Lesson Plans & Worksheets: Profession, work or study

What people do in different jobs silly and sensible matches activities with Present Continuous practice.

Students use modal verbs and similar forms like "have to" to discuss cultural norms in making arrangements, brainstorm language for doing those things, then use modal verbs to suggest arrangements, say no politely, etc.

Fun competitive practice of phone calls and making arrangements, with students trying to make the most new things to their schedules, with future time expressions practice and presentation.

Learner training and practice of conjunctions and other linking phrases through discussion of good advice on studying English outside class, including contrasting similar linking words and expressions.

Collocations in typical meetings and negotiations phrases matching games

Students interview each other with typical small talk questions for new or old contacts - great as a first class, especially in Social English preparation courses.

Fun presentation and practice of phrases for meeting people for the very first time and people you already know with a quick reactions game, followed by trying to remember those phrases and thinking of similar language for smoothly ending those chats.

Practising closed question formation through typical questions for social situations such as yes/ no questions for starting conversations, ending with students trying to remember the questions they just used, plus an optional coin game.

Students roleplay first and later meetings at conferences, classify phrases for meeting for the first time and again, put them in order, then test each other on the phrases and situations.

A comprensive review of language and tactics for effective meeting for the first time and again, including memorising the most useful phrases, looking at typical confusions, and discussing what topics are good and not in particular situations.

Students use and try to memorise typical responses in social situations with people you know and don't know such as how to answer common small talk questions, in four stages.

Prepositions in typical business meeting phrases pairwork guessing game

Students practise both subject questions and a wide range of jobs people do vocabulary by setting each other easy quiz questions, then try to remember how suffixes are used to make job nouns.

Students give mini-presentations on using English, roleplay typical situations where they need to use their English skills, then discuss how to improve their knowledge and abilities outside the classroom.

Describing how things were invented with narrative tenses, with Technical English vocabulary

Stress in compound nouns and vocabulary for describing offices

Discussing the value for different kinds of people for society, with jobs vocabulary practice

Students explain and then roleplay typical realistic situations for them to use English for business and ESP communication, including face to face, on the phone and by email - great for first classes and as a lead-in to needs analysis.

Grammar words in academic essays, papers and reports review, starting with a guessing game.

Easy and fun practice of Present Simple and Continuous through actions to represent jobs, including useful jobs vocabulary and actions at work vocabulary.

Students try to find out what good or bad aspects their partner has on their roleplay card, all written with Present Simple for routines/ habits and general facts.

Students find out about each other and their language study needs with Present Simple questions, good for a first lesson and GTKY.

Asking and answering questions in presentations roleplay cards, including discussion of good and bad ways to do so.

Warmer for presentations skills classes, with useful language for talking about presentations

Deciding and stating the purpose of your presentation review, including bad examples to improve

Using the indefinite articles and definite articles a, an and the to make phrases for the start, body and ending of presentations.

Making a personal connection to the attendees when giving presentations review, to link introducing yourself and hooking the audience.

Correcting typical giving presentations phrases

Preparing to answer likely questions in your presentatio, thinking about how to answer tricky questions, then discussing how to deal with other possible sticky points in presentations.

Being polite in presentation Q&A sessions review, starting with a fun game with rude examples and a competition to make them more formal/ polite.

Collating presentation feedback from teachers and fellow students

Formal and informal phrases for starting and ending business and academic presentations

How to start formal and informal presentations review, including a jigsaw task.

Formal, medium formality and informal presentations review, including phrases for starting, ending and the body of presentations and typical mistakes with grammar and formality to correct

Formal, informal and medium formality Q&A and closing presentations review through a jigsaw activity and brainstorming, then students testing each other on the phrases.

Classifying and using presentations phrases games

Good and bad ways to do personal introductions in presentations.

Good and bad use of imperative in presentations review, covering requests, offers and commands/ orders/ instructions, including typical mistakes with rudeness in presentations.

Discussing and arranging steps to get a presentation ready.

Students discuss good and bad preparing presentations tips, analyse them for useful language of advice, then use similar phrases to give other recommendations.

Short but tricky grammar words in typical phrases for presentations review, including language for starting, ending and the body of presentations, starting with a fun pairwork guessing game.

How to ask and deal with questions in presentations.

Using questions which clearly don't need answers to start presentations and hook audiences review, including judging hook questions which are not rhetorical or don't hook well.

Asking questions to get responses from the audience as a hook at the start of presentations review, including defining good hooks, making suitable examples, and brainstorming phrases for the process of using them.

Grammar words in phrases for business reports pairwork