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EBE - Lesson 12

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ELEMENTARY BUSINESS ENGLISH

Session 12
UNIT 8: Employment
USEFULNESS
Lesson 12

Specific achievement When talking about business, it’s important to know what’s

By the end of the lesson, the happening around, describe it and figure it out so that we can use

students will be able to say what this information for taking new opportunities.

they are doing, talk about friends


and tell the time using the present
progressive tense and time
expressions.
Listen to three conversations in an office. Why are the people busy at the momento?

1 2 3

Sandra ____________________ Shantelle __________________ Bill and Sofia ________________


__________________________ __________________________ ___________________________
Read conversation 1 and complete the rules.

A: Come on Sandra. It’s 12 o’clock. Let’s go for lunch. Present continuous (Present progressive)
B: I’m sorry. I’m not going for lunch today. There’s no time.
A: Why? What are you doing? Affirmative _____ + verb + ing

B: Anton and I are interviewing someone.


Negative _____ + _____ + verb + ing
A: What? Now?
B: It’s for the web editor position. She’s waiting in the Questions _____ + subject + _____ + ing
Reception. Sorry. See you later. It describes an action or event now or around
A: Bye 1 the moment of speaking.
Complete conversations 2 and 3 using the present continuous form of the verbs in parenthesis.

C: Where’s Shantelle?
2
D: She ____________________ (not/work) here today. She’s at home.
C: Why?
D: She ________________ (finish) her report. Her boss wants it for 7:30
tomorrow morning.

E: Where ________________________________ (Bill and Sofia / go)?


3
F: They ________________________ (do) the training course for that new
finance software all day.
E: When are they back?
F: At about a quarter to six.

PRONUNCIATION: Practice the conversations.


Read the article and underline all the examples of present continuous.

Due to technological advances and the change of the


labor market after the pandemic, how is employment
changing?

• Today, people are creating new companies with only


virtual offices on line.
• Some career fields are disappearing while new ones are
coming out.
• Lots of employees are working from home in any part
of the world. This type of work is making the labor
market borderless.

Do you agree with this article? What current changes are you witnessing at your workplace or around you?

training staff research investment


Listen to four conversations and match them to the times bellow.

A _____ B _____ C _____ D _____

How about your schedule? Go around the class or go into the breakout rooms to ask and answer the
following questions. Take notes of your partners answers.
QUESTIONS S1 S2
What time do you start work?
IMPORTANT TIP:
What time did you finish work last Friday? AT 10:45 (time)
What time do you read your emails or messages? ON Tuesday (day)
When and what time did you finish your last task?
When and what time do make some time for yourself?
ARRANGING TO MEET: Listen and complete the sentences.

1. We need to __________ ____________ the plan…


2. ________ we ___________ a meeting on Thursday …
3. ________ two o’clock OK for you?
4. Sorry, I’m busy ______________.
5. _________ ____________ the morning?
6. What time are you ___________?
7. Nine thirty is ____________ ____________ me.
8. I ____________ ____________ between eight and ten.
9. ____________ you ____________ after that?
PUT 1 – 11 INTO THESE CATHEGORIES 10. ____________ ten fifteen Good for you?
a. Asking to meet: _____, ______
11. Yes, a quarter past ten on Thursday is ____________ …
b. Asking about times: _____, _____, _____, _____
c. Saying when you are free: _____, _____
d. Saying when you are busy: _____, _____
SPEAKING ACTIVITY: Work in small groups
Use the expressions in the previous activity to arrange times this week for you all to:
• Have a three-hour meeting
• Have an extra English lesson
• Interview people for the new receptionist position (two half days)
UNIT 8: Employment LET’S REMEMBER

Lesson 12 Answer these questions:


1. What are the rules to form the present continuous?
2. What prepositions do we use to tell the time and the day?
Specific achievement
3. What expressions do we use for asking to meet?
By the end of the lesson, the __________________ 🌻 ___________________
students will be able to say what
they are doing, talk about friends What parts of the class were difficult?
What parts of the class were easy?
and tell the time using the present
progressive tense and time Thank you! 🌻
expressions.

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