Business English and ESP Games and Worksheets
Aimed to be fun enough and serious enough to match all your business classes, with lots of emphasis on the emailing and telephoning that students usually need.
As well as the TEFLtastic worksheets below, you might also want to look at some of my worksheets elsewhere:
On the Macmillan website onestopenglish (membership needed):
And in the Usingenglish lesson plans and worksheets section:
Words that can and cannot be shortened
Business and Technical English- Easily Confused Words
Business English Present Continuous Sounds and Mimes
Office vocab compound nouns stress
Business English Silent Letters and Syllables
The language of trends spot the difference pairwork
Number practice idioms and proverbs
Business English Xmas cards do’s and don’ts- Imperatives for advice and cultural information
Jobs compound nouns matching pairwork dictation
The language of interrupting- game for business meetings and negotiations
Personality gender guessing game- describing people and problem solving discussion for HR and management
How British is your Financial English? – British and American English business English vocab and speaking
Presentations- Advice on cultural differences- For meetings in English, with lots of different sentence stems for giving advice
Business English going to mimes- TPR worksheet with contrast between “going to” and “will”
Needs Analysis Level check interview form- can be used by teachers or as a pairwork needs analysis activity. A much simplified and improved version of the form that I introduced to two schools I worked in, and that the onestopenglish editor called “the most thorough I have ever seen”
Business English advice guessing game- with presentation and practice of “make” and “do”
Business writing genres comparative adjectives guessing game- with practice of common confusions like “memo”/ “note”
Business English first lesson questions- Graded questions to find the level and needs of Business and ESP students
Adverbs of frequency gender policy discussion- Present Simple speaking with an easy way to discuss sexual harassment and discrimination at work
Business English Alibi game- A business and ESP version of the classic speaking game for Past Simple, Past Continuous and Past Perfect practice
Gender roles case studies- with language of strong and mild agreement and disagreement
Unlike the lovely PDF files that the technical bods have converted the worksheets above into, some of the TEFLtastic worksheets from other parts of the site below will need to be copied and pasted into Word if you want them to look nice:
Hotel negotiations roleplay cards
Marketing vocabulary and discussion questions
Britain or America? Business and social manners (with language of generalisation)
British and American business etiquette modals
The emailing games and worksheets section
The telephoning games and worksheets section
The Technical English and numbers practice games and worksheets section
The Medical and Pharmaceutical English section
And then there are all these other Business English worksheets that you probably came onto this page to see: