Lesson plan

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Teacher: STEVEN KADIR GONZALEZ RAMIREZ
Working day: N/A
Activity: BUSINESS ROLEPLAY
The exercises name (how this activity is going to be
published): BUSINESS ROLEPLAY
Level: B1/B2
Materials: N/A
This activity is going to be focus on:
Reading

Writing

Listening
Speaking

KNOW YOUR OBJECTIVES

Grammar

Linguistic objectives
Lexical

To approach in a different context and putTo get in touch with new words,

the correct grammar in use, as in acommon words and unknown onesSinc

quotidian topic as in a non ordinaryin a different context. Be awareimp

situation.

and ready to help the SS torequ

understand the proper meaning.

Conversation strategies: Try to avoid teacher-centeredness. Begin

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the class with a group chatting casually. Its worthy, and after all, clubs
are intended to put students more at ease with the spoken English. By
asking them how their day has been or what they are planning to do
after class, its an approach that often works to warm the class up for
the first few minutes.

Discussion topics: For this lesson, ask them if they have seen or are
aware of current news about business around the world, and have a
brief chat about the main stories hitting the headlines either locally or
globally. Other optional questions to warm up and follow up the topic
can be: Where were you when you heard about it? How did you
find out? What happened?

PLAN YOUR TIMELINE

1. Warm up the class by asking them how their day has been or what
they are planning to do after class. (3 to 5 minutes)

2. Ask them if they have seen the current business tendencies. Have a
brief chat about the main stories or the ones that are more
controversial. Elicit from SS their ideas of what they think about
particular businesses. (5 to 10 minutes)

3. Explain the activity and rules. (3 minutes)

Tell them that they are about to prepare a Role Play activity in a
business situation.

For that, they would have to make groups of 2 or 3 people.

Then they have to choose either situation 1 or 2 (see

attachment).

Each group has to approach to the situations as real as possible,

and that implies using real context vocabulary .

They can have access to the computers to search for some

particular vocabulary.

It would be given 40 minutes to prepare the presentation.

4. Check on them while they prepare in order to make sure they are
going through the right path.

5. When the groups have prepared their situations, they present and
act them to the class, if possible ask them not to stick too much to the
paper, otherwise it would become into a reading activity. Remember
its focus on speaking. (25 minutes)

6. Of course, be sure to feed back to them and this may involve them
seeing part or the entire presentation, and put the focus on their
speaking. Then SS can vote for the best group. (5 minutes)

ATTACHMENT
Role Play
Situation 1
Person A

You are an agent of the Reserve a Hotel Company. One of your

customers has just booked a hotel for a business trip online.
Unfortunately, they did not select which room type. It is one week until
the event, and they are phoning you to change the type of the room.
They want a larger room but there are none available at this time.

What negotiations will you make?

Person B
You are a customer of Reserve a Hotel Company and you have
recently reserved and bought 2 nights in a hotel for a planned business
trip. It is one week before the vent and you have noticed that you did
not select the room type. You will now phoneReserve a Hotel to ask
about a large room.

What do you expect from the Reserve a Hotel company?

Situation 2
Person A
You are working in the Sales division of an electronics company. You
have arranged to meet your colleague today at 3pm to discuss
strategy. However you must cancel the meeting. You are only available
to meet in the mornings because you are out of the office every
afternoon next week in meetings.
Task: Try to rearrange the meeting for a suitable time?

Person B
You work in the sales division of an electronics company. You have a
meeting scheduled with your colleague, at 3pm today. It is an
important meeting and you are only available in the afternoons as you
are out of the office every morning on client visits.

Task:Try to rearrange the meeting to a suitable time?