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ESL Lesson Plan: Sales Skills

Sales Skills

Lesson Overview

Discover the world of sales through this complete ESL business lesson plan on sales. With an interesting article and practical exercises, students will dive into the topic.

No matter if your ESL students know about sales or not, this lesson has useful ideas for everyone. In this class, students will learn new words and special sales language. They…

Discover the world of sales through this complete ESL business lesson plan on sales. With an interesting article and practical exercises, students will dive into the topic.

No matter if your ESL students know about sales or not, this lesson has useful ideas for everyone. In this class, students will learn new words and special sales language. They will also break down the six key stages of sales in detail.

This lesson will introduce new ideas, starting interesting discussions. ESL learners will take part in conversations about thought-provoking questions, designed to make their speaking skills better.

A special part of this lesson is the 'role play' activity. Students will act out a scenario and have lively discussions, using the language they just learned. We're sure you'll find a lot of value in this ESL Business lesson plan! Activities: 

Activity Layout

  1. Warm up: Quotes
  2. An elevator pitch.
  3. Video: Sales skills
  4. USPs and objections in sales. 
  5. Six key stages of sales.
  6. Role plays. 
  7. Sales: Debate.

Homework

This ESL business lesson plan on sales is complete with a superb homework task where students are tasked with reading an article, then answering questions. Then, there is an idiom exercise related to ‘negotiation’. Activities: 

  1. Article: Tips to be a successful salesperson. . 
  2. Article questions. 


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