A selection of English ESL jobs, work ppt slides with general speaking practice, speaking practice

This speaking practice is intended for adults or those who work. If you exclude the topic about work, you can also use for your teenage students. It is interactive and perfect for tablet users. The presentation has buttons that students can easily navigate. I hope you have a great day! Wish you all the best, Darija

Speaking Activity- Questions about Friends, Work..

Game on slide 10. Teams choose an egg which is hyperlinked to a slide which an occupation picture and simple sentence. On the Occupation slide, click about 3 times until the angry bird with relevant points appears. Then click the HOME button to return to the game on slide 10. When ALL the eggs have disappeared, teams choose a bird at the bottom of slide 10.

Occupations (Angry Bird Points Game)

The transition for a teacher to the online system always requires a lot of effort and skills, for which there is usually not enough time. It is sometimes possible to spend a good 5-6 hours of time on creating 1 interactive lesson, which already indicates a week of non-stop busyness.
I offer to the attention of teachers my interactive English lessons for Pre-Intermediate/A2 level students (Speakout book, but you can also go through the exercises separately without reference to the book).The class is fully interactive, interesting role-playing games, conversational exercises, and audio are also added. Each task is adapted for any gadget (computer, phone, tablet). 
Almost all of the cards and pictures are clickable. Convenient and interesting!For the whole hour, each teacher receives an individual link and password, so your lesson remains completely yours at any time.


1 Lesson:
We discuss the photo, guess the specialization
We learn 8 words that we practice during the lesson (Interactive exercise, you can click on the cards an infinite number of times to change the word and translation)
The student reads the meaning, names the appropriate word, calls on it, and immediately the exercise shows whether his/her judgment is correct.
In any sequence, students open the cards, look at the hidden pictures and complete the tasks + listen to the audio, read the audio text, translate it.
Students recall the present tenses and practice question structures.
Analysis of business introductory structures + writing a business email.
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ESL Online lessons for English Teachers (Pre-Intermediate) / Lesson 1

Students will learn about some jobs and the industries that they fall in. Then students will do a role-play with the examples provided in the powerpoint.
Future career 

Industry and jobs
Reason for the career choice

future career - talking about jobs and their industries.

When should “Working as an Expat” be used?

“Working as an Expat” is a speaking lesson plan download aimed at students with intermediate proficiency levels and above. It is perfect for both individuals and groups, helping promote fluency in speaking and sparking healthy discussion regarding the similarities and differences of working outside one’s home country. Before using this speaking lesson plan download, we advise you to familiarize yourself with your students’ cultural backgrounds along with the lesson content to ensure that the lesson material is inclusive and appropriate.

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Working As An Expat: A Free Speaking ESL Lesson Plan

For upper intermediate language students looking for a new challenge, this ESL Lesson Plan on the Business of Philanthropy offers an excellent speaking activity.

This lesson plan from the Off2Class library provides a nuanced look into philanthropy (e.g., charities, donations) and the business aspects surrounding the industry. The lesson also includes several warm-up activities (before the reading text) and basic comprehension questions (after the reading text).

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The Business of Philanthropy – A Free ESL Lesson Plan

Designed for a discussion class
✅ Two short videos (each under one minute) to spark discussion
✅ Engaging discussion questions to encourage critical thinking
✅ A structured yet flexible format suitable for various proficiency levels

Career Choice Discussion Lesson

The student is presented with a humorous set of PPTs which present 6 horrible jobs and the reasons why they are horrible. Students can be asked to explain why they are horrible before the reasons are shown on the PPT. Students can also be given homework to find another terrible job and do a 3-minute presentation on it the next day as to what it is and why it is horrible.

Some horrible jobs and reasons why they are horrible

An educational resource designed to help learners explore the concepts of professional drive and achievement. It is structured as an interactive lesson aimed at improving English language skills—specifically at an upper-intermediate (B2) level—while discussing real-world career goals.

The presentation covers several key areas:

Discussion & Reflection: It encourages students to evaluate their own levels of ambition and brainstorm the factors that define a "successful" career, such as job satisfaction, salary, and work-life balance.


Vocabulary Building: A significant portion of the slides focuses on mastering "Career Moves" vocabulary (e.g., climbing the career ladder, taking a career break) and common verb-noun collocations used in professional contexts.


Practical Application: Through gap-fill exercises, role-plays, and discussion questions, the lesson prompts students to apply new terminology to their own future plans and diverse career philosophies.

Overall, the PowerPoint serves as a comprehensive guide for individuals to articulate their professional aspirations and understand the strategic moves necessary to build, develop, and pursue a successful career path.

Ambition & Successful Careers

Online lesson suitable for business students - groups or OneToOne. Crib sheet included on final slides.
 Students talk about company structure and their own role within it. They read the CVs from six candidates and select the best one to fill job vacancy. Business English and company terms are explored and practised in this discussion and reading-focused presentation.

Job Roles - Business English

A career path is a long-term plan that includes specific jobs that lead to a desirable occupation. Here you can find different information about what is a career path, what kinds of it exists and what is Sabbatical

All about career path

A career path is a long-term plan that includes specific jobs that lead to a desirable occupation.
Here you can find different information about what is a career path, what kinds of it exists and what is Sabbatical

All about Career Path

General speaking practice

Jobs, work

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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