Office life

There are different sides of office life that our students may need to be able to deal with in English. This lesson will focus on building up their general office-related vocabulary.

You can start by linking your students to the following exercise, which can be done for homework on their own devices, or collaboratively completed on a class interactive whiteboard.



Next, get students to describe what each item is used for, and how often they use it. It would be interesting also to check whether they have any personal preferences when it comes to office supplies.

Do your students deal with office supplies? Well, they now have a problem. They are out of sticky notes, highlighters and staples (all at the same time!) and this impedes their everyday functioning.

They need to write an email to the relevant person, requesting the missing supplies.

First, they can test out their email-writing knowledge through the following exercise:





After the students have picked the correct answers, discuss the basics of a business email: greetings, opening sentences, closing sentences, register.

Then have students respond to the above email from Joe's perspective. Alternatively, have students rewrite Linda's email with a different request, matching their own business context.

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