Skills by Theme
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ArticleBusiness skills bank: Preparing for a first meeting: Part 1
A lesson exploring and reviewing good meetings practice and procedure through brainstorming sessions and interviews.
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Business skills bank: Managing international meetings
Sara Helm introduces a new series on meetings skills with an article highlighting some of the challenges faced by participants in multinational and multilingual meetings.
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Socializing in English
In this basic business skills lesson by Sara Helm, students use a modal verb wheel to create sentences and practise functional dialogues they can use in a social context.
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Business skills bank: Preparing for a first meeting: Part 2
A lesson to help review and practise language for leading and participating in meetings.
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Business skills bank: Preparing for a first meeting: Part 3
In this lesson students participate in a business meeting, while the teacher observes and takes notes for a performance review.
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Business skills bank: Preparing for a first meeting: Part 4
In this lesson, students carry out a second (and perfect) meeting in order to consolidate performance in leading and participating in meetings.
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Business Skills Bank: Giving Presentations
This Business Skills lesson plan presents common features of presentations and practises useful language.
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Telephoning 1
Students gain an introduction to telephoning and vocabulary associated with telephoning.