What is a Lesson Flow?
Lesson Flow is a sequence of lessons, designed to take your student on a particular learning journey. A flow contains around 15-20 lessons covering the four skills as well as vocabulary, grammar and functional language. The additional follow-up lesson suggestions offer extra opportunities for reading and speaking practice, as well as targeted grammar exercises related to the topic. Lesson Flows are compilations of pre-existing ESL Brains lessons, but with a new purpose of helping teachers navigate learning in a more structured way. They serve as guidelines that you can and should customize by adding or removing lessons based on your students’ needs.
What’s inside the B1 Business Lesson Flow?
This Lesson Flow consisting of 19 main lessons is designed for students looking to refine their Business English skills while gaining confidence in professional conversations. It covers key workplace vocabulary, functional language and useful grammar structures through engaging and practical activities.
Developing language skills
With this B1 Business Lesson Flow, your students will work on:
- speaking skills while talking about first impressions, projects and project management, remote work, business challenges, famous entrepreneurs, competition, word-of-mouth marketing, applying for a job, business etiquette, customer service problems; while role-playing a job interview and interactions with customers; while discussing small and large companies, reasons people dislike their jobs, work conditions and employee feedback; while role-playing workplace problems; while talking about mentorship, teamwork dynamics, tips for handling mistakes, miscommunication, prioritising; while working on case studies; while giving office tours; while discussing graphs, document management and going paperless;
- listening skills with a LinkedIn office tour video, a humorous Apple commercial, a series of interviews, animated video biographies, an explainer video on competition, a recruitment interview, a news report on fake job postings, a funny video on poor and excellent customer service, an advice video from ‘Time’, a software advertisement, a video about finding a mentor, a video with tips on building better teams, a recording of people sharing their opinions on mistakes at work, an explainer video on prioritising tasks, a video on website development;
- reading skills with articles about remote work, the pros and cons of starting a business, tips for professional networking, office software; when reading infographics on famous entrepreneurs, the story of Nokia and a text about marketing strategies;
- writing skills while writing self-introductions, interview questions and answers; when drafting a cover letter.
Improving grammar, vocabulary and functional language
The Flow also makes your students learn and practise:
- vocabulary: phrasal verbs related to work, vocabulary for starting and running a business, collocations with the word ‘entrepreneur’, marketing collocations, job interview vocabulary, useful phrases to describe work experience, advice-related expressions, networking vocabulary, teamwork-related language, phrases with ‘make’, office software collocations, document-related collocations, adjectives with ‘-ful’ and ‘-less’;
- grammar: Past Simple, structures with ‘spend time’, ‘waste time’ and ‘take time’, quantifiers, Passive Voice;
- functional language: phrases for office tours, useful self-introduction structures, job interview expressions, phrases for offering help and responding politely, phrases for making and accepting apologies, presentation language, vocabulary for describing trends in data.
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