Often after my last TEFLtastic Classic (needs and instant personalised practice), I often start business courses with a big review of the basic language for electronic and face-to-face communication, with materials like these:
First contact and further contact picking roleplays (email, online, phone and face to face) – NEW
Telephone, email and face to face error correction pairwork – NEW
Starting and ending business communications simplest responses – NEW
Business communication brainstorming and error correction – NEW
Different kinds of business communication dice game Market Leader Int version
Communicating before, during and after meetings practice (emailing, telephoning, etc – in this bargain e-book)
First contact line by line brainstorming and jigsaw
First contact functions card game (face to face, email and telephone)
Prepositions of time pairwork guessing game (including business skills review)
Business communication prepositions and determiners pairwork
Business communication pairwork correction game
Starting and ending business communications jigsaw texts (email, telephone and face to face, a polished up version of my worksheet in English Teaching Professional magazine)
First contact and further contact dice games (emailing, telephoning, teleconferencing, video conferencing and face to face)
Travel English telephone, email and face to face dice game
Different kinds of business communication meeting criteria board game
Telephone, email or face to face functional language dice game
Communication challenges dice game – LINK UPDATED
Related pages
Business English functional language reviews
Not sure how it’s taken me 15 years to make a list of materials that I use so much… For 50 more activities that I suddenly realised that I use all the time, see here.
Updated 6 October 2026
