A2/A2+ Pre-Intermediate

Business skills

• Introducing yourself and your role
• Networking and making small talk
• Asking about jobs and responsibilities
• Building professional relationships
• Social expressions in the workplace

Grammar

• Present Simple for routines and facts
• Present Continuous for current activities
• Past Simple for background information
• Yes/No questions with be and do
• Wh- questions for personal and work information

Business skills

• Describing teams and colleagues
• Talking about daily work routines
• Discussing workplace relationships
• Making conversation with coworkers
• Describing resources and responsibilities

Grammar

• Present Simple for regular work activities
• Present Continuous for temporary work situations
• Present Simple vs Present Continuous
• Have / have got for possession and relationships
• Questions and short answers with have / have got

Business skills

• Reporting good and bad business news
• Describing what happened at work
• Explaining events in sequence
• Giving updates on projects and problems
• Using adverbs to make reports clearer

Grammar

• Past Simple for completed events
• Past Continuous for background actions
• Past Simple vs Past Continuous
• Regular and irregular past forms
• Time expressions for sequencing events

Business skills

• Ordering food and refreshments for meetings
• Shopping for workplace supplies
• Inviting clients or colleagues to meals
• Discussing quantities, prices and orders
• Talking about food-service businesses

Grammar

• Countable and uncountable nouns
• Some and any
• Much, many, a lot of and lots of
• A few / a little and few / little
• Articles: a, an, the and zero article

Business skills

• Talking about career goals
• Planning future projects
• Discussing professional development
• Expressing certainty and uncertainty
• Comparing expectations across generations

Grammar

• Verb + to-infinitive
• Verb + -ing form
• Going to for plans and intentions
• Will for predictions and spontaneous decisions
• Present Continuous for future arrangements

Business skills

• Talking about company history
• Describing professional experience
• Discussing milestones and achievements
• Comparing past and present ways of working
• Talking about how long people have worked somewhere

Grammar

• Present Perfect for life and work experience
• Past Simple for finished past events
• Present Perfect vs Past Simple
• For and since
• Past participles of regular and irregular verbs

Business skills

• Describing products and services
• Comparing competing options
• Discussing strengths and weaknesses
• Giving preferences and recommendations
• Talking about value and quality

Grammar

• What’s ... like? for descriptions
• Comparative adjectives
• Superlative adjectives
• As ... as / not as ... as
• Adjective forms and common irregular comparatives

Business skills

• Discussing workplace rules
• Giving health and safety advice
• Talking about required protective clothing
• Describing risks at work
• Discussing employee health and fitness

Grammar

• Have to for obligation
• Don’t have to for lack of necessity
• Must for strong rules and obligations
• Should / shouldn’t for advice
• Comparing have to, must and should

Business skills

• Explaining a workplace incident
• Describing customer or employee experiences
• Reporting events in chronological order
• Expressing reactions and feelings
• Connecting ideas in reports and presentations

Grammar

• Past Perfect for earlier past events
• Past Simple and Past Continuous review
• Past Perfect vs Past Simple
• Joining words: and, but, so, because
• Sequence markers for storytelling

Business skills

• Talking about well-known brands
• Describing where products are made
• Explaining simple production processes
• Discussing customer habits and popularity
• Handling basic business phone calls

Grammar

• Present Simple Passive
• Past Simple Passive
• Present Perfect Passive
• Future Passive with will
• Active vs passive sentence focus

Business skills

• Talking about professional interests
• Describing long-term projects
• Discussing achievements and milestones
• Talking about skills developed over time
• Networking through interests and hobbies

Grammar

• Present Perfect Simple for completed achievements
• Present Perfect Continuous for ongoing activities
• Present Perfect Simple vs Continuous
• How long...? with for and since
• Review of present, past and perfect tenses

Business skills

• Discussing business risks
• Talking about possible future outcomes
• Considering alternative decisions
• Evaluating opportunities and choices
• Discussing career crossroads and next steps

Grammar

• First Conditional for real future possibilities
• Will and might in conditional results
• Second Conditional for hypothetical situations
• Would in hypothetical results
• First vs Second Conditional