Lesson Plans & Worksheets: Business English

Embedded questions in BULATS Speaking

Students ask each other about how and why they need English, do pairwork practice of those kinds of realistic communciations, then brainstorm useful language for typical emails, phone calls and face to face communication.

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

Memory game/ roleplay for past tenses practice, like a business version of the alibi game

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

Roleplay business meetings to practise adjectives with -er and more, with grammar presentation.

Meetings in different countries and useful phrases

Using voice and body in presentations roleplays and discussion

Typical typical for writing reports brainstorming and suggested phrases

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

Personal questions with business vocabulary speaking game where you have to answer your own questions if you are unlucky with the flip of a coin, with word formation practice.

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

Practising imperative and linking words for giving reasons by discussing sending Xmas cards to business contacts

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.

Pairwork needs analysis, and discussing and practising top priorities.

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

Question formation presentation with needs analysis

Official and everyday HR words and phrases

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.

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

Vocabulary and grammar practice by discussing difficult business choices, mostly with second conditional and sometimes with first conditional, including similar but different moral issues words.

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.

Positive, negative and ambiguous responses in negotiations review, with a simplest responses games, brainstorming with key words, and using key words in negotiating roleplays.

Students split and sort out cut up and mixed up formal and casual negotiations, analyse the language in them, test each other on the phrases, then roleplay internal and external negotiations with people they know and don't know.

Positive and negative connotations in business vocabulary storytelling speaking.

Business meetings topics in Present Perfect and Past Simple tenses to discuss, with a grammar gapfill task.

Good presentations tips and language

Discussing solutions to company issues with "too..." and with "not enough", rephrasing sentences with those expressions, then freer problems and solutions speaking.

Using reporting verbs in polite business communication

Reported speech to report on meetings

How many countable things and how much of uncountable things to put in a new office roleplay discussion, with quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns presentation.

Students memorise and practise the most useful phrases for beginning and ending negotiations, starting with a fun quick responses listening game, then using key words to remember each phrase.

Functional language for teleconferences review

How and what to email after business emails

Negotiating with people inside your company and outside your company free speaking, including suggested topics and people to negotiate with (suppliers, your boss, etc).

Writing reports practice, including a big list of typical topics

Speaking with vocabulary from IELTS exam listening and reading texts on business and economics

Meetings on HR roleplays board game

Different kinds of customer and kinds of insurance speaking

Describing presentation slides phrases presentation and practice

Outsourcing and insourcing business discussion

Grammar of email and phone phrases games

Typical mistakes with different kinds of emailing phrases plus extra ideas.