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Business

Skill:
Speaking
Time:
10 minutes
Stage:
Lead-in/Extended speaking task
Work:
Students work in pairs
Focus:
A Job Interview
Being successful in a job interview for a non-native speaker requires practice. Give them this great role play handout, where students play interviewer and interviewee for a translation job.

Skill:
Speaking
Time:
15 minutes
Stage:
Lead-in/Extended speaking task
Work:
Students work in pairs
Focus:
Acronyms
For a business-focussed practice on pronouncing and describing acronyms use this great pair work handout where students have to describe the meaning behind acronyms using defining relative pronouns.

Skill:
Speaking
Time:
15 minutes
Stage:
Vocabulary speaking practice
Work:
Students work in pairs
Focus:
Adjectives to Describe the Future
The future for companies and individuals can be rosy, promising and bleak. This great speaking activity gets students using a plethora of future adjectives by predicting the business future for a number of companies and famous business people.

Skill:
Writing
Time:
15 minutes
Stage:
Controlled grammar writing practice
Work:
Students work individually
Focus:
Adverb Intensifiers
If you're looking for language practice of intensifying adverbs try this business report writing worksheet. Students examine the figures for the insurer AIG from Autumn 2008 and write a short report using intensifying adverbs.

Skill:
Speaking
Time:
40 minutes
Stage:
Business skills practice
Work:
Students work individually then as a whole group
Focus:
Advertising Countries
A sprakling presentation task this where students get the opportunity to present the marketing campaigns of various South East Asian countries or those of their choice.

Skill:
Speaking
Time:
15 minutes
Stage:
Lead-in/Extended speaking task
Work:
Students work in pairs
Focus:
Advertising Slogans
This handout tasks students to identify the companies behind fourteen well-known advertising slogans. Once students have identified them, they analyse the nature and effectiveness of the slogans in an interesting debate.

Skill:
Speaking
Time:
20 minutes
Stage:
Vocabulary speaking practice
Work:
Students work in pairs
Focus:
Advertising Vocabulary
For the budding advertisers amongst your students, give them this; a thorough look at advertising vocabulary featuring an eclectic range of tasks and phrases such as launch a campaign, product placement, and sponsorship.

Skill:
Speaking
Time:
20 minutes
Stage:
Controlled grammar speaking practice
Work:
Students work in pairs
Focus:
Articles
Business people will need accurate articles in their working lives, so enhance their correctness with this speaking pair work handout designed for them to insert articles in article-less sentences.
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