Summary
This downloadable PDF lesson plan helps B2 students master daily stand-up meetings. This business English class material uses a video and role-play to build practical communication skills for the modern workplace. The lesson guides students through the structure of a daily stand-up meeting, covering warm-up discussions, vocabulary, video comprehension, grammar for reporting progress, and culminates in a structured role-play. This ESL material is perfect for business English classes.
Activities
- Warm-up and vocabulary: Students activate their existing knowledge by discussing what makes meetings effective and learn key terms like 'facilitator' and 'blocker' through a matching exercise.
- Video comprehension: Learners watch a video about stand-up meetings and complete two tasks: a true/false exercise for general understanding and a note-taking activity to identify the three key questions.
- Grammar and phrases: The lesson focuses on using past and future tenses to report progress. Students complete a gap-fill exercise and learn useful phrases for participating in a professional meeting.
- Role-play: In a final communicative task, students work in groups to role-play a stand-up meeting. With assigned roles and a clear scenario, they apply the new phrases, vocabulary, and grammar.
Vocabulary focus
This lesson focuses on key business and project management vocabulary, including terms like 'facilitator', 'blocker', 'impediment', 'round-robin', and 'off-topic'. Students will also learn and practice essential phrases for reporting progress, stating plans, identifying problems, and keeping a meeting on track.
Grammar focus
The grammar section concentrates on using different tenses to talk about work progress. Students learn the nuances between the Past Simple for completed tasks, 'will' and 'be going to' for future plans, and the Future Continuous for describing ongoing actions in the future, a common professional form.
