Lesson Plans & Worksheets: Profession, work or study

Deriving both count nouns and non-count nouns from the same academic words

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

Using adverbs of frequency to describe how companies, industries, countries, etc are different from one another.

Using adverbs of frequency to describe what people do games.

Discussing language learning problems with adverbs describing how you do things.

Differences between UK and US English in EAP

Short forms in business review.

Common mistakes in emailing, telephoning, meetings, etc pairwork speaking.

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.

Suitable formality in emails practice

Correcting formality mistakes in emails

Making phrases out of typical words in emails

Different ways of asking and answering job interview questions

Overly polite phrases for normal business meetings

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

Practising articles and other determiners in typical presentation 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

Doing presentations in different ways and with different phrases

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

Brainstorming typical questions to use with business contacts, including meeting for the first time and again

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

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

Using -est/ most and -er/ more to say how good products are speaking challenge, including suggested products to describe

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

Firms in different countries cultural knowledge and describing companies

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

Language and paragraphing for emailing

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

How to make requests more polite/ formal practice

Responding to typical functional language jigsaw and speaking

How to use and not to use your body in business communications such as meeting people, such as good and bad handshakes.