Business English Curriculum
A full business English curriculum covering language and skills for success in professional settings
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The Off2Class Business English Curriculum is distinct from the general English covered in the Step-by-Step Curriculum and covers the specialized language and communication skills used in professional and corporate settings. It includes vocabulary, phrases, and writing styles needed for business interactions such as meetings, presentations, negotiations, emails, and reports.
With a total of 160 lessons across 40 thematic units, the Off2Class Business English Curriculum is designed to take students all the way from a pre-intermediate level (CEFR B1, WIDA 3.0 Developing) to an advanced level (CEFR C1, WIDA 6.0 Reaching), developing the full range of language, knowledge, and skills necessary for them to thrive in any business-related setting.
Table of contents
Target students
These lessons are ideal for all students who need to study English for professional or work-related purposes, including but not limited to:
- Professionals using English at work: Employees, managers, and business owners will develop confidence and proficiency in navigating effectively through meetings, emails, presentations, negotiations, and other professional situations.
- Jobseekers: Individuals looking for employment opportunities who need to improve their English for job interviews, applications, and workplace communication. Business English proficiency can open doors and provide opportunities for career development.
- High school and university students: Students currently completing their studies and preparing to enter the workforce will benefit greatly from the workplace-focused language and skills covered in these lessons.
Key features
Lessons in the Business English Curriculum are divided into 40 units of 4 lessons, with 10 units at each proficiency level. These units all include:
- Themes: Each unit is built around one business-related theme. Students explore this theme over the 4 lessons of the unit, developing a range of relevant language skills.
- Practical skills focus: Lessons focus on building practical language and skills in a structured way to prepare students for navigating business situations in English.
- Case Studies: The final lesson of each unit is a Case Study, which applies the language and skills developed in previous lessons to a business scenario. These Case Study lessons allow students to apply what they have learned to real-life situations they will face outside of the classroom.
- Assessments: Homework at the end of each lesson and unit checks after every unit to assess progress and identify gaps.
Lesson Details & Links
The unit, lesson name (with link), and objectives are listed below for a quick overview of each lesson. Click a lesson name to launch it directly from this article. To see a spreadsheet of all Off2Class lessons, click here.
| Unit | Lesson & Link | Objectives |
| 1 - Job Role and Responsibilities | BUS.B1.1.1 | Learn to describe job roles and responsibilities. Learn to use i>have to/i>, and i>must/i>, positive and negative. |
| 1 - Job Role and Responsibilities | BUS.B1.1.2 | Learn the present perfect and past simple to discuss past and present job roles and responsibilities. Learn pronunciation of -ed in past simple. |
| 1 - Job Role and Responsibilities | BUS.B1.1.3 | Expand language to talk about job roles and responsibilities. Learn preposition combinations with work (for, in, as). |
| 1 - Job Role and Responsibilities | BUS.B1.1.4 | A recruitment agency needs to match potential candidates to dream jobs. |
| 2 - Around the Office | BUS.B1.2.1 | Learn language that is common in an office setting. Review the present simple, present continuous, adverbs of time and frequency and prepositions of place. |
| 2 - Around the Office | BUS.B1.2.2 | Engage in conversations with co-workers about work-related and non-work related topics. Learn differences in usage between past continuous and past simple. |
| 2 - Around the Office | BUS.B1.2.3 | Understand common email phrases. Learn to use appropriate openings and endings in simple informal emails. |
| 2 - Around the Office | BUS.B1.2.4 | A growing startup company needs to design a system to support its new employees during their first week. |
| 3 - Companies and Products | BUS.B1.3.1 | Learn defining relative clauses, relative pronouns and adverbs to describe companies. |
| 3 - Companies and Products | BUS.B1.3.2 | Learn the passive present simple and passive past simple to describe products and services. |
| 3 - Companies and Products | BUS.B1.3.3 | Review Yes / No and Wh- questions. |
| 3 - Companies and Products | BUS.B1.3.4 | A retail store needs to decide which products to sell in its store. |
| 4 - Business Meetings | BUS.B1.4.1 | Learn language related to business meetings. Review the present simple, past simple and future simple. Learn time phrases. |
| 4 - Business Meetings | BUS.B1.4.2 | Learn uses of to + infinitive. Learn language to introduce a meeting agenda and write a follow-up email. Review cardinal numbers to list items on an agenda. |
| 4 - Business Meetings | BUS.B1.4.3 | Learn language to ask for opinions, give opinions, and respond to opinions clearly. Learn me too and me neither to show agreement. Learn to disagree or agree politely. |
| 4 - Business Meetings | BUS.B1.4.4 | A chain of mid-priced hotels needs to make some changes to stay competitive. |
| 5 - Business Travel | BUS.B1.5.1 | Learn language related to business travel. Learn the present continuous and going to for future arrangements. (B1.28.1) Learn to write dates. |
| 5 - Business Travel | BUS.B1.5.2 | Learn to make decisions at the moment using will and won't. |
| 5 - Business Travel | BUS.B1.5.3 | Learn to ask for information related to travel (via telephone and email). Learn prepositions of place to give directions. |
| 5 - Business Travel | BUS.B1.5.4 | A travel agent needs to plan a business trip for executives with different preferences. |
| 6 - Business Networking | BUS.B1.6.1 | Learn to introduce oneself and someone else and engage in small talk. Learn present perfect and compare with past simple. |
| 6 - Business Networking | BUS.B1.6.2 | Learn reported speech, including backshifting and changing pronouns and differences between say and tell |
| 6 - Business Networking | BUS.B1.6.3 | Learn to show interest using question tags and other expressions. Learn to close a conversation and write a follow-up email |
| 6 - Business Networking | BUS.B1.6.4 | An appointment-scheduling app needs to expand its network of business connections. |
| 7 - Cultural Awareness | BUS.B1.7.1 | Learn language to discuss cultural business norms. Review use of comparatives and superlatives. |
| 7 - Cultural Awareness | BUS.B1.7.2 | Learn and review used to. Learn be used to and get used to discuss cultural business experiences. |
| 7 - Cultural Awareness | BUS.B1.7.3 | Learn language for business presentations, including introducing a topic, transitioning with linking words and closing the presentation. |
| 7 - Cultural Awareness | BUS.B1.7.4 | A business executive needs to prepare his colleagues to conduct business in a country with an unfamiliar business culture. |
| 8 - Customer Service | BUS.B1.8.1 | Learn language used in customer service. Learn too and not enough to describe customer problems. |
| 8 - Customer Service | BUS.B1.8.2 | Learn basic verbs followed by infinitives or gerunds. Review basic telephoning language used in customer service. Learn language to exchange goods, and get a refund. |
| 8 - Customer Service | BUS.B1.8.3 | Learn to respond appropriately to a customer or client complaint (including apologizing and suggesting solutions). Learn to make and accept excuses. |
| 8 - Customer Service | BUS.B1.8.4 | The customer service team at a national appliance manufacturer needs to resolve issues with unhappy customers. Learn to write an apology email. Learn to differentiate between formal and informal language. |
| 9 - Negotiations | BUS.B1.9.1 | Learn to conduct simple transactions. Learn the first conditional. Learn to state numbers, decimals and percentages. |
| 9 - Negotiations | BUS.B1.9.2 | Review the first conditional. Learn the second conditional. Learn to make concessions, add conditions, agree and disagree in a negotiation. |
| 9 - Negotiations | BUS.B1.9.3 | Use linking words for addition and contrast. |
| 9 - Negotiations | BUS.B1.9.4 | Negotiate a deal between a supplier and a buyer at a popular neighborhood grocery store. |
| 10 - Workplace problems | BUS.B1.10.1 | Learn language to describe workplace problems. Learn to express reason, result and purpose. |
| 10 - Workplace problems | BUS.B1.10.2 | Learn imperative and should to give advice about workplace problems. Learn to ask for and give advice. |
| 10 - Workplace problems | BUS.B1.10.3 | Learn ways to make an offer or invitation and accept or decline politely. |
| 10 - Workplace Problems | BUS.B1.10.4 | Employees at a content marketing agency need help to solve several workplace problems. |
| 11 - Inside an Organization | BUS.B1.11.1 | Learn language related to functions and roles within an organization and different types of industries. Review passive voice, various tenses. |
| 11 - Inside an Organization | BUS.B1.11.2 | Describe a company culture. Review determiners (articles, demonstratives, quantifiers). |
| 11 - Inside an Organization | BUS.B1.11.3 | Learn helpful language to ask for feedback and to give feedback. |
| 11 - Inside an Organization | BUS.B1.11.4 | A data science company needs to make some changes to improve the company culture. |
| 12 - Business Leadership | BUS.B1.12.1 | Learn verb + preposition combinations. Learn compound adjectives to describe different characteristics of leaders. |
| 12 - Business Leadership | BUS.B1.12.2 | Learn to support an argument giving reasons and examples. |
| 12 - Business Leadership | BUS.B1.12.3 | Learn to speak politely by rephrasing demands as questions, using indirect questions, qualifiers and modal verbs to soften tone. Learn to use the past continuous to form a polite indirect question. |
| 12 - Business Leadership | BUS.B1.12.4 | A business needs to hire a People Operations Manager who will improve employee retention. |
| 13 - Internal Communication | BUS.B1.13.1 | Learn reported speech questions. Learn to use adjectives followed by infinitives to report news. |
| 13 - Internal Communication | BUS.B1.13.2 | Expand understanding of reported speech and learn various reporting verbs and patterns. Learn the language used in an internal company newsletter. |
| 13 - Internal Communication | BUS.B1.13.3 | Learn to clarify a miscommunication. Learn to politely check information using echo questions. |
| 13 - Internal Communication | BUS.B1.13.4 | A HR manager needs to communicate some difficult messages to the staff at a mid-sized tech company. |
| 14 - Job Satisfaction | BUS.B1.14.1 | Review narrative tenses (past simple, past continuous, and past perfect) and time indicators. Learn language related to human resources and work-life balance. Learn different uses of get. |
| 14 - Job Satisfaction | BUS.B1.14.2 | Review used to, anymore, any longer and still. (B1.39.2) Learn collocations with have, make, get, take and do. |
| 14 - Job Satisfaction | BUS.B1.14.3 | Learn different ways to make make and respond to recommendations and suggestions. Practice using question tags to make suggestions. |
| 14 - Job Satisfaction | BUS.B1.14.4 | A social media marketing company needs a plan to improve employee morale. |
| 15 - Job Experience | BUS.B1.15.1 | Learn language used in job advertisements. Review and expand the use of the present perfect simple and present perfect continuous to talk about job experiences. Learn the difference between career, job, and work. |
| 15 - Job Experience | BUS.B1.15.2 | Learn to describe job skills and abilities. Learn to use intensifiers to provide emphasis. |
| 15 - Job Experience | BUS.B1.15.3 | Review of present, past, and future simple tense. Learn verbs used to discuss past job experiences and future goals. |
| 15 - Job Experience | BUS.B1.15.4 | An international outdoor gear company needs a new regional sales manager to increase its sales in South America. |
| 16 - Technology and Innovation | BUS.B1.16.1 | Understand language related to IT and simple and complex technical instructions. Learn modals of deduction. |
| 16 - Technology and Innovation | BUS.B1.16.2 | Expand on comparatives and superlatives for adjectives and adverbs to talk about innovation and new ideas. Learn just, nearly, almost, (not) as...as... comparisons. |
| 16 - Technology and Innovation | BUS.B1.16.3 | Learn to talk about tech solutions. Learn language used to invite and respond to questions at the end of a presentation. |
| 16 - Technology and Innovation | BUS.B1.16.4 | The HR department at a marketing agency needs to decide whether to use AI to assist with staffing and performance management. |
| 17 - Sales | BUS.B1.17.1 | Learn language used in sales. Learn can and could for ability and be able to / manage to [do something]. Learn gradable and extreme adjectives. |
| 17 - Sales | BUS.B1.17.2 | Learn to negotiate a change in price and simple terms and conditions. Review use of the zero and first conditional. |
| 17 - Sales | BUS.B1.17.3 | Learn to accept an offer, decline a request, or request more time. Review email language. |
| 17 - Sales | BUS.B1.17.4 | A non-profit organization needs to decide the best event management company to manage their event. |
| 18 - Customer Experience | BUS.B1.18.1 | Learn Wh- questions about subjects vs objects. |
| 18 - Customer Experience | BUS.B1.18.2 | Expand use of quantifiers. |
| 18 - Customer Experience | BUS.B1.18.3 | Learn to write a review of a product or service and to respond to a review. Learn to use adjectives ending in -ed vs -ing to describe an experience. Learn to use even for emphasis. |
| 18 - Customer Experience | BUS.B1.18.4 | A salon needs to develop a plan to increase customer loyalty. |
| 19 - International Business | BUS.B1.19.1 | Learn the second conditional, including If I were you. Learn differences in usage between second and first conditional. |
| 19 - International Business | BUS.B1.19.2 | Learn the third conditional to discuss cultural mishaps. |
| 19 - International Business | BUS.B1.19.3 | Learn hospitable language for greeting visitors. |
| 19 - International Business | BUS.B1.19.4 | A consultant needs to offer advice to a business planning to open a location in Japan. |
| 20 - Remote Work | BUS.B1.20.1 | Learn language connected to working remotely. Learn defining and non-defining relative clauses. |
| 20 - Remote Work | BUS.B1.20.2 | Learn how to make and change arrangements. Learn will, be going to and present continuous to make future arrangements. |
| 20 - Remote Work | BUS.B1.20.3 | Learn language to address technical issues on virtual calls. |
| 20 - Remote Work | BUS.B1.20.4 | A company considers how to best design a new hybrid work model. |
| 21 - Products | BUS.B2.21.1 | Review simple and continuous tenses to describe job duties. Learn language related to product development. |
| 21 - Products | BUS.B2.21.2 | Learn adjectives to describe product characteristics and their appropriate position in a sentence. |
| 21 - Products | BUS.B2.21.3 | Learn to use discourse markers to structure a presentation and add information. Learn to use linking words, metaphors of movement and signpost language to guide a listener through a presentation. |
| 21 - Products | BUS.B2.21.4 | A product team needs to decide the best ways to optimize user experience and convert freemium users into paying customers |
| 22 - Time Management | BUS.B2.22.1 | Present perfect with just, already, yet to discuss the status of work. Learn collocations with time. |
| 22 - Time Management | BUS.B2.22.2 | Learn the future perfect simple and continuous to discuss goals and deadlines. Learn by...[time reference]. Learn parallelism and connecting ideas with correlative conjunctions. Discuss project management. |
| 22 - Time Management | BUS.B2.22.3 | Learn to ask for a favor and respond to a request for a favor. Learn to say no politely. |
| 22 - Time Management | BUS.B2.22.4 | An employee needs help delegating and prioritizing his work. |
| 23 - Conflict Management | BUS.B2.23.1 | Review used to and would for past habits and situations. Learn no longer, any longer, and anymore to show change. |
| 23 - Conflict Management | BUS.B2.23.2 | Learn the third conditional, including past perfect continuous in the if clause. Learn should have + past participle to criticize past actions. |
| 23 - Conflict Management | BUS.B2.23.3 | Learn helpful language and expressions to stay on topic, calm down, and compromise. |
| 23 - Conflict Management | BUS.B2.23.4 | A software company needs a plan to resolve the tension between the product and sales teams. |
| 24 - Social Media in Business | BUS.B2.24.1 | Expand understanding of reporting verbs and their verb patterns. Learn changes to pronouns and references to time and place in reported speech. |
| 24 - Social Media in Business | BUS.B2.24.2 | Review using correct punctuation and grammar on social media. Review reported speech for questions. |
| 24 - Social Media in Business | BUS.B2.24.3 | Learn conversational deletion in email subject lines and social media posts. Learn social media and business acronyms. |
| 24 - Social Media in Business | BUS.B2.24.4 | A social media marketing agency needs to help a restaurant improve its social media presence. |
| 25 - Human Resources | BUS.B2.25.1 | Learn dependent prepositions. Learn language connected to human resources. |
| 25 - Human Resources | BUS.B2.25.2 | Learn passive modals (for obligation and permission). Learn make, let, be allowed to, and be forced to. |
| 25 - Human Resources | BUS.B2.25.3 | Learn linking words to give examples and clarify. Learn language to show understanding and paraphrase a problem. Discuss repatriation and relocation. |
| 25 - Human Resources | BUS.B2.25.4 | A multinational company needs to design an attractive repatriation program for its employees. |
| 26 - Workplace personalities | BUS.B2.26.1 | Learn language related to different workplace personalities. Learn common separable and inseparable phrasal verbs and idioms used in business. |
| 26 - Workplace personalities | BUS.B2.26.2 | Expand understanding of infinitives and gerunds. Learn ways to make an offer or invitation and accept or decline politely. |
| 26 - Workplace personalities | BUS.B2.26.3 | Learn to politely interrupt, deal with interruptions and clarify when in a disagreement with a colleague. Learn to use "as" to mean in the way that. |
| 26 - Workplace personalities | BUS.B2.26.4 | A business manager needs to solve his employee problems using insight about their personality types. |
| 27 - Business Trends | BUS.B2.27.1 | Learn causative structures with have and get. Learn to use passive voice to make predictions about the future. |
| 27 - Business Trends | BUS.B2.27.2 | Learn how to analyze charts and graphs and discuss trends. Learn to write about data or statistics, using verb/adverb combinations and adjective/noun combinations to describe change. Learn to express ratios and percentages. |
| 27 - Business Trends | BUS.B2.27.3 | Learn to discuss future certainty and uncertainty (possible, probable and certain) using modals of probability (will, could, might, may, won't), probability adjectives and adverbs adverbs of certainty. |
| 27 - Business Trends | BUS.B2.27.4 | An investor needs to decide which trending industry to invest in. |
| 28 - Communicating with Clients | BUS.B2.28.1 | Use the present continuous to inform clients about current situations and future arrangements. Review language used to discuss deliveries and order status. |
| 28 - Communicating with Clients | BUS.B2.28.2 | Expand understanding of conditionals. Practice if, unless, as long as, as soon as, provided (that), in case in conditionals. Introduce the concept of positive framing. |
| 28 - Communicating with Clients | BUS.B2.28.3 | Learn language to explain what to do and check understanding. Learn language to admit a mistake, apologize and explain how to fix it, using linking words to order steps. |
| 28 - Communicating with Clients | BUS.B2.28.4 | A mobile app needs to decide what changes to make in order to lower user abandonment. |
| 29 - Marketing | BUS.B2.29.1 | Learn language connected to brands and product types. Review defining and non-defining relative clauses. Learn shortening relative clauses. |
| 29 - Marketing | BUS.B2.29.2 | Review Yes / No and Wh- questions, various tenses. Learn language to describe the marketing mix. |
| 29 - Marketing | BUS.B2.29.3 | Learn to ask for contributions in a brainstorming session, express enthusiasm and summarize ideas. |
| 29 - Marketing | BUS.B2.29.4 | A marketing company is tasked with developing a marketing campaign for a travel jacket. |
| 30 - Business Ideas | BUS.B2.30.1 | Learn so, such and adverbs used to emphasize. Use non-grading adverbs to emphasize. |
| 30 - Business Ideas | BUS.B2.30.2 | Use modals to criticize past actions and explore alternative solutions. Learn present and past modals of deduction. |
| 30 - Business Ideas | BUS.B2.30.3 | Learn language to make, reject, accept and evaluate suggestions. Learn to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of an idea. |
| 30 - Business Ideas | BUS.B2.30.4 | A health and wellness store must come up with an idea for a new product to introduce in stores. |
| 31 - Business Management | BUS.C1.31.1 | Learn the difference between transitive, intransitive, separable and inseparable phrasal verbs. Learn idioms and phrasal verbs related to managing a team. At the end of this lesson, students can use idioms and phrasal verbs related to management. |
| 31 - Business Management | BUS.C1.31.2 | Expand understanding of relative clauses including quantifiers in relative clauses and indefinite pronouns. Learn possessives / of + noun. Discuss business management styles. At the end of this lesson, students can discuss different cultural management styles. |
| 31 - Business Management | BUS.C1.31.3 | Learn and expand language to speak about obligation, necessity, very strong advice and willingness. Learn language to delegate tasks. At the end of this lesson, students can delegate and discuss who is responsible for tasks. |
| 31 - Business Management | BUS.C1.31.4 | A company needs a new project manager to lead a struggling international project team. |
| 32 - Change Management | BUS.C1.32.1 | Learn adverbs and adverbials (manner, frequency, time, place, certainty, degree) to talk about changes in business. At the end of this lesson, students can use adverbs to discuss adapting to change. |
| 32 - Change Management | BUS.C1.32.2 | Expand understanding of perfect simple and continuous tenses (past, present, and future). At the end of this lesson, students can use advanced perfect tenses to discuss companies that have pivoted their offerings. |
| 32 - Change Management | BUS.C1.32.3 | Learn to write internal and external communications to make announcements and report good and bad news. At the end of this lesson, students can communicate good and bad news internally and externally. |
| 32 - Change Management | BUS.C1.32.4 | A company must adapt its business model as a result of an unexpected event. |
| 33 - Business Ethics | BUS.C1.33.1 | Learn language related to business ethics. Use reporting verbs and past modal verbs to discuss instances of business fraud. Review the second and third conditional for regrets. At the end of this lesson, students can use reported speech to describe past instances of unethical business behavior. |
| 33 - Business Ethics | BUS.C1.33.2 | Learn to change adjectives to their noun forms. Discuss corporate social responsibility. At the end of this lesson, students can use participle clauses to report business news. |
| 33 - Business Ethics | BUS.C1.33.3 | Learn to present a problem, express partial agreement, evaluate alternatives and make a decision. At the end of this lesson, students can state a problem and discuss possible alternatives. |
| 33 - Business Ethics | BUS.C1.33.4 | A non-profit needs to decide which company is deserving of its annual Corporate Social Responsibility Award. |
| 34 - Work appraisals | BUS.C1.34.1 | Learn reflexive and reciprocal pronouns. Learn language used in a work appraisal. At the end of this lesson, students can write a self-assessment. |
| 34 - Work appraisals | BUS.C1.34.2 | Learn reflexive and reciprocal pronouns. Learn language used in a work appraisal. At the end of this lesson, students can write a self-assessment. |
| 34 - Work appraisals | BUS.C1.34.3 | Learn language used in a work appraisal to praise and provide constructive criticism. Talk about future potential using would and could. At the end of this lesson, students can write a work appraisal using expressions to praise and constructively criticize. |
| 34 - Work appraisals | BUS.C1.34.4 | A company needs to redesign its compensation system so that it is fair to every salesperson. |
| 35 - Business Performance | BUS.C1.35.1 | Review and expand understanding of future forms. Learn other future forms (about to). Learn language to set goals and objectives. At the end of this lesson, students can create business goals and objectives. |
| 35 - Business Performance | BUS.C1.35.2 | Learn adverb and adjective word partnerships used to add emphasis. Learn to discuss performance results and business growth. At the end of this lesson, students can add emphasis when discussing business performance results. |
| 35 - Business Performance | BUS.C1.35.3 | Learn language to create goals and track business performance. Learn phrases to discuss quantitative changes and percentages. At the end of this lesson, students can create performance goals and discuss outcomes. |
| 35 - Business Performance | BUS.C1.35.4 | An operations manager is tasked with creating a system to monitor business performance. |
| 36 - Business Strategy | BUS.C1.36.1 | Learn various uses of gerunds and infinitives. At the end of this lesson, students can write business headlines and business mission statements. |
| 36 - Business Strategy | BUS.C1.36.2 | Learn to use contrast words to discuss business strategies. Learn to discuss a company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. At the end of this lesson, students can discuss the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of a business. |
| 36 - Business Strategy | BUS.C1.36.3 | Learn language to close a meeting, including last-minute reminders and follow-up information. At the end of this lesson, students can wrap up a meeting. |
| 36 - Business Strategy | BUS.C1.36.4 | A men’s accessory company needs to make strategic changes in order to stay competitive in the market. |
| 37 - Business Competition | BUS.C1.37.1 | Review and expand understanding of comparative forms. Learn sports idioms used in business. At the end of this lesson, students can compare two businesses using different comparative phrases and idioms. |
| 37 - Business Competition | BUS.C1.37.2 | Learn basic forms and uses of participle clauses and use participle clauses to write user personas. At the end of this lesson, students can write buyer personas using participle clauses. |
| 37 - Business Competition | BUS.C1.37.3 | Learn to conduct a market research survey. Learn to summarize findings and produce a market research report using passive reporting structures. At the end of this lesson, students can conduct a market research study and state the purpose of market research. |
| 37 - Business Competition | BUS.C1.37.4 | A producer of healthy smoothies must relaunch its product with a new approach. |
| 38 - Advertising | BUS.C1.38.1 | Learn cleft sentences and inversion for emphasizing information. At the end of this lesson, students can emphasize information using inversion and cleft sentences. |
| 38 - Advertising | BUS.C1.38.2 | Learn and review causatives with get and have. Learn language used in advertising and social media. At the end of this lesson, students can write a product advertisement using common advertising lingo. |
| 38 - Advertising | BUS.C1.38.3 | Learn to make impactful presentations by emphasizing and using non-gradable adverbs. Learn to persuade others using hyperboles, opinion statements, emotive language and rhetorical questions. At the end of this lesson, students can present a product or service using persuasive techniques, such as hyperboles, emotive language and rhetorical question. |
| 38 - Advertising | BUS.C1.38.4 | An eco-friendly cosmetics brand wants to introduce its products to a new market: men. |
| 39 - Business Finance | BUS.C1.39.1 | Learn language related to economics. Learn compound nouns and adjectives, adjectives with indefinite pronouns and possessives. At the end of this lesson, students can use phrases associated with money. |
| 39 - Business Finance | BUS.C1.39.2 | Review conditional forms, including zero, first, second, third, and mixed when making financial forecasts and negotiating a business investment deal. Learn conditional conjunctions. Learn money collocations and collocations with do and make. At the end of this lesson, students can make financial projections based on conditional factors. |
| 39 - Business Finance | BUS.C1.39.3 | Learn adverbs of focus and linking words. Learn language to confirm details of a business deal. Learn to diplomatically give bad news and express disappointment. At the end of this lesson, students can use appropriate language to confirm a business deal or diplomatically give bad news. |
| 39 - Business Finance | BUS.C1.39.4 | An investor needs to decide which startup to invest in. |
| 40 - Business Operations | BUS.C1.40.1 | Learn the past tense of future forms. Review would for repeated habits that are no longer true. Learn was supposed to for past expectations. Learn vocabulary related to business operations. At the end of this lesson, students can use past forms to discuss past habits, expectations and mistakes that were made. |
| 40 - Business Operations | BUS.C1.40.2 | Use linking words for introducing new information and giving examples. Use adverbs to show a speaker's attitude. At the end of this lesson, students can introduce examples using appropriate language. |
| 40 - Business Operations | BUS.C1.40.3 | Describe a process. Review passive forms. At the end of this lesson, students can use passive forms to describe processes in business operations. |
| 40 - Business Operations | BUS.C1.40.4 | A small start-up needs to prepare for the demands of a busy holiday season. |