Business English - Pre-intermediate level (21 Lessons)
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Lesson 1. Finance In this worksheet, students learn and practice vocabulary connected with finance. Activities cover key verbs and nouns, financial businesses, and banking collocations. |
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Lesson 2. Working hours
In this lesson, students read an article about pros and cons of Sweden's six-hour work day. The 5-page worksheet includes a grammar activity on reported speech. |
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Lesson 3. Statistics
In this lesson, students learn how to describe graphs using simple verb and adverb combinations in the past simple. The worksheet also includes an exercise on describing pie charts using quantifiers (most ..., a quarter of ..., 10 percent of ..., etc.) |
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Lesson 4. Freelancing
In this lesson, students read an article about the freelancing trend in the UK, and the challenges and opportunities faced by self-employed people. The grammar section of the worksheet covers `will + infinitive' and `going to + infinitive' for making future predictions. |
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Lesson 5. Business emails
In this lesson, students learn how to write emails for their work. The worksheet compares formal and informal styles of writing. |
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Lesson 6. Your company
In this dialogue-aided lesson, students listen to an employee being interviewed about her company. They then practice using the questions and key vocabulary from the dialogue to talk about their own companies. |
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Lesson 7. Career advice
In this lesson, students read an article about the phrases that they should avoid using in their careers. The worksheet includes a grammar exercise on should/shouldn't + infinitive for giving advice and expressing expectation. The lesson recycles some of the vocabulary covered in the worksheet Describing colleagues. |
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Lesson 8. Describing colleagues
In this lesson, students learn how to describe colleagues and people at work using a variety of adjectives and expressions. |
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Lesson 9. Work space
In this lesson, students read a text about the pros and cons of working in an open-plan office. The worksheet focuses on vocabulary and speaking. There is also an exercise on linking words and phrases. |
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Lesson 10. First conditional review (business version)
This is the business version of our grammar lesson plan First Conditional Review. The worksheet is suitable for classroom practice or homework. |
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Lesson 11. Taking a break
In this lesson, students read an article about how skipping lunch can affect productivity and well-being in the workplace. The worksheet includes an activity on the use of can/can't for talking about ability and possibility. |
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Lesson 12. Present perfect practice (business version)
In this business English version of our lesson plan Present perfect practice, students study the past simple and past participle forms of common irregular verb and practice the present perfect with 'since', 'for', 'ever' and 'never'. |
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Lesson 13. Left behind
In this lesson filler, students listen to a dialogue between two work colleagues. One of the speakers has forgotten several items in his office and tries to explain where they are. The lesson rounds off with a role play activity in which students then practice using prepositions and expressions of place. |
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Lesson 14. Comparing brands
In this dialogue-based lesson, students listen to a short market survey interview with a consumer about her opinions on consumer electronics brands. The focus is on the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives. At the end of the worksheet, there is a role play in which students interview each other. |
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Lesson 15. Words in English
In this business English version of our popular lesson filler 'Learning English', students learn how to say the letters of the alphabet, how to ask about the meaning and spelling of unfamiliar words and how to describe different parts of speech (nouns, verbs, prepositions, pronouns adverbs). There is a pairwork activity in which partners take turns to ask each other questions about the English terms for common items found in an office. |
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Lesson 16. Bright ideas
In this lesson, students read about UK businessman Richard Branson's ideas. The worksheet includes a grammar exercise on defining relative clauses with 'who', 'which', 'that', 'whose' and 'where'. |
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Lesson 17. Future review (business version)
In this video-aided lesson plan, students review the structures going to, will and the present continuous for talking about the future. The worksheet is suitable for classroom practice or homework. |
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Lesson 18. Present review (business version)
In this business English version of our video-aided lesson plan Present review, students review the present simple and present continuous tenses. The worksheet is suitable for classroom practice or homework. |
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Lesson 19. Asking questions (business version)
Questions can be especially tricky for lower level learners. This business English version of our simple lesson plan Asking questions is designed to build the students' confidence when using question structures. |
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Lesson 20. Past review (business version)
In this business English version of our video-aided lesson plan Past review, students review the past simple and past continuous tenses. The worksheet is suitable for classroom practice or homework. |
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Lesson 21. Living at work
In this lesson, students read about the lifestyle of certain Google employees who have reportedly been living on the company's premises. The worksheet includes several vocabulary exercises and a discussion activity. |