Level: B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 75 min
![Loading Loading](https://eslbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-favorite-posts/img/loading.gif)
Moving through your presentation
BusinessWith this lesson plan, students learn plenty of useful phrases for presentations in English. They also prepare presentation excerpts, and learn how to start a presentation. The lesson is the second of the three-part series of lessons about delivering presentations.
Standard Lesson 60 min
![Loading Loading](https://eslbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-favorite-posts/img/loading.gif)
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.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
![Loading Loading](https://eslbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-favorite-posts/img/loading.gif)
The gig economy: good or bad for workers?
BusinessThis lesson plan gives students the opportunity to learn and practise words related to freelance work and discuss pros and cons of the gig economy.
Standard Lesson 45 min
![Loading Loading](https://eslbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-favorite-posts/img/loading.gif)
Can you figure it out? ESL vocabulary puzzles
BusinessThis is a set of ESL vocabulary puzzles rather than a typical ESL Brains lesson plan. Each of the puzzles can be used separately as a time filler, a warm-up, etc.
Standard Lesson 75 min
![Loading Loading](https://eslbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-favorite-posts/img/loading.gif)
The right to rest and other employment laws
BusinessIn this lesson students learn vocabulary related to the topic of employment law, watch a video about a new law passed in Portugal and share their views on employment regulations around the world.
Standard Lesson 75 min
![Loading Loading](https://eslbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-favorite-posts/img/loading.gif)
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
![Loading Loading](https://eslbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-favorite-posts/img/loading.gif)
The circular economy
BusinessIn this lesson, students discover pros and cons of the linear and circular economy and learn some new vocabulary and collocations related to the topic. They also work on a case study and come up with strategies to transform a company following a linear model into a more circular one.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
![Loading Loading](https://eslbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-favorite-posts/img/loading.gif)
Is it ‘OK not to be OK’ when you’re an athlete?
Business LifestyleIn this lesson students learn words and expressions related to mental health while talking about mental health issues suffered by athletes. They also discuss ways to promote mental health by public institutions.
Flipped Lesson 45 min
![Loading Loading](https://eslbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-favorite-posts/img/loading.gif)
A whole new universe
Grammar TechnologyIn this lesson about Facebook’s metaverse, students learn and practise intensifiers while discussing positive and negative aspects of metaverse environments.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
![Loading Loading](https://eslbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-favorite-posts/img/loading.gif)
How tiny tasks become monsters
Business LifestyleIn this lesson students learn and put into practice dependent prepositions (in phrasal verbs and other expressions) while discussing reasons and ways of dealing with the common problem of procrastination.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
![Loading Loading](https://eslbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-favorite-posts/img/loading.gif)
How to do an online job interview right
BusinessWith this lesson plan students learn and practise some useful phrases related to doing an online job interview while discussing ten tips on how to do it successfully.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
![Loading Loading](https://eslbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-favorite-posts/img/loading.gif)
Why do we glamourise overwork more than ever
BusinessThis lesson plan about overwork is based on an article and gives students the opportunity to learn work-related language, while reflecting on the cult of overwork.
Standard Lesson 60 min
![Loading Loading](https://eslbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-favorite-posts/img/loading.gif)
Would you like to work a four-day week? (listening for details)
BusinessIn this lesson students will watch a video on a four-day work week, improve their listening for details skills and and reflect on the positive and negative aspects of working four days a week.
Standard Lesson 60 min
![Loading Loading](https://eslbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-favorite-posts/img/loading.gif)
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
![Loading Loading](https://eslbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-favorite-posts/img/loading.gif)
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.
Standard Lesson 45 min
![Loading Loading](https://eslbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-favorite-posts/img/loading.gif)
Do we need each other? (synonyms of the word important)
Global Issues TechnologyIn this lesson students engage in a discussion about human relationships. They discover synonyms of the word important, watch a video and reflect on the future of face-to-face interaction.
Standard Lesson 45 min
![Loading Loading](https://eslbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-favorite-posts/img/loading.gif)
The next big thing after smartphones
TechnologyWith this lesson plan, students will watch an interesting video about microchipping, learn vocabulary for expressing advantages and disadvantages and discuss the technology that might replace smartphones.
Flipped Lesson 60 min
![Loading Loading](https://eslbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-favorite-posts/img/loading.gif)
Immediate response (not) required
BusinessThis lesson plan deals with synchronous and asynchronous communication. Apart from doing listening comprehension tasks, students will build adjectives with negative prefixes and learn some communication idioms.