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INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS ENGLISH - WHAT DO YOU DO? 1 OF 2
This lesson is designed to facilitate describing jobs and job responsibilities. To enable students to talk about their duties and their coworkers� duties. To discuss work and life balance. To introduce new work-related vocabulary and provide opportunity to use it. This segment has the option to be paired with a companion segment that will be upload...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 32
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SENTENCE SCRAMBLE RACE
This is the easiest class you will teach all year. This is my go-to when I have had a hectic day without a lot of prep time. This takes about 20 minutes max to get ready. You need a complete set of sentence fragment strips -- provided in this sheet -- for each team. Works best with teams of 3 or more. Have the two teams complete to match the two ha...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 27
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MODALS ILLUSTRATION
I created this as an illustration for a Business English lesson plan. But I thought it might also be useful as a standalone sheet for putting modals into visual context. I get the students to explain the sentences back to me so that I can check their understanding, then further check by having them give me new sentences using the target language. H...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 18
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INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS ENGLISH -- JOB & WORK DETAILS -- LESSON 1 OF 2
This is an updated version of a Business English lesson (part of my series) that I had previously uploaded. I found a better way to produce the timeline handout, and tried to upload an update. However, the website burped and rejected the whole thing, so I had to start over. This is Part 1 of 2. And Part 2 of 2 is already uploaded and has been out t...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 26
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HIGH INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH - GOING GLOBAL 2 - LESSON 1 OF 2
This is the first of two lessons in the 10th unit of the Business English series I�m working on. This unit introduces the structure of a contract, the items included in a contract, then facilitates discussion using new vocabulary and second conditional in the context of planning a contract for international business. This further builds on the 9th ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 19
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MINIMAL PAIRS - PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE
I teach adult learners in Beijing, China. The accent in northern China is much different than southern China (I also taught in Shanghai for 2 years.) This sheet requires Student A to read a list to Student B. Student B will write the numbers of the words that are a like in separate columns. For example: If the listening student thinks that words 1 ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 8
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INTERMEDIATE SALON -- AT THE MOVIES
This activity uses the context of a movie story line to get students thinking creatively. They work in groups of 3-5, ideally, to evaluate the parts of the movie Titanic, then use the same principles to create their own original movie story line. I hope you can use it! I used it a few nights ago with a group of 8 (two teams of 4 each). Midway throu...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 16
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PRONUNCIATION - MINIMAL PAIRS FOR ALL LEVELS
PRONUNCIATION ACTIVITY SUITABLE FOR ALL LEVELS -- This minimal pairs activity is targeted at sounds often confused by many learners, but especially those in Asia.
THE TWO SHEETS HAVE DIFFERENT WORDS. Student A reads to Student B. If Student B thinks that words 1, 3, 5 are the same, then Student B writes those in the same box together. If Stude...
Level: intermediate
Age: 3-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 52
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ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH - GETTING THE INTERVIEW - PART 2 OF 2 (RESUME WRITING)
Hi, everybody --
This is the next installment in my Business English series. This is the 2nd part of the resume writing unit. For those who may not have seen my previous business contributions, I�m constructing a Business English course that can be used for high intermediate to Advanced. (Some are just Advanced only. Like this one.) The approac...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 26
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UPPER INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS ENGLISH - GOING GLOBAL - LESSON 1 OF 2
This is the latest in my Business English series. Although I am in China, I try to make these lessons readily adaptable to other first language environments. However, this one focuses largely on modals, and modals are a tough nut to crack for most Chinese students. So this lesson is a little more "Chinese-centric" than most,but still should be adap...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 23
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BLUE COLLAR VS WHITE COLLAR - SOCIAL ISSUES & VOCAB IN CONTEXT - PART 2 OF 2
Suitable for high Intermediate to Advanced. This is a 2-part ppt (sorry, the pictures killed me) on the topic of Blue Collar Vs. White Collar jobs in America -- pros & cons of each, stigmas, history, trends. I teach in China, so there is one single slide (easily removed) tying the topic to China, bu...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 22
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BLUE COLLAR VS WHITE COLLAR - SOCIAL ISSUES & VOCAB IN CONTEXT - PART 1 OF 2
Suitable for high Intermediate to Advanced. This is a 2-part ppt (sorry, the pictures killed me) on the topic of Blue Collar Vs. White Collar jobs in America -- pros & cons of each, stigmas, history, trends. I teach in China, so there is one single slide (easily removed) tying the topic to China, bu...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 22
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DIRECTIONS, PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE, SHAPES, SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS - LESSON, REVIEW & EXERCISES
This ppt gives vocabulary for giving directions and the prepositions of place frequently used with directions, and also the phrases commonly used when asking for and giving directions. Then provides two maps for students to use for practice. Next, there�s a review of spatial relationships and shapes...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 72
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SCHEDULING - VOCABULARY & ROLE PLAY - BUSINESS CONTEXT
This ppt is a combination vocabulary introduction/review and role play lesson plan. The first part of the ppt is a review of vocabulary/useful phrases for making arrangements and confirming plans. The last few slides are included so that you can print them off and use them as handouts. (Not intended...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 34
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ART IMITATES LIFE, LIFE IMITATES ART - ADVANCED DISCUSSION - PART 2 OF 2
This is Part 2 of 2 -- Presentation of the concepts of Life Imitates Art and Art Imitates Life. First half introduces the two ideas, what each side believes, and the origins. The second half introduces assorted art pieces for description. Lastly, a group discussion activity to express their own bel...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 27
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POLITE REQUESTS -- STRUCTURE AND PRACTICE
This is a two-part activity -- The first part is this PPT. The second part is a worksheet that allows the students to continue with the grammar they have learned in the ppt. The slides present a breakdown of how polite requests are structured, and why. Then, the final slides provide an A/B convers...
Level: elementary
Age: 15-100
Downloads: 21
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VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT - STUPID CRIMINALS - PART 1 OF 2
Here�s another Vocabulary In Context presentation -- I�m not so sure why, but my Intermediate to Advanced group absolutely loves this way of learning vocabulary. I was just lucky to have stumbled on this.
In this one, I�ve taken short blurbs about stupid criminals, and used those blurbs to teach...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 75
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WEATHER, SEASONS, TIMES OF DAY, TEMPERATURES - PART 3 OF 5
First, let me apologize for there being 5 parts to this. Once again, the file limits have bitten me in the backside! This lesson is a format I�ve been using for about 4 yrs, and it has always worked well for me. I usually just do it on the board, but decided to put it into a ppt for larger classes. ...
Level: elementary
Age: 13-100
Downloads: 14
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WELCOME TO BURNING MAN -- TEACHING VOCAB VIA CONTEXT - PART 6 OF 6
First, let me apologize for there being SO many separate ppts. The file limits are harsh sometimes. I used this with a group of Chinese students to teach vocabulary in context via an introduction of Burning Man. My students really got into it and asked a ton of questions. Towards the end, I divided ...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 10
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DESCRIBING GRAPHS -- ADVANCED SPEAKING
This is a 31-slide activity about describing information presented in visual form -- bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts. There�s a brainstorming activity with later reinforcement for the vocabulary for describing the movement depicted. There�s a full explanation and illustration of the various ways...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 66
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