Business English Worksheets

Are your students overworked from long days in the office (or college?)

This worksheet looks at the results of an experiment to change the working week to just four days, rather than five.

Following the warm-up, there is a gap-fill reading, comprehension questions and discussion.

It's a great topic for both general and business English students.

How well can your lower-level students ask and answer questions about someone's company?

This worksheet starts off with a quiz. (Can your students guess when some famous companies were founded?)

This is followed by a pre-conversation gap-fill on question words. (Matching when, what, how many, where).

There is a conversation for your students to practice in pairs (or with you), comprehension questions, role-playing and personalisation.

This worksheet is ideal for upper-elementary and pre-intermediate level students.

Have you applied for a job recently? Did you know that a computer might have scanned your resume and rejected you?

This worksheets looks at the (possibly worrying) growth of computers being used to sort out job applications.

Following the lead-in, there's collocation language building, a gap-fill reading and additional exercises and discussion.

Part of the discussion is an analysis of some common mistakes in resumes - not tailoring applications, mysterious gaps, inappropriate style and more.

It makes a great topic for discussion in both business and general English classes. Try it today!

Graphs and statistics make an excellent information-gap exercise for students.

Students need to work with a partner - or with the teacher. Students need to explain their graphs to a partner, who then draws it in the blank graph space.

The target language includes:

• increase
• decrease
• rise
• fall

For more confident students, you can introduce adverbs such as

• dramatically
• steadily

This worksheet is for lower-intermediate and above.

This revamped worksheet looks at the topic of what to do (and not to do) in a job interview. There's a task-based reading, plus exercises on language used to give advice. Students can make mini-presentations on topics, and then work in groups having discussions on interview experiences. This worksheet is written for intermediate-level students. (Updated October 2015)

It is said that managers typically spend thirty to fifty percent of the working day in meetings. Is it time well-spent? Do your students feel their meetings are productive? This worksheet looks at the topic of business meetings, with ideas on how to make them more productive. After the lead-in, there is a reading, vocabulary / idiom building practice and lots of discussion. This worksheet is written for upper-intermediate and advanced-level students.

Have your students ever stayed at a five-star hotel? Were they impressed by the level of service, or was it a waste of money?

This worksheet looks at the topic of hotel through an interview with a Hotel GM - the General Manager.

There is a vocabulary matching exercise, followed by a gap-fill reading, idiom work, role-play and discussion.

This worksheet is written for intermediate and advanced-level classes.

Do you have some intermediate-level business students who need speaking practice? This worksheet is a great way to improve fluency on common business topics. Can your students talk confidently about their company, responsibilities, skills and more? Students need to speak for 30 seconds (or longer) on each topic to proceed. This worksheet is written for intermediate classes.