Business English - Mid Level
Business English is becoming ever more important around the world. Thousands of companies worldwide want their employees to be able to cope in a business world that increasingly speaks English. On this page you will find mid level business English materials that you will be able to use with intermediate level students.
Grammar
Title: Presenting Your Company
Target Language: Passive, vocabulary of company information.
Description: Some basic vocabulary work on words and expressions used to describe company history and function. Student then learn how to present their company with some grammar focus on the use of the passive voice.
Duration: 60 minutes.
Lesson Plan: B2G1
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Title: Reported Speech
Target Language: Reported speech, making complaints.
Description: Based around a customer complaining about a computer, this lesson plan looks at the structure of reported speech. The lesson finishes with a speaking game that gets students practising what they have learned about reported speech.
Duration: 60 minutes.
Lesson Plan: B2G2
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Title: Have To
Target Language: Obligation and lack of obligation: have to / had to.
Description: What do students have to do as part of their daily work routine? This lesson focuses on both the positive and negative forms of "have to" and ends with a look at the past form too in the context of a customer making a complaint by phone.
Duration: 65 minutes.
Lesson Plan: B2G3
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Title: Meetings Abroad
Target Language: Modals\expressions of advice, obligation.
Description: Looks at the important issue of business trips abroad and differences in culture to teach modal verbs of necessity, obligation and prohibition. In this lesson, there is a particular focus on reading and writing e-mails about the issue.
Duration: 60 minutes.
Lesson Plan: B2G4
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Writing
Here you will find a series of lesson plans to guide your students towards successful business letter writing.
Title: Business Letters I
Target Language: Requesting and Sending Information.
Description: This is the first in a series of "Business Letter" lessons. In this one, students will learn more about both sending and requesting information with practice of letter openings, structure, register and salutations.
Duration: 60 minutes.
Lesson Plan: B2W1
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Speaking
Title: Making Phone Calls
Target Language: Using the telephone in English.
Description: This lesson plan will help to give your students more confidence when having to use the phone in English, especially in a business environment. There is a particular focus on using the correct register in a business context.
Duration: 50 minutes.
Lesson Plan: B2S1
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