English Current Workplace Negotiation Role-plays and Expressions
English Current Workplace Negotiation Role-plays and Expressions is a conversation lesson from English Current, a site of ESL lesson plans. It teaches expressions for raising an issue at work, making a request, and agreeing or refusing one, then puts them to use in role-plays between an employee and a manager about pay, time off and workload. A handout carries the same material.
100% Free (unlimited): The full lesson plan, the handout preview and every role-play situation are on the page itself, and the Word handout downloads directly with no account at any point. Teaching notes on how to run the activity and an extension task are included as well.
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The page opens with the level, the class time and the language focus, then gives the teaching steps. A handout preview lists expressions for introducing an issue, making a request, and accepting or refusing one. Below it are role-plays between an employee and a manager on holiday requests, a pay rise and workload, each with a card for both speakers.
You can study the expressions first and then use them straight away in the situations below, which is how the lesson is built. Each role-play gives you a card for your own part and one for the other speaker, so you can take either side and swap. Choose the easier version for simpler language, and write your own dialogue from the extension task once the phrases feel comfortable.
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