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Standard Lesson 60 min
Blockchain: there’s more to it than crypto
Business TechnologyIn this lesson about blockchain applications, students get an opportunity to practise their listening skills and learn some advanced collocations.
Standard Lesson 60 min
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 75 min
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
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 60 min
Make the most of your LinkedIn profile
BusinessIn this lesson plan on LinkedIn students discover how to create a successful professional profile, practise their listening skills and write a LinkedIn profile summary.
Flipped Lesson 45 min
Do the side hustle!
BusinessThanks to this worksheet, students practise work‐related verb collocations, learn what a side hustle is and watch an interesting video about it.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Know your FinTech vocabulary
Business TechnologyThanks to this lesson plan on FinTech, students will learn words from the financial technology industry. The worksheet focuses on vocabulary and is suitable for IT and e-commerce professionals.
Standard Lesson 60 min
What do you do?
BusinessThanks to this pre‐intermediate Business English lesson plan, students will learn useful words and phrases for describing companies and jobs.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Lessons in success from those you admire
Business LifestyleWith this lesson plan, your students will talk about success, what they might learn from people they admire and their own experience. What’s more, they will learn a few common English collocations.
Flipped Lesson 45 min
Danger! Pyramid schemes
BusinessThis worksheet for advanced English students deals with pyramid schemes. Throughout the lesson, students will learn a lot of vocabulary and express their opinions on ‘get rich quick’ schemes.
Standard Lesson 60 min
When a crisis strikes, a good leader…
BusinessThis leadership lesson plan is based on a short video in which the speaker, Amy C. Edmondson gives advice on how to lead in crisis. The worksheet focuses on speaking and vocabulary activities for advanced students.
Flipped Lesson 60 min
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.
Flipped Lesson 45 min
Decision time (business case study)
BusinessThanks 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.
Flipped Lesson 60 min
Apple’s legendary keynotes
Business LifestyleThe objective of this lesson plan is to teach students some adjectives for describing products and show them a video analysing Apple’s legendary keynotes.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Good news or bad news, which do you want first?
Business GeneralThis lesson plan deals with functional language for giving good and bad news in English. Students will learn useful expressions and do a role-play.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Mixed conditionals for Business English
Business GrammarThe lesson plan introduces the rules of mixed conditionals and makes Business English learners practise them through various activities.
Flipped Lesson 60 min
The stories of famous entrepreneurs
Business GrammarThis lesson plan is perfect for Past Simple revision. Students practise using the tense as well as learn vocabulary related to running a business.
Flipped Lesson 45 min
There’s no business without challenges
BusinessThis Business English worksheet for B1 students gives them opportunity to speak about different businesses and their challenges, and analyse case studies.
Flipped Lesson 60 min
Universal basic income
Business Global IssuesThis social welfare lesson plan deals with UBI, that is universal basic income. Students will learn a lot of related vocabulary as well as express their opinions on UBI and other social welfare issues.
Flipped Lesson 60 min
How unconscious bias affects your chances of getting a job
BusinessThis 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.
Flipped Lesson 60 min
Big Brother is watching you
Business TechnologyThis surveillance lesson plan looks into the topic of employee monitoring software and questions the use of this technology raises.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Communication is not that easy!
BusinessThis communication lesson plan is based on a short video presenting how miscommunication happens and how we can avoid it. The worksheet includes vocabulary tasks, listening comprehension and speaking practice.
Standard Lesson 30 min
Inclusive language
Business Global IssuesWe developed this worksheet to teach some inclusive language. In this one-page handout, students will learn what inclusive language is and discover some examples of both inclusive and exclusive language.
Flipped Lesson 45 min
How to master working from home
Business GrammarThanks 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.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Functional language for online meetings
BusinessTeach 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.
Flipped Lesson 60 min
Writing effective emails – formal and informal language
BusinessTeach your B1 students some formal and informal email language and give them some tips on writing effectively with our ESL lesson plan on writing emails.
Standard Lesson 60 min
How to be more productive at work
BusinessThis productivity lesson plan is based on two short videos in which Charles Duhigg presents his ideas for boosting work productivity.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Vegan economy
Business Global IssuesWith 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.
Standard Lesson 60 min
How to make faster decisions
BusinessThis 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.
Flipped Lesson 45 min
Workplace ghosting (fractions in English)
BusinessThis flipped lesson plan will make your students aware of such a phenomenon as workplace ghosting and introduce them to the world of statistics.
Standard Lesson 30 min
Problem solving with 5 Whys
BusinessIn this worksheet students will learn a very popular problem solving technique called 5 Whys (5W) and practise asking questions.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Me, my work and I – first Business English lesson plan
Business GeneralGet to know your new students with this first Business English lesson! They talk about themselves and their work, as well as do some activities that will help you assess their level of English.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Going Cashless? – Money and Payments Vocab
BusinessOur cashless society lesson plan will engage your students into a discussion on the future of money while teaching them some new money-related vocabulary.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Stress? Let’s deal with it!
Business LifestyleUse 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.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Modern workplace amenities (Business English speaking class)
BusinessThis Business English lesson plan looks at the modern office spaces and the cool office amenities we have. It focuses mainly on practising speaking skills.
Flipped Lesson 30 min
Generational stereotypes at work
BusinessVideo-based ESL lesson plan which focuses on stereotypical generations at work. It’s perfect for professionals, especially involved in HR/Employer Branding
