Business English needs analysis ranking task

With a partner, rank the things below from number 1 (the most important thing to do in the classroom) to number 10 (the least important thing). Ø

Practising emailing

Practising telephoning

Role-playing business meetings

Practising how to be polite in English

Learning idiomatic Business English phrases (ones that native speakers and newspapers use)

Learning how to explain numbers and graphs

Practising giving business presentations

Studying grammar that comes up in typical business communications (e.g. Present Continuous for making arrangements)

Studying functional language that comes up in typical business communications (e.g. requests, offers, apologies, complaints)

When you have agreed, join with another team and negotiate a new jointly agreed list

Are there any other important things you want to do in class or unimportant things you want to avoid that aren’t in the list above?

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