Lesson Plans & Worksheets: Profession, work or study

Presentation or practice of how to respond to requests and asking for information through predicting the next line of typical dialogues and then brainstorming useful phrases.

Please + verb for offers and commands/ orders/ instructions presentation through contrasts with the language of requests, for and through the topic of the language of meetings, including error correction and sentence completion.

Typical phrases for chatting after weeks or months without seeing someone, and phrases and key words for getting down to business at the end of the small talk.

Present Simple questions for small talk in business situations.

How to start, continue and end conversations at trade shows

People's roles nouns endings and subject questions practice.

Answering questions on the phone review, with advice, useful language and roleplays.

Suitable telephoning and teleconferencing practice for each student in the class through needs analysis and roleplaying the realistic situations that they describe, good for the beginning and end of courses.

Realistic practice of business telephoning for each member of the class through a needs analysis conversation and situations based on their own needs.

Tricky telephoning situations roleplays, for more challenging and therefore interesting telephone phrases practice and useful vocabulary for talking about and during phone calls, including typical telephone phrases with key words.

Talking about future plans, arrangements, predictions and spontaneous intentions on the phone with going to, Present Continuous and will review, including roleplays and model phrases.

Line by line brainstorming of a typical business phone call, including getting through to someone, taking and leaving messages, and checking/ clarifying, with two optional extra practice activities.

Grammar words in typical telephoning phrases review, starting with a pairwork guessing game and continuing with brainstorming.

Correcting typical mistakes with telephoning phrases communicative practice, with optional more basic error correction and brainstorming stages to help remember the correct phrases, including starting calls, the body of calls, and ending conversations.

A fun whole class speaking activity for telephoning and making future arrangements practice in which students race to make as many new arrangements as possible while roleplaying phone calls - good for Present Continuous and future time expressions.

Easy and then trickier and therefore more interesting telephone language practice roleplays, good for mixed classes and telephone phrases review, ending with an optional brainstorming stage and useful phrases to use.

A good first class for Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate level classes, in which students ask each other needs analysis/ gettting to know you questions in present tenses, try to remember those questions, then analyse the grammar.

What happens in real television commercials and what it means to practise Present Progressive and Simple followed by freer practic, good for grammar in Business English classes, especially with students in sales and marketing.

Discussing what a great academic application is and how to write it

Describing your character in university application essays

Getting ready to write an academic application essay

Fun step by step practice of teleconferences and video conferences