different meaning, then trying to remember the similarities and differences.

How to end different kinds of emails review, including typical closing lines for the most common kinds of emails and levels of formality.

Students make casual or rude emailing phrases more and more polite in a speaking game, then rank suitable phrases for the start, body and ending of emails dealing with difficult situations such as unhappy customers.

Typical email sentence starters and the most common ways of ending them review, including the most important phrases for starting, ending and the body of emails.

Planning emails review covering how to split common email types into paragraphs, including email enquiries, applications, requests, fixing arrangements and self-introductions.

Students fill gaps in a typical model pen friend email as part of a guessing game, also good for countries and nationalities vocabulary practice, and describing cultural differences.

Imperative in emails review, including the typical mistake of using please + verb when requests language like "Could...?" would be more suitable.

Confusing academic language and synonyms

Working out what you can realisitically guess before Cambridge First Listening tasks game, including aspects of what should go in the gap like part of speech and kind of noun.

A review of everything in Cambridge First Listening, including descriptions of what students have to do in each part, starting with students analysing the paper themselves.

Tying together Cambridge First Speaking and Writing with Writing tasks on typical Speaking Part One subjects that students first discuss then plan.

Good and bad Cambridge First essays tips to choose from, then trying to remember useful phrases to go with the good tips, including important topics like starting and ending Writing Part One tasks.

Students try to think of the most useful phrases for Cambridge First essays, then use key words to help and to make the language memorable, including typical language for important things like supporting opinions and opening.