| LESSON OVERVIEW
Thanks to this pre‐intermediate Business English lesson plan, students will learn useful words and phrases for describing companies and jobs.
DESCRIBING COMPANIES
The worksheet starts with a quick speaking activity. Students look at the list of companies (e.g. Ikea, Apple, Nike, etc.) and say whether they know them and have their products. Next, they study a box with a few verbs (specialise, produce, include, employ, design, etc.) and say what these verbs mean. Once the meaning of the verbs is clear, students move to another exercise. They read a few sentences about different companies and have to complete them with the correct pairs of verbs. To practise the verbs, students discuss questions and talk about companies they work for using the verbs they’ve learnt.
DESCRIBING JOBS
The next part of this pre‐intermediate Business English lesson plan is about students’ jobs and responsibilities. First, they read a questionnaire and match words and phrases in bold to their meanings. After checking the answers, students discuss the questionnaire. Depending on your class, you could ask students to work in pairs, make notes about their partner’s job and then, say what they do in their job. In the next exercise, students learn that the verb ‘work’ goes with a few prepositions (e.g. in, for, on) by matching halves to create correct phrases. Then, to practise all the vocabulary from this lesson plan, students read a short text about someone’s company and job and choose correct words. The goal of this exercise is to check whether students understand verbs as well as prepositions that they’ve learnt thanks to this worksheet. Finally, students prepare a short description of their company and their job. You may do that in a form of a writing or speaking task.
WORKSHEETS
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This is a great class. Thank you. I’m very happy you have decided to add more A2 level classes. Keep up the good work.
Thanks! I hope you’ll find other A2 worksheets useful as well.
Very good worksheet!
I love the A2 classes! Thank you for that!
This lesson was great for my students. I used it with a general English group, not business English but it worked very nicely and generated lots of conversation. I added some further conversation questions. Thanks so much
Great to hear that! That’s our goal, to make students speak a lot.
Quite difficult for A2
One of the best lesson plan to facilitate the work of ESP teachers. Thank you
That really made my day! Thank you so much
great!!!
Hi there!
Really interesting and helpful!
Do you happen to know any videos which could go together?
(I’ll let you know if I find something)
Hi Agnaldo! Unfortunately, we couldn’t find anything suitable to supplement this lesson, but if you do, please share it with us!
Very well done! Thanks a lot!
Hi,
I cannot find the questionnaire mentioned in ex. nr 5?
Am I missing something?
Thanks!
Hi!
Actually, the questionnaire is right there in ex. 5. Nothing fancy, but it should make students learn some vocab and speak
Thank you
This is great!
Fine lesson! Thank you
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Thank you so much for such kind words about our work! We really appreciate that
I really appreciate the hard work that you do to produce these materials <3. Please keep adding more business lessons for beginner learners!!
Thank you for a lovely comment
We’ll do our best!