Business English activities.
Description: This project is an introduction to having a meeting, and the aim is to have each a chairperson to conduct a meeting. They must discuss what to do to survive on the island by agreeing and disagreeing about different ideas.
Aim: introducing the process of having a meeting.
Description: describing the placements of shapes, such as horizontal, vertical and diagonal.
Aim: to describe things without using gestures in situations such as on the telephone when hands cannot be relied on.
These are single questions which you can cut up and use randomly. Useful for testing the students basic comprehension.
Description: a simple "what if" set of questions.
Aim: answer questions based on imagination.
Description: more set of questions of "what if"
Aim: answer questions based on imagination.
Description: questions on solving another person's problems.
Aim: giving opinions.
Description: a simple set of questions based around the house.
Aim: test their knowledge on basic appliances.
Multiple choices and quizzes.
A series of multiple choice questions and other quizzes.
Description: multiple choice on what their classmate would in a situation, can be used in groups or as a whole class.
Aim: giving opinions on someone basing on their personality.
Description: what students think you will do in a situation.
Aim: giving opinions based on your personality.
Description: multiple choice questions based on random expressions.
Aim: to learn from guessing the answer.
Description: a set of 5 different tasks
Aim: for warm ups
Description: random tasks
Aim: for warm ups
Description: multiple choice questions of what the students prefer in a job.
Aim: giving opinions
Description: multiple choice questions of what they will do, but isn't what the would actually do in that situation.
Aim: to back up their answers by explaining why they would do it.
These projects are writing based projects where students have to use their imagination.
Description: lying is much more difficult than telling the truth and requires a lot imagination, and structuring.
Aim: to tell lies that are plausible.
Description: an introduction into describing people's appearances.
Aim: to teach people to be more political correct.
Description: some decisions are difficult to make in life and need to way up the good and the bad.
Aim: to explain the reasons for their decisions.
Activities mainly to kill time or to be used as a warm up.
Description: to guess what their partner would do, and if their partner is really telling the truth.
Aim: for warm ups.
Description: these questions all have logical answers and must be physically possible.
Aim: to give plausible answers.
Description: based on the Titanic game where one seat is available on a life boat, but they need to choose one of five evil people.
Aim: to make difficult decisions
Description: a game for quick thinking.
Aim: for warm ups
Description: a simple business English game based on the tv show.
Aim: getting students to compete with each other to simulate work projects
Description: in each group a member will describe the word without saying both the word and the two taboo words.
Aim: to describe something by it's function or its appearance.
A whole class activity for students to act out as different people. Everyone has a different surname, occupation and a motive for murdering the victim. The aim is to practice mingling, and using a common ground to break the ice.
Description: cold war spies searching for their contacts with passwords.
Aim: breaking the ice and mingling
Description: a who done it type of activity.
Aim: breaking the ice and mingling
A category of filling in the blanks to review vocabulary.
Description: to test their basic knowledge of taking a business trip.
Aim: learning from guessing..
To help students improve pronunciation without relying on phonetics.
Description: to make their voice be heard without using a microphone, an introduction to speech giving.
Aim: to read aloud without reading.
