With this lesson, students will build workplace vocabulary with business verbs like delegate, confirm, handle, and negotiate, while practicing useful collocations such as draw a conclusion and set a clear goal through practical speaking, writing, and fluency-based tasks.
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lesson overview
This B1–B2 ESL lesson helps learners build essential business vocabulary for effective communication in the workplace. From delegate and approve to handle, notify, and initiate, students practice verbs through matching, gap-fills, sentence work, and fluency-based speaking tasks. The lesson is available in both printable format for traditional classrooms and a digital 16:9 PDF presentation. The user-friendly digital format allows easy navigation in presentation mode with just a click of the spacebar, requiring no additional software.
Target Audience:
- Level: B1 – B2 (Intermediate to Upper-Intermediate)
- Best for: Adults, and older teens
Content Breakdown:
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- Warm-Up Activity
- Verb & Definition Matching
- Fill-in-the-Gaps
- Choose the Right Verb
- Rephrase the Sentence
- Verb + Noun Collocations
- Talk for a Minute
- Storytelling & Personal Examples
- Finish the Sentence Prompts
- Name 3 Challenge
- Partner Questions
HOMEWORK (Extra Language Immersion):
Reading and Quiz:
Read an article on task delegation and complete a multiple-choice quiz to reinforce key ideas.