Generational change. Leadership & teamwork. Statistics. Pay. Unemployment & job hunting. Work-life balance & stress. TED Michael C. Bush: This is what makes employees happy at work. TED The Way We Work. Eslbrains - Why you will fail to have a great career. This lesson focuses on pursuing career and passions. It’s based on TED Talk by Larry Smith titled “Why you will fail to have a great career”. In the course of the lesson, students will learn collocations with the word career, discuss how to have a successful work-life balance and watch an amusing speech. The warm-up part consists of three tasks. The first one teaches Ss various career collocations and their meanings, what follows is a short speaking task during which Ss will actively use new phrases. The third task is about cooperating and negotiating a shared result. The lesson is designed for working adults or Human Resources specialists.
Like this: Like Loading... Other posts The single biggest reason why startups succeed. Eslbrains - The Benefits of Paternity Leave. The lesson plan deals with a very up-to-date issue which raises a lot of doubts, questions and controversies, namely paternity leave. We created this lesson plan based on a video recommended by one of our Patrons and we hope that it will be a great topic for you to touch on with your students-parents. It’s definitely a great debate option to use with your students around Father’s Day. Vocabulary The lesson plan starts with an exercise which includes a list of chores that all of us do at home. Eslbrains - How to be more productive at work. This productivity lesson plan is based on two short videos in which a journalist and book writer Charles Duhigg presents his ideas for boosting work productivity.
The worksheet consists of many different exercises that will make your students speak a lot, learn some vocabulary and practise setting SMART goals. The lesson plan starts with two speaking warm-up activities. First, students need to read some quotes connected with work productivity and discuss whether they agree or disagree with them, and of course explain their opinion. Then, in the next task they have a list of factors and they need to talk about the ones that badly affect their work productivity. Before watching videos, students do one more task, that is they have to complete a few sentences with correct prepositions to create such phrases as: pay attention to, feel in control, keep track of, etc.
Students watch the first video which is about 5 tips for being more productive. Eslbrains - Unconventional career advice. This Business English lesson plan focuses on career advice. It has been designed for career counselors, but it worked great both with HR people and adult professionals (if you want to do this with young adults without working experience, you must adapt the discussion section). The main point of the lesson is a video by Professor Scott Galloway of NYU who gives “unsolicited (and unconventional) career advice”. This ESL worksheet also includes a grammar point on giving advice using various structures. This Business English lesson plan is divided into three parts: a warm-up speaking task, grammar and video comprehension. First, students need to discuss various aspects that may influence career.
The next page focuses on the video. All in all, the lesson should take around 60 minutes, including the 6-minute video, depending on how much time you allocate to speaking activities. Like this: Like Loading... Other posts Questions no one knows the answers to. Eslbrains - Modern workplace amenities. Our newest Business English lesson plan looks at the modern office spaces and the cool amenities there are in the office right now.
Your students will discover Facebook’s London office and what it looks like. They’ll also have a chance to discuss whether those extra facilities boost work efficiency, which ones are actually practical and which just look nice on paper. The aim of the lesson is to practise speaking skills with a work-related topic, but the worksheet also includes listening comprehension and vocabulary tasks. The worksheet starts with two warm-up tasks that introduce the topic but also get your students talking and practising their speaking skills. In the first one, they need to read and exchange their opinions about some quotes related to the workspace. Before watching the video, ask your students whether they have seen or heard what the office space of big tech companies look like. Exercise 3 is a listening comprehension task.
Eslbrains - Telephone phobia (Telephone English phrases) In this lesson, we want to focus on telephoning skills as these are the life skills our students often struggle with, but they need them very much when they use English.
We also look at the phenomenon of telephone phobia (aka phone anxiety) which is an issue many people need to deal with and may especially be valid for learners of foreign languages. On top of that, our lesson plan includes a set of common telephone English phrases and of course a couple of roleplays to practise them. Warm-up The lesson starts with a couple of standard questions related to telephoning to introduce the topic and get students engaged. The last question concerns phone anxiety and is related to the video. Video – Phone Anxiety The video section includes 3 parts: vocabulary (phrasal verbs), video, discussion. The last part is a discussion. The Employment – Film English. This ELT lesson plan is designed around a short film by Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso and the themes of jobs and employment.
Students revise job vocabulary, talk about jobs and employment, and watch and discuss a short film about employment. Step 1.