All Business / ESP articles – Page 21
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Travel agents
The sixth lesson plan in this series by Keith Harding is available at two levels - elementary and intermediate - and contains comprehensive teacher's notes and student worksheets. The elementary lesson practises vocabulary related to holidays and dealing with bookings, while the intermediate lesson concentrates on language related to advertising and superlatives.
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Business Spotlight: The art doctor
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, a businessman talks about his decision to dramatically change his career path and the consequences it had on his life.
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Business Spotlight: Moving down under
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, Nerida Frost talks about how she made the move from Germany to New Zealand with her family.
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Business Spotlight: Making a start
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, deals with the stages of kick-off meetings and their importance for the success of new projects.
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Business Spotlight: The case against self-employment
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, deals with the advantages and disadvantages of having a full-time contract and being self-employed.
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Hospitality and Tourism
In this introduction to his series of resources, Keith Harding provides some tips for using the materials.
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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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Your English: Idioms: hand
Tim Bowen has his hands full with this handy selection of hand-related idioms.
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Your English: Collocations: place
Tim Bowen captures the mood with this educational discussion on collocates of the word place .
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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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Business tasks: Probability: Lesson plan
A lesson by Adrian Doff for students to practise talking about probability: to talk about things you expect or don’t expect to happen, and to say whether things are likely or unlikely.
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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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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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Extreme makeover
Mark Powell talks about international Business English and its need for an extreme makeover, dicussing alternatives such as Globish and English as a lingua franca.