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Business Teachers' Resources Archive

Try out these free business English resources. They come from our wide range of ELT books and products.

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Making Connections Lesson Plan

Learning Objective: To practice meeting people in a business context and exchanging business cards.

Skills/Grammar:
Speaking, making self-introductions

- Making Connections Lesson Plan
- English Language Warm-Up
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Making Connections Business Cards

Business Teachers' Resources Archive

 

Charles Atlas Lesson Plan

Learning Objective: To learn phrasal verbs and practise reading comprehension through a text on 'the world's most perfectly developed man' Charles Atlas.

Skills/Grammar:
Reading, Vocabulary/Phrasal Verbs

- Charles Atlas Lesson Plan
- Charles Atlas Text
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Charles Atlas Comprehension
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Charles Atlas Comprehension Answers
- Charles Atlas Phrasal Verbs
- Charles Atlas Phrasal Verbs Answers

   

 

BEGINNER
Powerbase
Try these photocopiable worksheets (45Kb PDF) to practice using numbers and writing faxes.

From the Powerbase.
 
Global Links

Would you like something to drink? Try this photocopiable activity (480Kb PDF) to practice language needed for corporate social situations.

From the Global Links 1 Teacher's Book.


ELEMENTARY

Hotels (470Kb PDF)
Hotel vocabulary and reading travel documents.

From Work in Progress by Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter

Work in Progress
   

Market Leader Elementary (325Kb PDF)

Download this full-colour, double-page spread from the new Market Leader Elementary Coursebook.

Market Leader Elementary

PRE-INTERMEDIATE
Powerbase
Fill in the gaps
Writing practise from Powerbase.
   
Market Leader

Lego - The building blocks of success (20Kb PDF)
Reading and discussion on the children's toy manufacturer.

From Market Leader Premier website.

   
First Insights into Business
Male and Female Working Styles (900Kb PDF)
Reading and discussion on how men and women behave in the workplace.

From First Insights into Business by Sue Robbins

INTERMEDIATE
   
An interesting exercise focusing on branding (50Kb PDF) complete with teacher's notes (55Kb PDF).  
   
An interesting exercise focusing on the Industrial Revolution (45Kb PDF). Teacher's notes (30Kb PDF) are included.
 
   
A fun practice exercise focusing on describing things using made and preposition (45Kb PDF). Teacher's notes (50Kb PDF) are included.  
   
An interesting practice exercise using vocabulary for Meetings (1.4MB PDF).  
   
Fashion Piracy (780Kb PDF)
A reading on brand counterfeits leading to exercises on the past simple and present perfect.

From Market Leader by David Cotton, David Falvey and Simon Kent
Market Leader
   
Money (480Kb PDF)
Financial vocabulary and reading on four successful investors.

From Powerhouse Intermediate by David Evans
Powerhouse Intermediate
   
Phrasal verbs - debts, profits and loans

All the words and definitions in this exercise come from the Longman Business English Dictionary. All these phrasal verbs are used to talk about money.

Longman Business English Dictionary

 
A fun practice exercise focusing on negotiations and finding a solution (135Kb PDF).  

Small Talk and Socialising (715Kb PDF)

A worksheet for Business students, looking at Small Talk and Socialising. There are also teachers' notes (825Kb PDF) for this activity.

Taken from Powerhouse Intermediate

 
The English for Work series features four books designed to activate effective communication skills in the workplace.  

UPPER INTERMEDIATE
Business English Pairwork 1

Pay Versus Benefits (350Kb PDF)
In this photocopiable role-play activity, students take the roles of personnel manager and company employee. This provides excellent practice for the language of negotiation.

From Business English Pairwork 1

   
Business English Meetings Instant Agendas

Staff Morale (190Kb PDF)
An engaging role-play activity involving a simulated management meeting to discuss problems with staff job satisfaction and morale.

From Business English Meetings Instant Agendas
   
Market Leader Upper Intermediate
Team Building (100Kb PDF)
Opening two pages of unit 8.

From Market Leader Upper Intermediate by David Cotton, David Falvey and Simon Kent

   
Powerhouse Upper Intermediate
Fat Cats (840Kb PDF)
A reading and discussion on pay for top executives.

From Powerhouse Upper Intermediate by David Evans
   
New Insights into Business
International Business Styles (1.2MB PDF)
Vocabulary and discussion on management styles around the world.

From New Insights into Business by Graham Tullis and Tonya Trappe

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