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BEI1 · B1+–B2 · Adults · 60–75 minutes · 8-page PDF
Teach eight useful business and everyday idioms through workplace cartoons and short conversations. Learners practise expressions such as on the same page, touch base, in the loop and cut corners, then use them in the Idiom Sprint board game.
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Classroom and homework audio
Download The Booking Trial (MP3)
Download The Repair Café (MP3)
Download The Supplier Delay · Homework (MP3)
How to teach the lesson
Start with the picture guide and model sentences. Play The Booking Trial, then have pairs read the workplace and repair café dialogues aloud. Use the mini-dialogues to check meaning before playing Idiom Sprint. Set the supplier-delay listening homework for independent practice.
Picture matching, business English vocabulary, listening and speaking. Page 6 reviews the eight core idioms. Page 7 introduces five more expressions in a listen-and-check dialogue, and page 8 has the teacher notes and keys.
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