Home Office Essentials
Teach spending habits and home office vocabulary in this B1 lesson plan built around ranking, a reading passage, and structured classroom debate.
Workplace
Prepare your students for professional environments with these esl lessons on office culture and workplace communication. Topics cover management styles, healthy workplaces, and what actually happens in offices. Your learners practice workplace vocabulary and develop confidence in professional English. Essential for teaching real-world workplace skills.
Tips to Find a Job
Four unusual job search tips, three debates, and one very specific reading task. This b1 lesson on jobs keeps intermediate students talking the whole hour.
Giving Feedback
Most people avoid honest feedback at work. This giving feedback B2 lesson plan helps students find the words and the confidence to have such conversations.
Bullshit Jobs
If your students already think most work is pointless, this C1 bullshit jobs lesson plan will give them the vocabulary and framework to prove it.
Work-life Balance
"It's your problem to figure out." That one quote opens this B2 business English lesson and gets students arguing about work-life balance immediately.
My First Job
Learn to describe first job experiences with A2 vocabulary for work schedules, customer service, and workplace feelings through real stories.
Side Hustle Ideas for Students
Three students share their side hustles in these B1 audio clips. Learn job vocabulary and discuss earning money while studying.
Quiet Cracking
Workers stay trapped in bad jobs despite fatigue and feeling unheard. This B2 lesson covers quiet cracking symptoms and declining satisfaction.
Inside a Modern Office
Tour a TikTok office, discuss open spaces and collaboration, then describe your ideal workplace in this B1 lesson on modern office vocabulary.
Weaponized Incompetence
B2 lesson unpacking weaponized incompetence in relationships. Video explains deliberate task avoidance, gender roles discussion, household labor vocabulary.
Polyworking
B2 business English lesson on polyworking and multiple jobs. Includes article about side gigs, financial stress, and vocab for careers and income sources.
10 Signs You’re Being Micromanaged
Is your boss a micromanager? This B2 business English lesson plan covers 10 signs of micromanagement with vocab, a video, and hilarious role plays.
Unwritten Work Rules
What are the unwritten rules at work? This B2 business English lesson plan covers workplace etiquette through listening, vocabulary, and discussion.
Highly Sensitive People at Work
Sensitivity at work, a strength or a weakness? This B2 lesson plan on highly sensitive people covers vocabulary, video, and role plays.
Fighting Workaholism
Is your job your whole identity? B2 students tackle workaholism, success addiction, and work-life balance in this business English lesson.
Workplace Scams & Red Flags
C1 business English lesson on workplace red flags. Analyze corporate scams, debate policies, and learn vocabulary for discussing work culture.
Daily Grind
Explore work stress and routines in this B1 lesson with animated short film ESC, daily grind vocabulary, and work-life balance discussions.
Everyday Work Idioms
Practice twelve essential workplace idioms in this B1 lesson covering expressions for describing busyness, teamwork, and project management situations.
Is the 5-day Workweek Outdated?
Explore work-life balance with this B2 lesson plan on the 5-day workweek. Debate modern work schedules and practice business vocabulary.
Is Traditional Office Culture Dead?
Examine post-pandemic office culture shifts with C1 students. Analyze employee priorities, debate perks versus benefits, and explore work flexibility.
Handling Online Meetings
Master professional English for virtual meetings with this B1 lesson on Zoom etiquette, common phrases, and remote work challenges.