- Levels: B1B2C1
- Lesson Types: Lesson Plans
- Recommended for: Business EnglishDownload and Go
- Themes: Business
🕑 60 minutes
🎚 B1, B2, C1
🎯 business vocabulary, acronyms, first and second conditionals for problems and solutions, going to for plans
🕑 0-5 minutes
– Print one worksheet for each student.
– Print the Teacher’s Insights or keep them at hand as they contain the answers to the exercises.
Kickoff: speaking intro on how students use AI
AI Models: match types of AI to what they do
Acronym Test: learn LLM, GPT, AGI, API, RAG…
AI-Native Checklist: score yourself on what employers want
Advantages and Risks: sort business vocabulary into advantages and risks
Get AI Fit: six tips and a plan with going to
Find the Problem: questions and conditionals for problems and solutions
Problem-Finding Chat: find problems at work, then imagine solutions
Fun Quiz: fun filler quiz on AI history
Debate: agree or disagree about AI and work
Get your students ready for work with AI, from LLMs and agents to real problem-solving, with this ESL lesson plan and printable worksheet for B1 to C1 learners.
Detailed Description
In today’s lesson, adults and older teens look at what employers mean by an “AI-native” worker and how to become one, while they practise business vocabulary, AI acronyms and conditionals for problems and solutions.
The lesson begins with a kickoff conversation about how students use AI now, followed by a matching exercise on the main types of AI (chatbots, image and video tools, voice AI, agents, coding assistants and open-weight models) and an acronym test with LLM, GPT, AGI, API, RAG and more.
Next, students tick an AI-native checklist to get their own AI fitness score, sort the advantages and risks of AI at work, and read six tips for getting “AI fit” before they make a four-week plan with going to.
The lesson then turns to a skill AI can’t do for you: finding the real problem before jumping to a solution. Students learn questions for finding the root cause and the first and second conditionals, solve four short cases, and then find problems in their own company or an imagined one.
The lesson ends with a fun filler quiz on AI history and a debate about AI and work.
English language learning material for ESL and EFL teachers, for both classroom and online lessons. Last updated October 2026.