Business English Conversations/Role Plays

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Business English Conversations/Role Plays

LittleSunshine11

Business English Conversations/Role Plays

I �m looking for a book/workbook/teaching guide that is a collection of conversation starters or debate topics or role plays for my business English classes.

I own quite a lot of regular coursebooks and material when it comes to business English (I teach beginner to advanced levels) but I �m missing a compilation of only activities to get students talking in a business setting, no grammar exercises or text comprehension needed.

Do you have any good suggestions?

I love Jason Anderson �s "Role Plays for Today" but that is general English.

Thanks Heart

7 Oct 2014

ueslteacher

Don �t have a compilation of conversation starters but maybe these business English videos can help

http://legacy.australianetwork.com/businessenglish/episodes.htm

Some more links to teach small talk:

http://busyteacher.org/12326-how-to-teach-small-talk.html

http://busyteacher.org/14144-how-to-teach-small-talk-workplace-business.html

http://busyteacher.org/13093-ppt-for-high-school-students-icebreakers-and.html

http://busyteacher.org/18952-professional-small-talk-conversation-comprehension.html

Conversation starters (might not be related to business):

http://busyteacher.org/11989-10-conversation-starters-never-fail.html

http://busyteacher.org/1959-conversation-starters.html

http://busyteacher.org/19364-conversation-starters.html

http://busyteacher.org/20831-strange-conversation-starters.html

BTW you now don �t need to be logged in or registered in busyteacher in order to be able to download resources.

Here you can find different dialogues related to work. All audios have scripts which you could use as roleplays.

Also check these business English topics, there are also short audios with scripts.

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/youre-hired

7 Oct 2014

ohermann

Hi Kathleen,
Neil Wood: Business and Commerce Workshop (Oxford). This is the book I like very much. You can use different topics to start class conversation based on topic or the related text and the level is neither too easy or too difficult.

http://www.amazon.com/Workshop-Business-Commerce-Oxford/dp/0194388255

or here you can even look inside to get an idea:
https://elt.oup.com/catalogue/items/global/business_esp/workshop/?cc=global&selLanguage=en#

Oto

7 Oct 2014

Jayho

Maybe these will be of help

1. Websites with a variety of discussion starters. You could use them as is or adapt them to make your own set of questions/cards

http://teflpedia.com/Business_conversation_questions

http://www.learn-english-today.com/resources-for-teachers/conversation-topics_business.html

http://iteslj.org/questions/business.html

http://www.eslpartyland.com/teachers/conversation/cqwork.htm

http://www.eslconversationquestions.com/topics/entrepreneurs/

http://www.englishwithjo.com/business-english-ethics/

2. Business ESL sites that may have some good ideas for you

http://www.eslgold.com/business/teaching.html

http://www.eslflow.com/BusinessEnglish.html

http://www.rong-chang.com/business.htm

http://eslrightnow.com/business-english-lesson-plans/

3. ESL printable members with business conversation discussion cards

Kisdobos (e.g. apologies)

Braaijmakers (e.g. Easy Business English conversation cards)

Tiliaaa

I also have published a set of "The Art of Conversation" conversation cards. These are useful for practising general chit chat or as warmers. So far, I have uploaded parts 1 to 5.

7 Oct 2014

ttuffl

Wow Jayho, those sites you recommended are great!

7 Oct 2014

glutenfree

Have a look at this: http://www.abundancecompany.com/free_handouts.htm

8 Oct 2014

holojames

The site ESLgames.com also has a lot of conversation questions which are in the form of printable cards. You can cut them out and give piles of questions to groups of students.

26 Jul 2017