Topic: Business Skills
SEE ALL TOPICSSpeaking Class 45 min / 60 min
Changing careers
BusinessWith this speaking lesson, students navigate the territory of career changes. They discuss job market trends, as well as benefits and challenges of transitioning careers. They also talk about important skills and watch a video about a woman who changed careers.
Standard Lesson 60 min
All about branding
BusinessThis is a perfect lesson for students who want to discuss brands and the idea of branding. Students learn and practise useful phrases, as well as improve their comprehension skills.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Passive income
BusinessIn this passive income ESL lesson plan, students watch a video, learn vocabulary and have speaking practice.
Standard Lesson 90 min
Catching up made easy
BusinessIn this lesson about instant messaging, students watch a video, discuss the rules for instant messaging and write short messages to each other.
Standard Lesson 60 min
How to nail that presentation
BusinessIn this lesson about business presentations in English, students discuss presentation structures in depth, watch a video with tips on giving presentations, and learn useful words and phrases related to the topic. The lesson is the first of the three-part series of lessons about delivering presentations.
Standard Lesson 75 min
I’m afraid that’s outside the scope of this meeting
BusinessIn this lesson, students reflect on ways to make a business meeting more productive and practise some useful phrases for business meetings. They also act out typical workplace situations.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Mastering small talk
Business LifestyleIn this lesson students practise their listening skills with an engaging video about making small talk in English, learn several phrasal verbs and sharpen their small talk skills through a series of speaking activities.
Standard Lesson 75 min
How to work with people who get under your skin
BusinessThis lesson plan is based on a video about how to deal with difficult relationships at work and includes two business English role plays.
Flipped Lesson 60 min
Apple’s legendary keynotes
Business LifestyleThe objective of this lesson plan is to teach students some adjectives for describing products and show them a video analysing Apple’s legendary keynotes.
Standard Lesson 30 min
Problem solving with 5 Whys
BusinessIn this worksheet students will learn a very popular problem solving technique called 5 Whys (5W) and practise asking questions.
Standard Lesson 60 min
How to ask for a raise (negotiation phrases)
BusinessBusiness English lesson plan that focuses on teaching negotiation phrases and lets you have 1-to-1 negotiation role plays in your classroom!
Standard Lesson 60 min
Numbers don’t lie – graphs do
BusinessThe aim of the lesson is to teach students vocabulary and structures they can use while describing graphs in English, and how to spot distorted charts.