Topic: Business Skills
Standard Lesson 60 min

All about branding
BusinessThis is a perfect lesson for students who want to discuss brands and the idea of branding. Students learn and practise useful phrases, as well as improve their comprehension skills.
Standard Lesson 60 min

Being a successful entrepreneur
BusinessStudents immerse in the world of entrepreneurship: they generate questions, watch an explainer video, read inspiring success stories, describe pictures and answer thought-provoking questions.
Critical Reading Club 30 min

Adaptability and other must-have traits
BusinessIn this lesson, students discuss the article they read at home about adaptability as a must-have trait. They work with some vocabulary and discuss other traits necessary for business.
Standard Lesson 60 min

That’s a bit over the top!
Business GeneralThis lesson focuses on business competition vocabulary through learning about unusual business ideas. Students learn useful phrases, watch a video, and discuss business cases.
Critical Reading Club 30 min

How useful is networking?
BusinessIn this CRC lesson, students talk about professional networking, discuss networking tips, as well as learn and practise vocabulary related to the topic.
Standard Lesson 60 min

Passive income
BusinessIn this passive income ESL lesson plan, students watch a video, learn vocabulary and have speaking practice.
Standard Lesson 60 min

Corporate speak
BusinessThis ESL lesson on corporate jargon includes a video, a lot of discussion and practice of some popular phrases.
Standard Lesson 60 min

Conversations we dread
Business GeneralIn this ESL lesson about communication students talk about difficult conversations and share their experiences. They learn vocabulary, watch a video, have a discussion, role play and practise useful expressions.
Standard Lesson 60 min

Word-of-mouth marketing
BusinessThis lesson about marketing will spark a lot of discussion among students. Learners will also watch a video about word-of-mouth marketing as well as learn and practise useful collocations.
Speaking Class 45 min / 60 min

Let’s talk about projects!
BusinessIn this lesson about projects, students watch a video ad, talk about their experience with projects and discuss different project management problems.
Standard Lesson 60 min

Does everyone need a mentor?
BusinessIn this lesson about mentorship students discuss mentor and mentee’s relationships, define what successful mentorship is and watch a video about it. Students also do a role play discussing work problems and exchanging advice.
Standard Lesson 90 min

First impressions matter
BusinessWith this intermediate lesson plan, students talk about first impressions, watch a video about the first day in a new job, and write a self-introduction.
Standard Lesson 90 min

Catching up made easy
BusinessIn this lesson about instant messaging, students watch a video, discuss the rules for instant messaging and write short messages to each other.
Standard Lesson 60 min

Skills for the job
BusinessIn this lesson, students watch a video about different types of skills, learn useful vocabulary, and practise talking about hard and soft skills.
Standard Lesson 75 min

The art of giving feedback
BusinessIn this lesson, students discover a formula to help them give great feedback and learn some useful phrases for giving and receiving feedback in English. They also watch a video about giving feedback and learn vocabulary related to it.
Standard Lesson 60 min

Presentation: putting skills into action
BusinessWith this lesson plan, students practise giving a presentation in English by doing a lot of different speaking activities. The lesson is the third of the three-part series of lessons about delivering presentations.
Standard Lesson 75 min

Moving through your presentation
BusinessWith this lesson plan, students learn plenty of useful phrases for presentations in English. They also prepare presentation excerpts, and learn how to start a presentation. The lesson is the second of the three-part series of lessons about delivering presentations.
Standard Lesson 60 min

How to nail that presentation
BusinessIn this lesson about business presentations in English, students discuss presentation structures in depth, watch a video with tips on giving presentations, and learn useful words and phrases related to the topic. The lesson is the first of the three-part series of lessons about delivering presentations.
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