ESL Lesson Plan Connect With Coworkers

Level
B1
Time
90 min
Media
Video + Article
Connect With Coworkers

Lesson Overview

In this ESL business lesson plan on how to connect with coworkers, students will learn about the importance of strong relationships in the workplace. Through engaging discussions and activities, they will explore effective communication, active listening, and building rapport.

It begins with a fun warm up where students are encouraged to discuss…

In this ESL business lesson plan on how to connect with coworkers, students will learn about the importance of strong relationships in the workplace. Through engaging discussions and activities, they will explore effective communication, active listening, and building rapport.

It begins with a fun warm up where students are encouraged to discuss different team bonding activities before moving on to an adjective exercise where students discuss positive and negative characteristics of coworkers. 

Afterwards, there is a detailed exercise that thoroughly explores each of the tips raised in the video. At each stage, there are different engaging vocabulary, comprehension and discussion tasks. 

The next ESL exercise of the class explores four, key topic-related phrasal verbs in detail, including definitions, use in a sentence, and questions. Finally, the lesson ends with a fun, topic-based speaking activity.  

This ESL business lesson plan on workplace romances follows this structure: Exercises:

Activity Layout

  1. Warm Up: Team Bonding Activities. 
  2. Characteristics of coworkers. 
  3. Video Analysis: 1
  4. Video Analysis: 2
  5. Video Analysis: 3
  6. Phrasal Verbs. 
  7. Phrasal Verbs: Activities
  8. Speaking Activity. 

Homework

As with all adult lesson plans on ESL Pals, there is a homework task to supplement this B1 ESL lesson plan. Students are challenged to complete a series of exercises which follows on from the lesson.

  1. Article. 
  2. Article writing task. 

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