Business Idioms 2. Talking about problems

In this lesson, your students will:

• Reflect on their own experiences with problems at work
• Read and analyze a business dialogue, identifying how speakers express their views
• Explore idioms with guided comprehension questions
• Practice substituting idioms in a dialogue
• Roleplay workplace problem scenarios and decide which strategies would be effective or ineffective
• Listen to an authentic-style business dialogue and check comprehension
• Do controlled matching, sentence completion, and gapped paraphrasing activities
• Personalize idioms by finishing open-ended prompts
• Work in groups to prepare and present a short pitch

This lesson includes 20 exercises that help learners understand and use a range of business idioms for describing problems, risks, and solutions in workplace contexts in order to communicate more naturally and effectively about challenges and strategies in professional settings.

Vocabulary: sweep under the rug, turn things around, at stake, etc.

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