Business Tasks

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    Business tasks: Success and failure

    This lesson will equip students with some common expressions for talking about their successes and failures.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Progress and achievement

    A lesson by Adrian Doff for students to practise using common expressions for talking about making progress and achieving something.

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    Problems and difficulties

    A lesson by Adrian Doff focusing on the grammar and functional language of problems and how to solve them.

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    Talking

    A lesson by Adrian Doff for students to use common expressions to describe ways of communicating.

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    Studying and learning

    A lesson by Adrian Doff for students to talk about subjects of study and to discuss going to college or university.

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    Ability and skill

    A lesson by Adrian Doff for students to practise using common expressions for talking about ability and skill.

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    Chance and opportunity

    A lesson by Adrian Doff for students to practise talking about available opportunities, taking and missing opportunities and about scope for doing things.

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    Things that often happen

    A comprehensive lesson by Adrian Doff for students to practise using common expressions for talking about frequent events and tendencies and to talk about routines at work.

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    Risk and danger

    A lesson for students to learn and practise common expressions for talking about risk and danger and to talk about whether or not to take risks.

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    Changes

    A lesson by Adrian Doff for students to practise talking about how things have changed or been altered.

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    Contact

    A lesson to help students to use common expressions for talking about contacting people and keeping in touch.

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    Contrast

    A lesson by Adrian Doff for students to talk about contrasts, to contrast opposing ideas and to say how things are different from what people believe or expect.

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    Decisions

    A comprehensive lesson by Adrian Doff, for students to talk about decisions they have made and to say whether people are good at making decisions.

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    Business tasks: Experience

    A lesson to help students talk about their work experience and what they have and haven’t done before.

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    Getting and losing jobs

    A lesson by Adrian Doff for students to practise talking about looking for, finding and getting jobs, changing jobs and being promoted and leaving and losing jobs.

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    Knowledge

    A comprehensive lesson by Adrian Doff for students to practise using common expressions for talking about knowledge and expertise.

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    Money

    A lesson by Adrian Doff for students to talk about making, losing and saving money.

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    Notes and messages

    A lesson to help students learn common expressions for talking about notes, messages, and minutes.