Lesson 5

Business ENGLISH

PPEI - Wednesday, May 14th 2025

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Do's and Don'ts during a job interview

Grammar: How to ask questions

Sports-related business idioms

Let's work on your business vocab!

Do's and Don'ts during a job interview

Watch this video of Rachel's English. Pay attention to her advice when it comes to answering questions at a job interview. Take notes, it will help!

Grammar: How to ask questions

Please take a look at the presentation about how to ask questions that has been dropped on eCampus.

Now let's see what you've memorized! We're going to play a short round of Plickers to test your grammar skills...

To finish up, let's play a game of Guess Who? To practice asking questions, we will play a little game of "Guess Who" . => Get into groups of 4 = 1 vs 1 student + 2 referees. => Each student has a post-it with the name of a famous athlete on their face. => They have to take turns to ask YES/NO questions to find out who this athlete is.

Serena Williams

Michael Phelps

RULES OF THE GAME: => The referees will write the names of athletes on a post-it and then the game starts. => If the answer to the question is YES, the student asking questions continues to ask questions. => If the answer to the question is NO, the student asking questions stops and it is the other student's turn to ask.

RULES OF THE GAME: If a question is NOT GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT = Yellow card 2 yellow cards <=> 1 red card 1 red card => the student automatically loses => When one student wins, the referees and players switch roles.

Let's take a 15-minute break! Please be back in class on time! :)

Sports-related business idioms

Interestingly, business English contains a lot of sports-related idioms! Take a look at the following expressions and... a) Find which sport they are related to b) What they could mean in a business context 1) to kick off 2) to be on target 3) to be up to scratch 4) to know the ropes 5) ballpark figure 6) to jump the gun 7) to be in pole position 8) to be neck and neck

1) to kick off => football (UK) / soccer (US) => to start / to begin (for instance: to kick-off a meeting) 2) to be on target => archery (= le tir à l'arc) => you are making progress; you are likely to achieve your goals / you are on track to be on time by the deadline 3) to be up to scratch => track-and-field / athletics => to be of good standard, acceptable

4) to know the ropes => sailing (= la voile) => to have experience / knowledge (= des connaissances) in something / to be skilled in something 5) ballpark figure => baseball => a rough estimate (= une estimation grossière) => to give a ballpark figure of the sales 6) to jump the gun => horse racing => horses start the race at the sound of the gun being shot => to go too fast without thinking

7) to be in pole position => car racing => pole position is the best position in a car race => you are in a great position to achieve something 8) to be neck and neck => horse racing => to be in a very tough (= rude) competition

Let's work on your business vocab!

Go to the website "Learning Apps". => In groups of 4/5 students, design a Learning App (any type you would like!) to help your classmates learn their business and the workplace vocabulary. => Use your vocabulary worksheet. => When your app is ready, send the link to Ms. Pillard so that we can put it on eCampus for your classmates.