| LESSON OVERVIEW
We are back with some business-oriented ESL lesson plan. This time the lesson focuses on Business English collocations. The worksheet is based on Leeron Segal’s speech titled “Upgrading management technology” which is a discussion starter and a background for practising advanced Business English collocations. The speech itself raises interesting questions about corporate management and how it has not changed a lot for years.
VOCABULARY – BUSINESS ENGLISH COLLOCATIONS
The lesson kicks off with a short warm-up discussion. Then, students move to an exercise on identifying right Business English collocations. They need to match words from two columns to create collocations. Additionally, this task also introduces expressions used in the video so it will help your students in following the speech. In the second vocabulary activity, students must match some words from the previous activity with groups of words that collocate with them. This way students will be equipped with a variety of Business English expression that they can use in their everyday work life.
LISTENING COMPREHENSION
The next section is video comprehension. The language used in the video is not every demanding, however, the speaker talks pretty fast so students need to focus to catch the answers to comprehension questions. After you students watch the video for the first time, you may check how many answers they have. If you feel it’s necessary, let the students watch the recording the second time and stop after each question.
DISCUSSION
As usual, the last part of the lesson is a discussion. Try to encourage students to use new Business English collocations – they were selected specifically for this task in mind. The topic and issues raised in the video are quite interesting and should stir a conversation among your students. Hopefully, they will use the new language to express their opinions on the business environment they work in.
The lesson should take around 60 minutes (including 7-min talk) and it has been developed for C1 adult professionals (preferably corporate staff).
WORKSHEETS
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4.F. What did Henry Ford say a hundred years ago?
Answer should be: “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
Hi Rakesh! We fixed that inconsistency in the Teacher’s Version – now it better corresponds to the question. Thanks for spotting that and leaving a comment
This one is very business-oriented, students without work experiences would find it worthless, I think 😉
I’m sorry but quite often you provide videos that are a bit too long. A video for a lesson shouldn’t be longer than 3-4 minutes
You’re right and that’s why we haven’t been doing it for a long time. You will see that vast majority of our lessons (i.e. created in 2019 or later) don’t have long videos (we only use them for Flipped Classroom). BTW This is one of my first lessons published at ESL Brains back in 2017 so thanks for bringing back some fantastic memories 😊
I think the long video problem can be solved by sending the student a link to the video with a few pre-lesson questions. We sometimes see a video which is perfect for the lesson theme but is a little too long. We have to work around this.