Upper Intermediate

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    Emailing 1

    Students gain an introduction to emailing and practise using the present continuous for arrangements.

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    Lesson Share: Henry Ford

    A gap-fill activity to exchange information about the life of Henry Ford and to complete a text by asking questions.

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    Why did they do that?

    A reading and speaking activity to match up questions and answers on a set of cards.

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    What happened?

    A groupwork activity to speculate about the possible causes of a number of business situations.

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    Virus

    A reading and speaking activity to act out a negotiation based on a complaint.

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    Verbs and nouns

    A groupwork activity to match up the first and second halves of a set of sentences.

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    Use of English

    A speaking activity to interview fellow students about their English language needs.

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    The years ahead

    A speaking activity to make and discuss predictions about the future.

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    The top 5 motivators

    A reading and speaking activity to discuss what motivates people at work.

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    The test

    A writing and speaking activity to write questions and use them to test each other’s English.

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    The five senses

    A group speaking activity to talk about marketing products and give product presentations.

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    The credit line

    A reading and speaking activity to act out a meeting between a bank manager and a customer.

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    The campaign

    A groupwork activity to define the target market for a product and design an advertisement.

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    Selling English

    An information exchange activity to act out a series of sales visits then report on them.

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    Reprimands

    A reading and speaking activity to act out situations in which reprimands are given ineffectively and then to discuss what went wrong.

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    Quotations

    A speaking activity to match the halves of a set of business-related quotations.

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    Quiz

    A pair and groupwork activity to answer a quiz about economics and then write a quiz.

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    Puzzles

    A pairwork reading and speaking activity to solve logic puzzles.

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    Problems

    A groupwork activity to discuss a set of business-world problems and suggest solutions to them.

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    Press conference

    A reading and speaking activity to act out a press conference related to a dangerous product.