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 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 in the B1/B2 HR Lesson Flow?
This Lesson Flow offers 19 main lessons with follow-ups for students who work or are interested in Human Resources. It helps them develop speaking, listening, reading and writing skills while exploring thought-provoking topics and completing practical tasks that strengthen grammar and vocabulary.
Developing language skills
With this B1/B2 HR Lesson Flow, your students will work on:
- speaking skills while talking about: employee surveys and job satisfaction, instant messaging apps, email communication, irritating behaviours at work, what people feel guilty about; when discussing: what’s professional and what isn’t, the value of networking, employment laws, different mindsets, changing careers, a four-day week, time off and sick leave policies, passwords and cybersecurity, offices going paperless, leaders and leadership, child prodigies, culture shock, praising and giving feedback; while giving and responding to bad news; while giving advice to deal with everyday problems; while role-playing: difficult conversations people have at work and networking conversations;
- listening skills with an excerpt from a TV show, a video about messaging etiquette, two comedy skits about emails, a video with advice on working with irritating people, two video blogs about personal experiences, a video with networking tips, a funny ad; with news reports on: a new employment law, vacation guilt and a four-day week; educational videos about: passkeys, document management, fixed and growth mindsets, workplace safety and using AI to analyze data; videos about: introverted leaders, culture shock and attitudes towards praising;
- reading skills with an article about a 14-year-old SpaceX employee and an article about a ban on cigarettes in public places;
- writing skills when writing messages to co-workers and AI prompts.
Improving grammar, vocabulary and functional language
The Flow also makes your students learn and practise:
- vocabulary: phrases to talk about what irritates us, phrasal verbs and idioms related to work experiences, phrases to talk about cybersecurity, phrases ‘be required to’ and ‘be supposed to’, vocabulary related to employment regulations, collocations to talk about different mindsets, vocabulary related to success and achievements, phrases to talk about work-life balance, collocations related to workplace safety, collocations to talk about data;
- grammar: quantifiers, reported speech, suffixes ‘ful’ and ‘less’;
- functional language: giving and responding to bad news, giving advice and making suggestions, praising and congratulating, giving feedback.
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