Lesson Plans & Worksheets: Profession, work or study

Being polite with business guests practice

HR vocabulary and recommendations practice through discussing solutions to typical HR issues.

Starting conversations in different situations cultural training and useful phrases

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.

Small groups of students work together to find typical errors in the most useful negotiating phrases, then try to remember functional language.

Using the most common telephoning phrases in roleplay phone calls.

How to get ready for a job interview on the phone

Updates and experiences controlled speaking and roleplay

Present Perfect Simple and Continuous for business students

Good and bad presenting roleplays and useful phrases

Using more common emailing phrases practice

Using the language of generalisation and advice to talk about reports with useful language for writing such reports, including soft and strong recommendations presentation.

Polite negative responses to inquiries

Comparing and contrasting silent letters and silent syllables in rapid speech, with business vocabulary

Beginning and finishing business and academic presentations phrases review

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

Improving too casual or rude presentation starters speaking game, ranking formal and informal beginning presentation phrases, generalising about formality, and choosing the best phrases for each person.

Easy and then more and more challenging telephoning roleplays

Writing up notes from meetings review

Different phrases for distance and face to face meetings review

Improving rude teleconferencing and video conferencing phrases

How to respond to typica teleconference and video conference phrases

Past, present and future forms and times with business topics

Good and bad beginnings of presentations tips, then brainstorming useful language to do the good things, including greetings, personal introductions, hooks and outlining the presentation.

Emailing phrases which are usually too informal or too formal/ old-fashioned for work emails to make into more common business emailing phrases, including generalising about what makes emails formal/ polite or informal/ friendly.

Explaining why things are good business ideas with how the world is changing - good language of trends and supporting your opinions practice, with lots of useful business vocabulary.

Roleplaying teleconferences and video conferences, and brainstorming suitable language

Business abbreviations and words which are sometimes wrongly abbreviated

Memory game based on a typical business report, helping students to memorise useful phrases for the beginning, body, ending and headings of reports.

Key word transformations answers that don't mean the same thing pairwork speaking.

Quick planning and correct paragraphing for B2 First Writing Part Two emails, including getting and sticking to the right level of formality.

Helping student plan, write, edit and work more on their Cambridge B2 First Writing.

Using comparing language to look at B2 First Writing tasks in detail.

Cambridge C2 Proficiency collaborative speaking task on language learning, also useful for learner training.

Students plan, write, edit and do extra work on their C2 Proficiency Writing Part One and/ or Part Two texts by using the given spaces and instructions - the best way to make homework writing as useful as possible.

Classroom vocabulary and positive and negative imperatives practice through a mix and match card game or foldable storybook.

Putting flashcards around the class games.

Students work together to correct typical mistakes in emailing openings, closings and body paragraphs, including phrases for common emails like requests, enquiries and making arrangements.

Fun practice of different ways of communicating through challenges made up by other people in their group and a dice.

Polite and over-polite phrases for dealing with complaints

How to ask for and give information, including enquiries roleplays

Students put a making and responding to questions conversation in order, memorise it, analyse the language, then take part in similar exchanges.

Students match typical replies to unhappy customers, then try to remember useful phrases for apologising, promising future action, etc.

Students match typical replies to people asking for favours and information, then test each other on useful phrases for polite requests, polite negative responses, etc.

Students play a fun card game, guessing game and/ or personalised speaking game to practise adjectives ending with -ed and -ing for feelings and properties, with useful jobs vocabulary.

Seven different games to practise vocabulary and phrases for describing how things work, especially use for IELTS Academic classes and Technical English students.

Discussing the best way to learn English to practise relative clauses.

Intensive practice of important skills for good performance in the STEP Eiken Level 1 Speaking test, ending with five full practice tests.