Decoding Business Jargon

The main goals of this ESL lesson are:

• – familiarize the students with business jargon
• – develop professional business vocabulary
• – discuss healthy boundaries of business language; what is deemed appropriate and what is not

This upper-intermediate lesson plan looks into the dos and don’ts of business language through a variety of exercises: vocabulary practice, reading comprehension and discussion practice.

Warm-up

To kick things off students look at a hypothetical business situation and share what they would do if faced with such a scenario.

Video

The students watch a video “Where Did Cringey Corporate Jargon Come From?” and complete a quiz based on what they watched.

Exercises

Using provided phrases learners create responses to posed questions. Next, they complete expressions using a word bank.

Reading

Students read a text about corporate jargon and answer questions to the text.

Discussion

Students rearrange letters to form questions, and answer them.