Summary
This downloadable PDF lesson plan for B2 ESL students provides class material on how to run effective workshops. This English class material helps students learn key vocabulary and grammar for professional training contexts, ultimately boosting their business English skills.
This comprehensive lesson guides students through the process of planning and leading workshops. Activities begin with a warm-up discussion about personal experiences with training sessions. Students then complete a vocabulary matching task with essential workshop terms and a listening gap-fill exercise about a successful workshop. The lesson includes a grammar focus on gerunds and infinitives, a reading exercise about corporate training, and a final pair work activity where students plan and present their own mini-workshop agenda.
Activities
- A warm-up discussion where students share personal experiences with training sessions, setting the stage for the lesson's theme of effective workshops.
- A vocabulary matching task where students match essential terms like "facilitator," "agenda," and "icebreaker" with their definitions to build foundational knowledge.
- A listening exercise where students fill in the gaps in a facilitator's reflection, followed by comprehension questions to check their understanding of what makes a workshop successful.
- A grammar exercise focusing on gerunds and infinitives, with a gap-fill task to practice using the correct verb forms in professional contexts.
- A reading exercise about a successful corporate training program, requiring students to fill in gaps with business-related phrasal verbs and vocabulary such as "rolled out," "buy-in," and "follow-up."
- A speaking production activity where students work in pairs to plan and present a 20-minute mini-workshop agenda on a given business topic, applying the learned language and concepts.
Transcript
Vocabulary focus
This lesson focuses on professional vocabulary for training and development. Key terms include words for running a session like "facilitator," "agenda," "icebreaker," and "breakout rooms," and terms for evaluating its success such as "takeaways" and "feedback." It also introduces business-related phrasal verbs and nouns like "to roll out," "buy-in," "uptake," "follow-up," and "hands-on."
Grammar focus
The grammar section clarifies the use of gerunds (verb + -ing) and infinitives (to + verb). It explains that gerunds are used after certain verbs and prepositions, while infinitives are often used to express purpose or after other specific verbs. Students practice this distinction by completing sentences with the correct verb form, reinforcing their understanding in a professional context.
