Topics: Business English – meetings - small talk – virtual settings
Level: B1and above
Skills: Speaking and Reading
Aims:
To discuss the importance of small talk in business contexts.
To compare in-person vs. virtual small talk.
To express agreement or disagreement.
To infer meaning from context and personal experience.
To brainstorm ideas and compare them with a text.
To analyze others’ ideas and give opinion.
To relate the text ideas with their own experience.
To discuss and classify topics according to appropriacy.
To roleplay small talk situations.
Use of language:
To use Simple Present to describe typical actions.
To use Simple Past to talk about past actions.
To review question forms in different tenses.
To learn / review “used to” to describe past habits.
To learn / review Second Conditional to talk about hypothetical situations.
To learn / review vocabulary for small talk.