Lesson Plans & Worksheets: Business English

Vocabulary to make and talk about emails and telephone calls

Prepositions in typical emailing phrases guessing game

Different ways to end typical emailing phrases brainstorming tasks.

Past, present and future forms of verbs in typical emailing phrases review, including useful language for starting emails, the body of emails, and ending emails.

Giving advice on good emailing, with useful emailing phrases

A fun way of reviewing typical emails and the most useful emailing language, moving around the board by how much useful language they can remember.

Comparing the most useful emailing language with correct but rarer forms to help students write typical emails, starting with a fun quick reactions game.

Grammar words in typical emailing phrases guessing game, with articles and particles grammar presentation, and trying to remember the most useful emailing language.

English for the insurance industry emailing practice

First lesson for students in logistics companies and departments, starting with pairwork needs analysis and continuing to roleplays of the most realistic situations for their own jobs.

Phrases for Cambridge B2 First emails, letters and reports

Finance words and phrases and things that are pronounced the same way review, starting with a fun quick responses game.

Students make realistic and unrealistic requests and proposals with suggested trades in the right form of conditional, predict the response, and sees what their partner really says - with first conditional vs second conditional presentation and practice.

30 email, telephone and face to face roleplays

Brands which have become English words review, starting with four fun speaking activities, then with a vocabulary presentation.

The language of advice and reports practice

Small talk on your work practice, including taboo questions and topics to avoid

Human resources vocabulary and language of advice practice

TPR presentation and practice of the language of trends

Personalised practice of the language of trends

Language of trends phrases which are similar and different

Changes in the world of insurance speaking, including insurance industry vocabulary.

Verb + verb practice through job interview questions

Language for talking about changes synonyms and common confusions, especially useful for Financial English students, Business English classes, and IELTS Academic Writing preparation.

Past, present and future review

Great practice of negotiating and English for the insurance industry and financial English more generally, with students using and trying to remember typical insurance vocabulary used in negotiating roleplays.

Choosing between suitable, unsuitable and comically bad negotiating responses, trying to remember the good ones, then analysing them for the best language and tactics.

Talking about how to be more efficient in your work and life, starting with New Year's resolutions.

A fun memory game to help memorise typical phrases for making orders by telephone, including useful language for starting calls, checking/ clarifying, and ending calls.

Discussing performance and progress with verb + verb

English for logistics students describe typical realistic English situations for them then roleplay communicating face to face, on the phone or by email, and reflect on how the interaction went - good for first classes as a kind of needs analysis.

Roleplay progress check meetings for Present Perfect practice, including an optional coin game and a grammar presentation - good for realistic practice of grammar in Business English classes.

Using present tenses questions, statements and related time expressions to describe what you do and what your company does to new contacts review, plus an optional bluffing game.

Present tenses in business emailing and telephoning practice

Present Continuous and Present Simple situations to discuss in meetings, to remember, to analyse for key words such as time expressions, including useful vocabulary for describing changes with the language of trends.

Analysing and using the language of advice to give recommendations on how to solve environmental problems

When to use and not to use the imperative in typical presentations phrases

Easy review of opening and closing emails, phone calls and face to face meetings

Brainstorming and checking what each line of typical phone calls could be

Beginning and finishing meetings phrases presentation and practice

Roleplay meetings on the topic of working from home, good for English for HR classes and functional language for business meetings practice.

Solving communication problems to practise telephoning

Reviewing business communications through common mistakes

Tricky telephoning roleplays for checking/ clarifying practice

Beginning and ending telephone calls phrases presentation and practice

Useful checking/ clarifying questions on financial and business vocabulary, particularly for the insurance industry

TOEIC-listening style practice of basic telephoning language

Vital verbs and phrases for writing reports through a speaking game

Common sentences in business reports presentation and practice through gapped sentences to discuss and complete, with different ways of writing numbers and an optional extension with insurance vocabulary - good for financial English classes.