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Handbook for teachers

Designed for both new and experienced teachers, Work it Out with Business Idioms is uniquely focused on presenting and practising idioms in a business or work-related context.

Key features

  • Detailed lesson plans to ensure clear and effective delivery, from start to finish, including lead-ins and activities for practice, production, extension and review

  • Activities and lesson adaptations to accommodate the needs of mixed-ability classes, and discussion questions to encourage critical thinking

  • Digital lesson alternatives and online-teaching tips to support a blended-learning environment

  • Extension exercises for more-confident students and activities for fast finishers

  • Downloadable and photocopiable content

With its highly communicative, student-centred approach, Work it Out with Business Idioms offers downloadable and photocopiable lesson materials, extensive teaching notes and a variety of inclusive activities for B2–C1 level students.

  • Handouts

  • Teaching tools

  • Lists of English business idioms

  • A unique business idiom dictionary completes the book

About the author

David Bohlke is an ELT author, editor, trainer and consultant with 35 years of expertise in creating market-driven publishing materials. He has commissioned, edited and written some of the world’s top-selling courses and skills texts for the adult, secondary and academic English markets, including: Four Corners and Final Draft (Cambridge University Press); Keynote and Reading Explorer (National Geographic Learning); Skillful (Macmillan Education); Next Generation Grammar (Pearson); and Speak Now (Oxford University Press).