A2/B1 Business Lesson Flow

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 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 A2/B1 Business Lesson Flow?

This Lesson Flow is perfect for students who are improving their Business English skills but are not yet at the B1 level. It helps them build workplace vocabulary, functional language, and key grammar structures while developing confidence in discussing professional topics.

Last updated (June 2025)

Since we first published the flow, we’ve added a lesson on modal verbs of obligation and possibility and a speaking lesson on different generations. There are also follow-up lessons featuring useful functional language.

Developing language skills

With this A2/B1 Business Lesson Flow, your students will work on:

• speaking skills while talking about professions, work responsibilities, first day at work, hard and soft skills, gadgets, employee benefits, cultural and generational differences, business trips and travelling by plane, farewells and entrepreneurship, while doing role-plays and creating dialogues;
• listening skills with videos about unusual jobs, explainer videos on why people work, the difference between hard and soft skills and about entrepreneurship, ads for a taxi company, a hotel and a gadget, a video on good onboarding, an office tour, a funny BuzzFeed video; and recordings like airport and plane announcements; 
• reading skills with short texts about companies, responsibilities, gadgets descriptions and with dialogues;
• writing skills while writing their company or job description and creating a farewell message.

Improving grammar, vocabulary and functional language

The Flow also makes your students learn and practise:

• vocabulary: describing companies and jobs, collocations to describe a day at work, phrases related to job roles, verb collocations with ‘skills’, useful adjectives, airport vocabulary, activities to do at a hotel, workplace meetings vocabulary, employee benefits, entrepreneurship. 
• grammar: expressing purpose with ‘to’ and ‘for’, modal verbs of possibility and obligation, Present Perfect for experiences. 
• functional language: agreeing and disagreeing, useful phrases for air travel, phrases to make requests, fillers and backchanneling, making hotel reservations, farewell messages. 

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