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Business Lesson Plans
Home » Adults » Business and ESPPractical materials from our expert authors, covering essential business skills such as emailing, meetings and presentations.
Business Top Trumps: An Introduction
Check out this original set of Business Top Trumps cards and twelve complete lesson plans and inject some fun into your Business English classes.
Business Top Trumps: Lesson 10—Setting personal goals
In this lesson, students can discuss setting and achieving work goals and what changes they can make to improve their performance.
Business Top Trumps: Lesson 11—Presentations
In this lesson, students learn different ways of starting and giving a presentation.
Business Top Trumps: Lesson 12—Making proposals
In this lesson, students learn about the language of corporate responsibility through future forms, conditionals, and modals.
Emailing 1
Students gain an introduction to emailing and practise using the present continuous for arrangements.
Lesson Share: Business writing basics
Students review important elements of good business writing in English, especially for letters and emails.
Lesson Share: Henry Ford
A gap-fill activity to exchange information about the life of Henry Ford and to complete a text by asking questions.
Business tasks: Success and failure
This lesson will equip students with some common expressions for talking about their successes and failures.
Work and responsibilities
A lesson to help students talk about jobs and what they involve and to talk about what people are responsible for in a company.
Business Tasks
Adrian Doff introduces a new series of lesson plans specifically designed for teachers of English for business. This article provides an overview of the series, as well as hints and tips on how best to exploit it.
Progress and achievement
A lesson by Adrian Doff for students to practise using common expressions for talking about making progress and achieving something.
Professional Communication Skills: Leading Discussions
Use these interactive materials to deliver an online or face-to-face lesson on how to lead a discussion.
Live from London: Business — Meetings
Teach your students about the benefits of regular meetings while developing their Business English.
Live from London: Business—Negotiations
Watch authentic London office workers describe the ways to conduct successful negotiations and the skills good negotiators need. Now Interactive!
Let's Talk Business
Let’s Talk Business: Management—Doing an MBA
Get your students talking about business qualifications and their value with this ready-to-go worksheet.
Business Basics: Socializing with clients
In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise small talk about weather, hotels and travel. Exercises include: revising small talk vocabulary, ordering words to make questions, listening to small talk conversations in a business scenario and role-playing.
Business Basics: A job interview
In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise basic language associated with job interviews. Exercises include: identifying vocabulary used in job adverts, listening to a job interview and completing the gaps, creating a CV and role-playing a job interview.
Business Basics: Office procedures
In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise helping a new colleague with office procedures. Exercises include: identifying the correct modal verb, listening to an office conversation, giving advice and writing a set of office procedures.
Business Spotlight: Your plan for 2020
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, offers 20 tips that can help everybody further their career.
Business Spotlight: Your workplace’s best friend?
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about taking pets into work.
Business Spotlight: Dress for success
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about what we wear to work.
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