Summary
This downloadable PDF lesson plan for English teachers provides ESL class material for B1 students on discussing work projects. This business English lesson focuses on vocabulary and grammar for giving professional status updates in a meeting.
This practical lesson plan equips students with the language for project management updates. Activities begin with a warm-up discussion and a vocabulary matching task. Students then complete a listening gap-fill about a project update, read a short article, and study useful phrases for meetings. The lesson culminates in a collaborative role-play where students simulate a weekly project check-in, applying the language they have learned in a realistic business context.
Activities
- Warm-up and vocabulary: Students start by discussing long-term projects and then learn key vocabulary like "oversee" and "launch strategy" to build their professional lexicon.
- Listening and grammar practice: The lesson includes a listening exercise where students complete a project status update, training their ears for language used in a business context.
- Reading and speaking: Learners solidify their understanding through a reading gap-fill before participating in a final role-play where they simulate a project meeting using the target language.
Vocabulary focus
The vocabulary section introduces essential terms for discussing work projects. Students will learn and practice words and phrases such as "to oversee," "launch strategy," "client feedback," "to stay on track," "to put in extra hours," and the idiom "hard work pays off," preparing them for professional workplace conversations.
Grammar focus
The main grammar point is the present perfect continuous (have/has been + -ing). The lesson explains how this tense is used to describe actions that started in the past and are still ongoing, which is perfect for describing progress on long projects. Students practice this structure through controlled sentence completion and reading exercises.
