Lesson Overview

Do your ESL business students want to learn how to negotiate in English? Well, you can teach them about negotiation processes, language and more in this ESL business negotiation lesson! You will find over 2 hours worth of fun, useful exercises! 

This ESL business negotiation lesson starts off with a fun warmer, then there is a fantastic speaking exercise that challenges students to describe good, and bad negotiators using new vocabulary provided.

Next, is an awesome reading exercise where learners are presented with an article which provides negotiation tips.. Afterwards, students will learn about the six stages of a negotiation and will learn specific language. 

Students will learn new negotiation collocations and study diplomatic language, before being presented with an exercise where they can use the language. Students get to bring all the newly acquired grammar and vocabulary together with the final exercises of the lesson: a role play. Your B1/B2 students will love this ESL business negotiation lesson!

Activities: 

1. Warm up.
2. What makes a good negotiator? 
3. Article: Negotiation tips. 
4. Six stages of negotiation. 
5. Collocations. 
6. Diplomatic language.
7. Role play. 

Homework

This ESL business negotiation lesson plan is complete with a superb homework task where students are tasked with reading an article, then answering questions. Then, there is an idiom exercise related to ‘negotiation’.

Activities: 

1. Article: Five common negotiation mistakes. 
2. Article questions. 
3. Idioms: Negotiation.