Summary
This downloadable PDF lesson for B1 ESL students helps them master subject-verb agreement in complex business sentences. This English class material uses a business-themed audio recording and practical exercises to improve accuracy and clarity in professional communication.
This lesson helps intermediate students tackle a common grammar challenge often found in business reports, emails, and presentations. Activities include a listening comprehension task, a vocabulary matching exercise focusing on business terms, and detailed grammar explanations with interactive practice.
Students will analyze and correct complex sentences, ensuring the subject and verb agree. The material is designed to build confidence in writing and speaking professionally, providing practical tools for clear and effective business English.
Activities
- A warm-up discussion about the importance of clear communication in a business context, setting the stage for the lesson's grammar focus.
- A listening exercise based on a business update audio, where students fill in the blanks to practice identifying correct verb forms in spoken English.
- A grammar focus section with a clear breakdown of key rules for subject-verb agreement, including how to handle intervening phrases, indefinite pronouns, and collective nouns.
- Interactive grammar practice, including multiple-choice questions and sentence correction tasks, to reinforce the rules in various business-related sentences.
- Speaking practice with discussion questions based on business scenarios, allowing students to apply the learned grammar and vocabulary in conversation.
Vocabulary focus
The vocabulary section introduces key business terms relevant to reports and updates. Words include "indicate," "shift," "strategy," "innovative," "address," and "crucial." Students learn these terms through definition matching and sentence completion exercises, helping to build their professional vocabulary.
Grammar focus
This lesson concentrates on subject-verb agreement in complex sentences. It covers common challenges for B1 learners, such as sentences with intervening phrases (e.g., "along with," "as well as"), indefinite pronouns ("each," "everyone"), collective nouns ("team," "company"), and constructions like "neither...nor."
