Master causative have and get something done with this B1-B2 Business English lesson plan on causative structures and professional vocabulary, built around a corporate update about a company that has its servers inspected, its accounts audited and its marketing collateral printed by outside specialists.
Main objectives of this material
- Develop practical vocabulary for work routines and a busy week at work, including commute, work from home, be in charge of, deal with, cover for someone, be off sick, catch up on and run late, practised through a calendar comparison, a gap-fill email, flashcards and speaking cards.
- Strengthen reading and speaking skills by comparing Maya’s two weekly calendars to find seven differences, reading a 160-word coffee-machine dialogue between Maya and a new colleague, and interviewing a partner with six “What’s different this week?” questions about commuting, working from home and current projects.
- Learn and practise the Present Simple for routines and the Present Continuous for now and temporary situations, using time words such as usually, these days and at the moment, and avoid the state verb trap (I know, not I’m knowing) with know, need, like and belong.
What students are going to cover
In this lesson, students will explore the difference between what people normally do and what is happening right now by comparing two calendars of Maya, a project manager whose week changes when a colleague is off sick and she is in charge of a conference. They build vocabulary related to commuting, working from home and covering for colleagues, notice the two tenses in a short dialogue, and complete a rule table for the Present Simple vs Present Continuous. Students sort nine sentences into routine, temporary or right now, complete a seven-item gap-fill, correct eight sentences in a state verb task, and fix two team-chat statuses with four mistakes each. The lesson ends with “The Status Update”, a one-minute speaking task in which students tell a new manager what they usually do and what they are working on at the moment. The package includes a teacher version with answers, an interactive worksheet, slides, homework with a “My two weeks” writing task, flashcards and speaking cards. By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to describe their routines with the Present Simple, talk about temporary changes with the Present Continuous, and give a clear one-minute status update.
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