advanced lesson on negotiation
C1 / Advanced | C2 / Proficiency
Flipped Lesson 60 min

Sealing the deal

Business

Talk about negotiation with this lesson! Students practise negotiation phrases and structures, watch a video on steps to succeed in negotiation and role-play situations involving negotiation.

esl lesson on meeting facilitation
C1 / Advanced | C2 / Proficiency
Standard Lesson 75 min

Can you weigh in on this?

Business

Students learn functional vocabulary for meeting facilitation and share relevant experiences, approaches, and opinions. They discuss the facilitator role and learn facilitation techniques. They also watch a video and do a roleplay.

ESL lesson on performance reviews
B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Flipped Lesson 60 min

Time for a performance review!

Business

With this lesson, students learn functional vocabulary to talk about performance reviews (e.g. overlook, reassess). They discuss hypothetical situations and engage in a role-play. They also share opinions, watch a video, and discuss performance management tools.

functional language for clarifying
B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min

What I’m trying to say is… (clarifying and explaining)

General

Help your students practise clarifying and explaining across various contexts. Elevate their communication skills through different strategies of providing clear explanations.

C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min

Can you elaborate on your thinking here? (polite language)

Business

In this ESL lesson on polite language students watch a video, have a discussion, learn and practise useful phrases. 

ESL lesson about communication
C1 / Advanced | C2 / Proficiency
Standard Lesson 75 min

Conversations we dread

Business General

In 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. 

phrases for giving opinions
B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 75 min

Elegance versus bling (case study)

Business

In this lesson, students watch a video about a company facing problems, learn advanced phrases for giving opinions, and discuss case studies.

language for presentations
C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 75 min

The city of the future is here

Technology

With this lesson plan based on a video about Toyota’s city of the future students learn some useful language for presentations and then practise their presentation skills.

panel show
B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 90 min

Question Time – Let’s have a panel show!

General

In this lesson, students read two short texts about a TV series, The Crown and a panel show, Question Time, learn useful language for agreeing and disagreeing, and have a panel show.

describing sounds in English
C1 / Advanced
Flipped Lesson 45 min

The world of sounds around us

General

In this lesson plan, students will learn verbs for describing sounds in English and talk about irritating sounds using phrases for expressing annoyance.

communication lesson plan
C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min

Communication is not that easy!

Business

This 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.

women leaders
B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min

Why we have too few women leaders

Business

This worksheet based on Sheryl Sandberg’s talk “Why we have too few women leaders” focuses on gender equality and the perspective of Facebook’s COO on the problem of not enough women holding senior management positions.

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