Summary
This ESL lesson plan for B1 English students focuses on the essential skill of giving and receiving constructive feedback in the workplace. This class material uses a variety of interactive exercises to teach students how to communicate clearly and professionally about performance.
This lesson helps intermediate students build confidence in professional communication. Activities include a warm-up discussion, a listening comprehension task, and key vocabulary matching. Students will practice the past simple passive to describe actions where the focus is on the result, not the person. The lesson culminates in a speaking activity, allowing students to apply the new language in realistic work-related scenarios.
Activities
- A warm-up discussion to share personal experiences with workplace feedback.
- A listening comprehension exercise where students fill gaps in a short audio text about receiving feedback.
- A vocabulary matching task to define key terms like "constructive," "specific," and "perspective."
- A grammar focus on the past simple passive, explaining its structure and use in a professional context.
- A reading comprehension exercise based on a short article about the principles of effective feedback.
- Guided speaking practice using discussion questions to role-play and discuss feedback scenarios.
Vocabulary focus
The vocabulary section introduces essential terms for discussing performance and feedback at work. Key vocabulary includes "constructive," "feedback," "improve," "communicate," "specific," "perspective," and "time management." Students learn to use these words to give and receive feedback in a clear, professional, and helpful manner.
Grammar focus
This lesson concentrates on the past simple passive (was/were + past participle). This grammatical structure is taught to help students describe events and actions in the workplace when the person who performed the action is unknown or less important than the action itself, such as in the sentence "The report was completed on time."
