In Company Worksheets – Pre-intermediate
Making money
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| Student’s Worksheet |
Teacher’s Notes |
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| Aim |
To practise using money verbs and financial vocabulary |
| Task |
To roleplay a meeting between a client and a financial advisor |
| Time |
30 minutes |
The idea is easy…
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| Student’s Worksheet |
Teacher’s Notes |
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| Aim |
To practise using the Present Perfect and the Past Simple, and the vocabulary of loans and finance |
| Task |
To roleplay a meeting between a bank manager and an entrepreneur asking for a bank loan to develop and market a new invention |
| Time |
40 minutes |
Storytelling
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| Student’s Worksheet |
Teacher’s Notes |
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| Aim |
To practise telling stories |
| Task |
To read and order a gapped story, complete the gaps with linking words, then build up an anecdote from prompts |
| Time |
45 minutes |
Get it write!
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| Student’s Worksheet |
Teacher’s Notes |
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| Aim |
To promote accuracy |
| Task |
To identify and correct common grammar and spelling mistakes in a job application letter |
| Time |
30 minutes |
The rise and fall of Enron
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| Student’s Worksheet |
Teacher’s Notes |
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| Aim |
To practise reading for detail |
| Task |
To read and order a jumbled text about the history of Enron, then discuss the causes of the company’s downfall |
| Time |
40 minutes |
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Did you, really?
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| Student’s Worksheet |
Teacher’s Notes |
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| Aim |
To practise keeping a conversation going |
| Task |
To ask five follow-up questions to an initial question and react with interest to each response |
| Time |
30 minutes |
Telephone trouble
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| Student’s Worksheet |
Teacher’s Notes |
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| Aim |
To practise the language of telephoning |
| Task |
To prioritise eight phone messages, and then roleplay returning the most important messages |
| Time |
30 minutes |
Could you tell me…?
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| Student’s Worksheet |
Teacher’s Notes |
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| Aim |
To practise forming indirect and direct questions |
| Task |
To play a board game in which students ask and answer questions |
| Time |
30 minutes |
Working style
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| Student’s Worksheet |
Teacher’s Notes |
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| Aim |
To promote discussion about an individual’s working style |
| Task |
To complete a questionnaire about attitudes to work and to find out about your working style |
| Time |
25 minutes |
Ideal company
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| Student’s Worksheet |
Teacher’s Notes |
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| Aim |
To promote discussion about ideal companies and bosses, and to practise adverbs of frequency |
| Task |
To discuss the importance of different criteria for an ideal company and write sentences to describe the ideal boss |
| Time |
40 minutes |
Answering machine
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| Student’s Worksheet |
Teacher’s Notes |
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| Aim |
To practise saying numbers, times and dates and e-mail addresses, and to practise taking notes |
| Task |
To listen to ‘answering machine’ and take notes on the main points |
| Time |
30 minutes |
60-second pitch
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| Student’s Worksheet |
Teacher’s Notes |
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| Aim |
To practise collocations and common word parterships |
| Task |
To order the transcript of a 60-second pitch, and then make a 60-second pitch |
| Time |
30 minutes |
That’s not right!
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| Student’s Worksheet |
Teacher’s Notes |
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| Aim |
To practise describing food and drink |
| Task |
To choose the correct sentence in a pair to produce a three-stage business lunch conversation |
| Time |
30 minutes |
What if…?
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| Student’s Worksheet |
Teacher’s Notes |
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| Aim |
To practise conditionals with future reference by discussing hypothetical situations about work |
| Task |
To work in small groups taking it in turns to ask conditional questions from prompts for hypothetical or imaginary situations and then discuss the answers |
| Time |
30 minutes |
A – Z race
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| Student’s Worksheet |
Teacher’s Notes |
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| Aim |
To revise grammar from In Company Pre-intermediate Student’s Book |
| Task |
To play a timed team game identifying and correcting grammar mistakes in 26 sentences |
| Time |
40 minutes |
How wrong can you be?
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| Student’s Worksheet |
Teacher’s Notes |
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| Aim |
To practise will for prediction |
| Task |
To complete famous predictions with will and an appropriate verb and match them to who said them. |
| Time |
30 minutes |
But you said…!
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| Student’s Worksheet |
Teacher’s Notes |
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| Aim |
To practise reported speech |
| Task |
To roleplay a conversation between a builder and a dissatisfied client |
| Time |
30 minutes |
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Say something!
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| Student’s Worksheet |
Teacher’s Notes |
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| Aim |
To learn the difference between say, tell, speak, talk and discuss, and some common expressions with say, tell, speak talk and give. |
| Task |
To complete gapped sentences and questions with say, tell, talk, speak or give, then discuss questions with a partner. |
| Time |
30 minutes |
Things to do
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| Student’s Worksheet |
Teacher’s Notes |
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| Aim |
To practise making requests and saying yes and no politely |
| Task |
To roleplay making last minute preparations for a business trip |
| Time |
40 minutes |
How was your trip?
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| Student’s Worksheet |
Teacher’s Notes |
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| Aim |
To practise vocabulary relating to business trips, and learn phrases with the word trip |
| Task |
To talk about a business trip |
| Time |
35 minutes |
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