Lesson Plans: Functions & Text

Useful clarifying phrases for academic speaking and writing, with academic vocabulary

Classifying and ranking strong and weak academic language

Fixing common mistakes with emails to professors, etc, including language, politeness and formatting.

Guide to writing to professors etc

Softer making quotations phrases practice, including hedging language review.

Attractive personal statements and other academic applications review.

The different stages of planning, writing and editing academic writing like dissertations.

ESL lesson plan on good academic writing, including brainstorming, vocabulary, and tips, starting with a mind map and ending with a related essay.

Guided giving each other feedback on their academic writing practice.

Practising reacting to what people say by communicating about what you have achieved

Card games to practise difficult agreeing and disagreeing phrases

Strong and weak agreeing and disagreeing listening and speaking

Finding suitable apologies for different situations

Asking people to give their opinion phrases review

Group brainstorming practice on the topic of education

BULATS Writing exam practice on recruitment

Typical phrases for electronic and face-to-face communication, with typical mistakes

Guessing the business problem from the advice on it, with collocations with do and make

Suitable formality in emails practice

Correcting formality mistakes in emails

Different ways of asking and answering job interview questions

Meetings in different countries and useful phrases

Overly polite phrases for normal business meetings

Making overly casual meetings phrases more suitable for business

Formal and casual ways to start and end presentations

Thinking of suitable ways to use your body to present

Doing presentations in different ways and with different phrases

Typical typical for writing reports brainstorming and suggested phrases

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

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

Brainstorming useful tactics and phrases for English job interviews, including body language, starting the interview, answering questions, and asking questions at the end.

Useful phrases for facilitating meetings

Dealing with difficult situations in meeting roleplays

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

Language and paragraphing for emailing

Responding to typical functional language jigsaw and speaking

Being polite with business guests practice

Starting conversations in different situations cultural training and useful phrases

How to get ready for a job interview on the phone

Good and bad presenting roleplays and useful phrases

Using more common emailing phrases practice

Polite negative responses to inquiries

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

Easy and then more and more challenging telephoning roleplays

Writing up notes from meetings review

Functional language for teleconferences review

Different phrases for distance and face to face meetings review

Improving rude teleconferencing and video conferencing phrases