Business English Worksheets

Many recruiters will receive hundreds of resumes for just one or two jobs. How can an applicant make his or her resume stand out from the crowd?

This worksheet looks at advice for improving resumes. The layout of resumes and the information contained within will vary from country to country. However, these differences will make a good basis for discussion.

An example resume is included with the lesson for your students to analyse. Note that it has deliberate spelling / grammar mistakes!

This worksheet is written for upper-intermediate to advanced level classes.

How good are your business students at conditionals?

We have updated our conditional gambler game with a business version.

There is lots of practice of mixed conditionals. Can your students spot the errors?

We have moved the worksheet up a notch in difficulty, so this should be perfect for your advanced-level classes.

The present perfect can be tough for students. However, this business handout will help them master the use of the tense for unfinished past, using 'for' and 'since'. There is an opening gap-fill conversation followed by exercises practicing the target language. Your students will also have the opportunity to conduct a class survey, asking their classmates about their work history. This worksheet is primarily for lower-intermediate level students.

Giving a presentation is tough in any situation - let alone if you're speaking in a foreign language!

This worksheet is designed to help your students build their confidence at speaking in public in English.

There's a matching exercise of useful 'presentation expressions' followed by an example set of notes for a presentation. Your students will then choose a topic and prepare to speak for a few minutes about it.

You can use this worksheet with both business and general English students.

This worksheet is ideal for intermediate levels and above.

Do you have students who need to give presentations - or just speak in front of people?

This worksheet looks at advice for giving better presentations. It teaches *gentle* feedback, with expressions 'you might want to' and 'it it be a good idea to'.

There is a conversation with practice exercises, role-play and discussion.

For giving presentations, you could pair this worksheet with our worksheet 'The Language of Presentations'.

This is a business-English version of our popular worksheet 'Can I ask a few questions?' How well can your students use subject questions? It can be tricky - especially after students have worked so hard in getting do/does into their question forms! This worksheet has a conversation, practice exercises and a quiz at the end. It will help your students improve their confidence with the target language. We have written the worksheet so that it will be suitable for both business and general-English classes.

Do bodyguards have a glamorous lifestyle? Is it like the Kevin Costner movie - or altogether quite different? This worksheet has an interview with a bodyguard. After a pre-reading vocabulary quiz, your students need to match the questions to the answers. There are follow-up exercises, and role-plays. Your students can work in pairs, choosing to interview the bodyguard of someone famous. This worksheet is written for intermediate-level classes.

This business-related worksheet is a great way to get your students confident with some common expressions. These include: * compete with * be in recession * be laid off * go bankrupt .... and many more. This worksheet has a conversation about a retailer closing, and how it is tough competing with online companies. There are vocabulary exercises and lots of discussion questions. The handout has been designed so that it's great for both general and business-English classes.