This is a collection of free, printable worksheets for teaching EAL students language business English. There are role-plays, information gaps, vocabulary worksheets and much more!
Lanternfish ESL Home Communication Activities Worksheet Collections Survival EnglishA one-hour information gap activity where students interview each other about their skills and qualifications. This business English information gap activity covers a lot of useful vocabulary for working environments, yet grammatically it should not be too challenging for even beginner/intermediate classes.
A one hour job fair role-play where students are divided into employers and job seekers. The job seekers will go from employer to employer asking about job benefits and the employers in turn will ask about job qualifications.
A one hour banking role-play that explores the expressions needed to do five basic transactions at a bank: deposit money, withdraw money, cash checks, exchange currency, and pay bills. Students are divided into bank tellers and bank clients. Bank clients approach tellers and conduct banking transactions.
A two hour banking role-play where students are divided into bankers and clients. The bankers will explain finacial products such as mortgages and credit cards. Then the bankers will create banking profiles for their clients by asking questions about income and debt. Lost of good finacial vocabulary worksheets for this lesson plan.
In this business telephone English role-play. Clients call the 'Stellar Corporation' looking for a manager, Mary Jenkins. Mary is out so clients have to leave a message with the secretary.
Students have to summarize an annual report of some corporate indicator such as profit, revenue, sales, or costs to other students in this making reports role-play. They also have to explain the reasons why the corporate indicators changed.
This cloze activity reviews language that can be used to describe how profits, costs, revenue or other economic indicators are changing over time. Students describe the change while examing a graph using vocabulary such as 'increased dramatically, fluctuated wildly, peaked, dipped, rose, and dropped.
This business role-play helps students practice using reported speech to relay news to coworkers. In addition, the students practice stating how real outcomes were different from expecations.
This worksheet shows how students can use noun clauses to report the news for a business. Students read sentences about a firm and decide of that is good news or bad news.
This vocabulary worksheet demonstrates how to talk about changes in a firm.
Students decide how statements about a company will impact a firm's stock listing. Students have to consider expectations.
Students practice using the structures due to and because of to describe why changes occurred in a company.
This business role-play helps students practice using relative clauses to describe people. The role-play will also give students a lot of chances to use basic workplace expressions such as sending a fax, talking to a client, or meeting with the boss.
This business role-play helps students practice introducing their firms using phrases such as specialize in, based in, have offices in.
Students relay telephone messages in this business information gap.
This information gap students report stock price changes and rumor about companies.
Student's relay newspaper headlines about future events related to business. (Government to Cut Taxes--> The government is going to cut taxes.)
In this information gap, students relay information about when a report is needed and why.
In this information gap, students relay information about when a report is needed and why. This is the easy version.
Students arrange their schedules so that they can meet to discuss some important issues.
Students have to compare third quarter figures with second quarter figures and then make a year-on-year comparison.