In Company Worksheets – Intermediate
Employees’ centre
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To practise using presentation techniques for impact and persuasion |
| Task |
To brainstorm, prepare and deliver a presentation |
| Time |
40 minutes-1 hour |
Spam
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To practise reading for detail and giving opinions |
| Task |
To complete a cloze text about spam and then discuss spamming and other ways of marketing a product |
| Time |
40 minutes |
A business trip
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To practise wrinting e-mails |
| Task |
To plan a (real or imaginary) business trip by e-mail and perform a roleplay based on the situation |
| Time |
40 minutes |
Small talk
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To practise expressions used in making small talk |
| Task |
To categorise expressions used in making small talk and use them in a roleplay |
| Time |
30 minutes |
What the CEO said
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To promote discussion on aspects of running a business |
| Task |
To give one’s views on aspects of running a business and evaluate quotations from experienced business people |
| Time |
35 minutes |
Making decisions
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To practise idiomatic expressions relating to decision-making |
| Task |
To complete sentences with idiomatic expressions relating to decision-making and use them to talk about one’s own experiences |
| Time |
30 minutes |
Calculated guess
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To practise collocations |
| Task |
To play a team game assigning verbs to the nouns they collocate with |
| Time |
30 minutes |
Mini-negotiations
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To address a business problem and to practise writing e-mails. |
| Task |
To put a text in order and to write e-mails about a particular problem from different perspectives |
| Time |
45-50 minutes |
A quality problem
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To address a business problem and to practise writing e-mails. |
| Task |
To put a text in order and to write e-mails about a particular problem from different perspectives |
| Time |
45-50 minutes |
Boss or Big Brother?
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To practise the language of agreement, disagreement and neutrality |
| Task |
To complete a cloze text and discuss the ideas in it |
| Time |
30-40 minutes |
Piracy
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To practise reading for detail and to practise passives |
| Task |
To read statistics and a text on piracy, then reconstruct passive sentences from the text |
| Time |
45-50 minutes |
Cultural differences
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To practise the language and skills of discussion |
| Task |
To categorise cultural traits in a business context |
| Time |
45 minutes |
Consultancy team
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To practise the language of suggestions and opinions |
| Task |
To solve the problem of inappropriate behaviour in meetings. |
| Time |
1 hour |
Dragon boat racing
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To practise reading for detail and to practise conditionals (past reference) |
| Task |
To read a story, put in order and discuss the problem-solving technique used in the story |
| Time |
40 minutes |
Selling the company
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To raise awareness of appropriate language language for a formal letter |
| Task |
To select appropriate expressions and use them to write a formal letter |
| Time |
45 minutes |
Business behaviour
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To promote discussion on cultural differences in the business world |
| Task |
To assess the importance of specific behaviour and explain cultural characteristics in the business world |
| Time |
30 minutes |
The good consultant
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| Student’s Worksheet |
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| Aim |
To promote discussion on the role of business consultants and to practise using modal verbs |
| Task |
To read a story and discuss the role of business consultants |
| Time |
35-45 minutes |
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