In Company Worksheets – Upper Intermediate
Flight to Rubovia
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To raise awareness of cross-cultural issues |
| Task |
To discuss what you need to know about another country to do business there |
| Time |
45 minutes |
Patently absurd
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To practise giving presentations |
| Task |
To present a new invention using a high-impact opening |
| Time |
45-60 minutes |
Manager on the move
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To practise writing e-mails |
| Task |
To write and respond to e-mails based on a series of problems |
| Time |
45-60 minutes |
Who’s first?
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To promote discussion on the handling of e-mail and to raise awareness of register |
| Task |
To proritise a set of e-mails, discuss how to respond to them and choose a writing/roleplay follow-up |
| Time |
30-40 minutes |
Blurring and stretching
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To promote fluency in discussing products, brands and the marketing mix |
| Task |
To read about two marketing techniques and apply these to a product development task |
| Time |
60 minutes |
No U-turn?
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| Aim |
To practise the language of decision-making |
| Task |
To read a case study on a failing company and decide on a way forward |
| Time |
30-45 minutes |
Survival
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To practise the language of meetings and decision-making |
| Task |
To play a survival game |
| Time |
30-45 minutes |
Socialising with confidence
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To practise social English |
| Task |
To re-phrase negative language and roleplay awkward situations. |
| Time |
30-40 minutes |
First impressions last
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| Aim |
To practise prediction and reading for detail |
| Task |
To read a text on corporate colour and discuss colours for a range of businesses. |
| Time |
30-45 minutes |
A radical proposal
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To practise giving presentations and asking challenging questions |
| Task |
To give a presentation on a controversial scheme and ask challenging questions |
| Time |
40 minutes-1 hour |
Options and choices
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To practise the language and skills of decision-making and presenting |
| Task |
To select and present options for a new business |
| Time |
45 minutes |
Information overload
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To promote fluency in discussing time management |
| Task |
To read and discuss a text on information overload and rank ideas for managing information |
| Time |
30-45 minutes |
A meeting on meetings
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To practise the language of meetings |
| Task |
To take part in a meeting on how to improve the running of workplace meetings |
| Time |
45 minutes-1 hour |
The missing million
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To promote fluency in managing discussion |
| Task |
To hold a meeting to solve a logic puzzle |
| Time |
45 minutes-1 hour |
Effective phoning
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To practise customer-friendly phone language |
| Task |
To re-phrase unhelpful phone language and roleplay complaint situations |
| Time |
30-40 minutes |
Problems, problems
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To practise the language of dealing with problems and of making and dealing with complaints |
| Task |
To roleplay situations using given phrases |
| Time |
30-40 minutes |
Business language
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To practise the language and skills of presenting and decision-making |
| Task |
To roleplay consultants and choose the best language providers for a client. |
| Time |
1 hour |
There was a…
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To raise awareness of stress. weak forms and linking |
| Task |
To identify and practise stress, weak forms and linking in limericks |
| Time |
45 minutes |
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