Lesson Overview
How do you solve problems at work? You can learn about problem solving processes in this ESL business lesson on problem solving! The topic is explored through an interesting article and multiple fun activities.
This ESL business lesson plan begins with a fun warmer and discussion. Next, they have to complete a vocabulary exercise before exploring the topic of people's problems.
This ESL business lesson on problem solving continues to explore the problem solving process through an engaging article followed by some tasks. After the article, students learn specific phrases that are used in these meetings, before the third conditional is studied.
Students get to bring all the newly acquired grammar and vocabulary together with the final exercises of the lesson: a case study and discussion questions. We are sure that your intermediate students will love this ESL business problem solving lesson! Activities:
- Warm up
- How could you save money?
- People's problems.
- Article and activities.
- Meeting language.
- Problem profiles.
- Grammar: The 3rd Conditional.
Homework
This ESL business problem solving lesson plan is complete with a superb homework task where students are tasked with studying idioms related to ‘problems’. There is an idioms creation exercise before they have to match the idioms to the meanings. Finally, students have a series of questions which is a perfect writing task. Activities:
- Idioms related to problems.
