ESL Conversation Questions: Employee of The Year

1. What is the employee of the year award? 

2. What are at least 3 requirements that should determine if someone can be eligible for the employee of the year award in your job or industry? 

3. What would winning an employee of the year award mean to you? 

4. Are there any negatives to having an employee of the year award? 

5. "You've got to get your team to not only understand your company brand, but also to understand their personal brand." Amber Hurdle - Do you agree with this quote? 

6. If you were the boss of a company would you give an employee of the month award or of the year? Why?  

ESL Phrasal Verbs: Business

1. To call off - to cancel 

2. To chip/pitch in - to help or contribute 

3. To get over - to recover 

4. To let down - to disappoint; to not help or support 

5. To pass up - to decline (usually something good) 

6. To count on - to rely on 

Phrasal Verb Conversation Questions 

1. What would you consider to be a large letdown for your company?

2. Who directly counts on you the most at your job? 

3. What investment could people make today that you think they will regret passing up on in the next ten or fifteen years? 

4. What's an embarrassing situation that you think would be difficult for your company to get over? 

5. If you invited 10 friend to a birthday party and two of them got infected with the coronavirus would you call off the party or just uninvite those two friends. 

6. Is there someone in your office our business team who doesn't pitch in enough? 

ESL Vocabulary: Unions

ESL Vocabulary (Unions)

1. Treatment - noun - the manner in which someone behaves towards or deals with something or someone 

2. Collective Bargaining - noun - negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees 

3. Prosperity - noun - the state of being prosperous 

4. Strip - verb - to deprive someone of something 

5. Imbalanced - adjective - the state of being out of equilibrium or proportion 

6. Systemic - adjective - relating to a system; especially as opposed to a specific part  

ESL Conversation Questions: Unions

1. What is a union? 

2. Are unions important? Why or Why not? 

3. What are the negatives of unions? 

4. Why do you think companies like Amazon and Uber do not want employees to unionize? 

5. "Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence." - Henry Ford. Do you agree with this quote? 

6. Do you think joining a union would be beneficial in your industry? 

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ESL Grammar: Communication

 

Instructions: Answer the question and create sentence with the given verb tense that relates to the picture or topic in anyway. 

1. How has communication changed for the better? 

2. Conjunctive Adverb 

1. What are the dangers of digitized communication? 

2. Gerund 

1. In what way will communication change in the future? 

2. Future Perfect 

ESL Vocabulary: Communication

1. Transparency - noun - operating in a way that is easy for others to see what actions are performed 

2. Dissatisfaction - noun - lack of satisfaction 

3. Assumption - noun - a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof 

4. Speculate - verb - form a theory or conjecture about a subject without firm evidence 

5. Entrenched - adjective - firmly established and difficult or unlikely to change; ingrained 

6. Eradicate - verb - destroy completely; put to an end. 

ESL Conversation Questions: Communication

1. What is communication? 

2. What are common barriers to effective communication 

3. How can someone improve their communication skills? 

4. Do you have to be a great communicator in order to be a great leader? 

5. "The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." What does this quote mean to you? 

6. Why do you want to learn how to communicate in English?