Business English
Access more than 400 business resources on onestopenglish, including our Business tasks series, Business Spotlight news lessons and the Business skills bank containing lesson ideas for essential business skills.
These are all easily accessible to download and print via the menus below. With over 8,000 resources, including lesson plans, worksheets,audio, video and flashcards, onestopenglish provides thousands of great lesson ideas at your fingertips.
We add brand new content to the Business section of onestopenglish every month. Please write to the web editor if there's anything you'd like to see included in this section.
Inside Business English
Business tasks
In this 20-part series, Adrian Doff provides a comprehensive set of worksheets covering functional language in business, along with business-related grammar practice and language development.
Business Spotlight
A series of self-contained lesson plans by Karen Richardson that you can use in a business English class with pre-service or in-service students, in one-to-one teaching situations or to focus on a particular topic, business skill or area of business-related language. Each lesson plan provides you with material for approximately 90 minutes’ teaching.
Business skills bank
Practical materials from our expert authors, covering essential business skills such as emailing, telephoning, meetings and presentations.
Working language
In this series, published in conjunction with the Learning English section of the Guardian Weekly, Mark Powell, author of In Company, presents a snapshot of everyday business language.
Teaching approaches
Advice for teachers on a range of teaching techniques used in business English (needs analysis, one-to-one teaching, using simulations, etc.). Includes lesson plans and worksheets.
Business English extra
There is a wealth of material on onestopenglish for teaching Business English. A lot of it is obvious as you’ll find it here, within the Business section of the site. However, there are many other great resources elsewhere on the site which are suitable and relevant for use in your Business English classes. In this article, Adrian Tennant takes a look at some of the other materials available and suggests how they can be integrated into your teaching.
