1. Copy one handout for each pair of students, and cut the sheets in two.

2. Put the students into pairs, and distribute a half handout to each individual student.

3. Focus students' attention on the instructions and the hierarchical structure given on the sheet. Explain that learners need to establish a hierarchy of where the company departments given are located. Encourage them to justify their responses and, if necessary, debunk the pyramid model and describe other company structures. Get them to continue their descriptions by describing their own company's structure.

4. Allow students around ten minutes or until the conversation dies down to outline the company structures.

5. Finally, elicit responses from some of the students and draw to their attention any appropriate vocabulary or serious language mistakes.