C1 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 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 C1 Business Lesson Flow?

This Lesson Flow, consisting of 17 main lessons, is designed for advanced students who want to further develop their business communication skills and build confidence in professional interactions. It ensures learners can discuss a wide variety of business topics while expanding their vocabulary and mastering natural, effective language for professional contexts.

Developing language skills

With this C1 Business Lesson Flow, your students will work on:

• speaking skills while talking about professional profiles and LinkedIn, global skills passports, job seeking, nepotism and favouritism, career advice, coaching and mentoring, success and failure, innovation, side hustle, downshifting, personality traits, leadership and creativity, side hustles, ambition and adaptability, corporate communication, cross-cultural interactions, conflict resolutions, sustainability, ESG and corporate responsibility, management styles and work motivation, small business challenges, uncertain times in business, mergers and acquisitions, pricing fluctuations; activities include role-plays, case studies and infographic discussions;
• listening skills with a video about LinkedIn, a video about a recruitment app, a podcast about nepotism, an inspirational video with unsolicited career advice, a video about a coaching session, an interview with a business owner, an explainer video about a well-known restaurant franchise, a video about a side hustle, an interview about redefining ambitions, a fun reel about corporate language, an explainer video on the Culture Map framework, a podcast on conflict narratives, a video exploring consumer behaviour, a video about the founder of the company Patagonia, a video about a model for understanding difficult situations, a Think Big video on psychology of motivation at work, a video about cybersecurity and a video excerpt about a virtuous inflation cycle; 
• reading skills with articles about global skills passports, the psychology of innovation, adaptability and other traits, a bossless workplace; with a text about the TKI (Thomas-Kilman Conflict Instrument) styles, five short texts from a Forbes report,  three short texts about successful and unsuccessful mergers; 
• writing skills while creating a LinkedIn profile summary, writing and paraphrasing sentences, completing dialogues, creating short conversations, writing recommendations.

Improving grammar, vocabulary and functional language

The Flow also makes your students learn and practise:

• vocabulary: advanced expressions related to job seeking; phrases about personal development, idioms related to failure, vocabulary related to innovation, collocations related to business and investment, collocations with the word ‘job’ and other verb collocations, advanced vocabulary for talking about success and ambition, corporate jargon and metaphors, collocations related to cross-cultural communication, conflict-related collocations, compound adjectives, motivation idioms, useful vocabulary related to worker cooperatives, Business English vocabulary to talk about mergers and acquisitions; 
• grammar: cleft sentences, nominalization; 
• functional language: various structures for giving advice, polite language at work, ways to negotiate conflict. 

Want to learn more?

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