Category Archives: Language of meetings

New Teaching Meetings e-book

Over 300 pages of classroom-tested photocopiable activities on starting meetings, chairing, turn taking, giving and responding to opinions and advice, smoothly progressing through the meeting and bringing them to an end, etc, etc. Includes stacks of roleplays and meetings language … Continue reading

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Presentations worksheets now easier to find

This is probably the thing I have taught most often over the last two years, so my presentations games/ worksheets page had grown somewhat unmanageable. Have now reorganised the 22 worksheets into sections on tips/ advice, starting/ ending, voice and body, common … Continue reading

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30 meetings/ negotiations communication games and other worksheets

Updated to be all on one page and better organised: Meetings and negotiations materials/ links

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Loads of new presentations lessons

And when I say lessons I really mean lessons, as there is at least 15 hours of stuff there. Newest ones at the top of the page: Presentations in English photocopiables

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New TEFL articles and worksheets November 2011

I’ve mentioned some of these in my posts on tips and useful language etc, but the ones near the top of each section are those that have just gone up and I haven’t linked to before: Articles Teaching grammar in Business … Continue reading

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Business meetings first class lesson plan

This is a three hour class that will need cutting down for most people and I won’t get to try it out till tomorrow, but looks like a nice combination of some of my TEFLtastic classics and some new stuff … Continue reading

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New EFL worksheets November 2010

November 2010 Part One and Only (a bit more realistic than usual about my blogging abilities this month…) Starting and Ending Meetings (loads of lovely Business English functional language) Language of trends- Your week and life (personalisation for this vital IELTS … Continue reading

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New Meetings and Negotiations page

Loads of loverly language, mainly fun, and all PDFed. About 10 there so far, and many more coming up soon as I’m teaching a 12 hour course Business English course on this topic and by no means have enough materials … Continue reading

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New game-like worksheets March 2010 Part Two

Worksheet for MyStoryMaker online storytelling (see Sean Banville’s blog for more details on using that site) Company buffet meeting (if they can talk about food, they can do the language of meetings- with a little bit of culture sprinkled on top) … Continue reading

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