listening for details
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Would you like to work a four-day week? (listening for details)

Business

In 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.

People making small talk in English
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Mastering small talk

Business Lifestyle

In 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.

business English role plays
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 75 min
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How to work with people who get under your skin

Business

This lesson plan is based on a video about how to deal with difficult relationships at work and includes two business English role plays.

negative prefixes
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 60 min
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Immediate response (not) required

Business

This 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.

business case study worksheet
B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Flipped Lesson 45 min
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Decision time (business case study)

Business

Thanks to this business case study worksheet, students learn phrasal verbs to talk about companies, watch a video presenting a case study and discuss situations when companies face different problems.

lesson plan on describing products
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 60 min
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Apple’s legendary keynotes

Business Lifestyle

The objective of this lesson plan is to teach students some adjectives for describing products and show them a video analysing Apple’s legendary keynotes.

giving good and bad news in English
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min
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Good news or bad news, which do you want first?

Business General

This lesson plan deals with functional language for giving good and bad news in English. Students will learn useful expressions and do a role-play.

lesson plan about recruitment
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 60 min
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How unconscious bias affects your chances of getting a job

Business

This lesson plan about recruitment deals with unconscious bias among recruiters. The worksheet includes a lot of vocabulary as well as word formation tasks and includes a TED Talk by Gail Tolstoi-Miller.

working from home
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 45 min
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How to master working from home

Business Grammar

Thanks to this ESL lesson plan your students will learn some useful vocabulary, study verb patterns and watch a video about tips for working from home.

functional language for online meetings
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min
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Functional language for online meetings

Business

Teach your students some basic functional language for online meetings that they need to know. Later practise that in real-life situations and have some fun watching a comedy sketch.

productivity lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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How to be more productive at work

Business

This productivity lesson plan is based on two short videos in which Charles Duhigg presents his ideas for boosting work productivity.

veganism lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Vegan economy

Business Global Issues

With our veganism lesson plan, students will learn new food-related words and expressions, watch a news report and discuss veganism and its pros and cons.

decision making lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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How to make faster decisions

Business

This decision-making lesson plan is based on the concept of FOBO – fear of a better option. In this lesson, your students will learn new vocabulary, discover some decision-making strategies and talk about their own experiences.

fractions in English
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 45 min
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Workplace ghosting (fractions in English)

Business

This flipped lesson plan will make your students aware of such a phenomenon as workplace ghosting and introduce them to the world of statistics.

B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 30 min
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Problem solving with 5 Whys

Business

In this worksheet students will learn a very popular problem solving technique called 5 Whys (5W) and practise asking questions.

first Business English lesson
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Me, my work and I – first Business English lesson plan

Business

What’s your idea for your first lesson with your adult students? Check out what we do on our first Business English lesson with new students.

cashless society lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Going Cashless? – Money and Payments Vocab

Business

Our cashless society lesson plan will engage your students into a discussion on the future of money while teaching them some new money-related vocabulary.

stress management lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Stress? Let’s deal with it!

Business Lifestyle

Use our stress management lesson plan to teach phrases with the word stress and discuss how to cope with workplace stress and how it affects your life.

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