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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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INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS ENGLISH - AIR TRAVEL AND HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS - LESSON 1 OF 2
This is the next in my Business English series -- HOWEVER!! This can also be used in a NON-business teaching environment. It is focused more on the vocabulary aspect and less on the business aspect. The tie-in to a business context will come in the Part 2 of 2. That part should be ready within the next day or so. This lesson is extremely heavy on s...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 24
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HIGH INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH - GOING GLOBAL 2 - LESSON 2 OF 2
This is Lesson 2 of 2 of Going Global 2, the latest unit in my Business English series. This further builds on the unit, Going Global. This lesson further facilitates use of second conditional and the vocabulary of contracts and orders in the context of international trade. Activities include structuring a contract and looking at contracts structur...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 22
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INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS ENGLISH - GOING GLOBAL - LESSON 2 OF 2
This is Lesson 2 of 2 of my Business English unit "Going Global". This portion focuses on speaking practice utilizing the homework assignment from Lesson 1. This will actually end up being a 4-part section, as the next unit is schedule to be "Going Global II", and will focus on building & using some basic vocabulary for international trade, and wil...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 17
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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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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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UPPER INTERMEDIATE SALON - TRANSLATION RACE
This is a game to allow upper intermediate students to practice translation of sentences with varying sentence structures. This provides listening practice with quick thinking in the target language. Goes from native language to learned language, then from learned language to native language. Structured as a competition between minimum of two teams...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 12
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INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS ENGLISH - PRESENTING A COMPANY - LESSON 2 OF 2
This is the latest in the Business English series I am developing for use in Beijing. This lesson partners with Part 1 of 2 of the same name. Students learn to summarize material into a few concise sentences by adding information, bit by bit, to a simpler sentence. I hope you find it useful. More to come within the next few days.
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 19
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HIGH INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH - GIVING A PROJECT STATUS REPORT - LESSON 2 OF 2
This is Lesson 2 of 2 for the unit of the same name. I am creating a 126-lesson Business English course to be used in Beijing. However, most (if not all) of these materials can be modified for use in any country. This lesson facilitates speaking practice using the material taught and reinforced in Lesson 1 of 2. This lesson uses the context of a re...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 14
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MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION -- BEGINNER WORKSHEET
This activity is good for pair work or individual.
1st - Use the information provided to complete the simple A/B conversation (examples and answer key provided)
2nd - Word search that incorporates vocabulary from the 1st activity.
3rd - Unscramble the sentences and reassemble with correct grammar.
Answer keys provided for all.
Hope yo...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 36
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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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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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HIGH INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH - SPEAKING ACTIVITY - CONDITIONALS, SPECULATION, DEGREES OF CERTAINTY
This is a 13-slide activity. Premise is a dream-job opportunity. Student must select one job from several, and then explain the choice. Grammar points needed for the discussion (conditionals, speculation, degrees of certainty, negation) are reviewed in the early slides and have reinforcement activit...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 63
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HIGH INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH - CUSTOMER SERVICE AND PRODUCT QUALITY SURVEYS - LESSON 1 OF 2
I am in the process of creating a 126-lesson Business English course for use in Bejing. This is the latest in the series. However, most lessons are easily adapted for use in other countries. NOTE: This is being uploaded as a PPT simply because it was too large to be uploaded as a printable document....
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 15
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VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT -- WEATHER -- TORNADOES -- PART 1 OF 2
I don�t know about other countries, but in China we foreign teachers are forevermore tasked with "English Corner" -- it tends to be an hour-long dog & pony show about pretty much anything we choose. I often use mine to teach vocabulary in context and to do cultural exchange.
This PPT is about t...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Downloads: 22
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VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT -- WEATHER -- TORNADOES -- PART 2 OF 2
I don�t know about other countries, but in China we foreign teachers are forevermore tasked with "English Corner" -- it tends to be an hour-long dog & pony show about pretty much anything we choose. I often use mine to teach vocabulary in context and to do cultural exchange.
This PPT is about t...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Downloads: 24
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WEATHER, SEASONS, TIMES OF DAY, TEMPERATURES - PART 5 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: 19
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REVIEW OF REGULAR/IRREGULAR VERBS, AS/WHEN/WHILE, PAST PROGRESSIVE, PAST TENSE, BEGINNER, INTERMEDIATE, LOW INTERMEDIATE,
I prepared this (21 slides) as a review of the grammar points taught from Beginner to Lower Intermediate Level. These are things that all students SHOULD know and be able to accurately use by this point.
There�s an exercise to match present verbs with their irregular past tense. There�s a compl...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 36
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VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT - AGING IN PLACE
This is another of my Vocabulary In Context presentations. This one is on the topic of Aging In Place. I teach in China, and the rapidly aging population is an issue. There�s a few slides dedicated to China. HOWEVER!!! These are very easily changed and are only at the beginning. Total of 26 slides
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Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 26
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HOW TO NOT BE OFFENSIVE WHEN TRAVELING
I made this as a springboard for a conversation about cultural awareness. I teach in China and it is not uncommon for my students to have zero frame of reference for anything that is NOT Chinese. So I wanted to show the benefits of always being aware of others� frame of reference and then encourage ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 44
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