ESL Lesson Plan How To Be More Productive

This intermediate ESL business productivity lesson is perfect for your B1-B2 students. Students get to talk about this interesting topic and explore tips and challenges involved when trying to be productive in business. 

This ESL business productivity lesson plan starts off with a fun discussion task where students have to correct a mistake before answering the questions. Next, they have to complete a speaking task, where they discuss which things negatively affect their productivity. 

Later, there is a great article where learners are challenged to read tips about how to be productive in the morning. The fourth activity in this detailed ESL business productivity lesson is video-based. The video presents 4 productivity tips, all of which are broken down and discussed in detail.

The following exercise studies different proverbs related to productivity. This is an excellent task that will introduce students to natural English, and challenge them to figure out the meanings in depth. Then, there is a detailed grammar activity that looks at modals of probability in the past tense, and it contains an explanation and activities. Activities: