ESL Lesson Plans for All Levels (Page 3)

Choosing how to make English-style emails, then remembering useful language with which to do so, including tips on starting emails, the body of emails, and ending emails

Articles and prepositions in business communication phrases guessing game, including emailing, telephoning and face to face communications.

Making phrases out of typical words in emails

Different ways of asking and answering job interview questions

Different forms of common words in emails and other business writing, including guessing games.

Making overly casual meetings phrases more suitable for business

Vocabulary for giving and talking about presentations speaking practice

Using your body to reinforce typical presentations phrases review

Typical mistakes with common presentations phrases

Formal and casual ways to start and end presentations

Thinking of suitable ways to use your body to present

A fun game with points for negotiating well, linking to how to prepare a presentation

Prepositions in typical presentation phrases pairwork

Changing the meaning by changing the stress in typical presentations phrases, including the most commonly stressed words.

Typical typical for writing reports brainstorming and suggested phrases

Listening to and classifying typical telephoning phrases game, including typical telephoning confusions.

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

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

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

Step by step making and dealing with enquiries roleplays

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

Changing the meaning of typical negotiating phrases by stressing different words and changing the pitch of the sentence

Using first conditional, second conditional and third conditional to discuss how to solve business issues, using mistakes you made, things that could happen, and theoretical situations.

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

Talking about how finances change over time, with finance compound nouns and other collocations

Students give hints until their partners guess exact numbers from the world of finance, then work together to pronounce numbers correcty - with useful financial English collocations.

Question formation presentation with needs analysis

Official and everyday HR words and phrases

How to make requests more polite/ formal practice

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.

HR vocabulary synonyms and common confusions game

Different tenses in emails and other business writing practised with key words.

More complex and effective negotiating phrases practice through a jigsaw activity and other card games, including two brainstorming stages.

Using and remembering making proposals phrases for negotiating practice, including a fun responses card game.

Starting conversations in different situations cultural training and useful phrases

Describing companies when you meet someone lying game, with useful phrases, key words and names of famous companies to talk about.

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.

A fun negotiating pairwork speaking game with a winner, including useful discussion of how to prepare for external negotiations, and an optional extension into talking about how to prepare for other things.

Students work their way around a fun board game by using useful functional language for internal and external negotiations, then brainstorm what typical phrases they could have used.

Fun TPR practice of typical functional language for negotiations, including actions to accompany phrases for starting negotiations, responding in negotiations, and ending negotiations.