Online Business

A selection of business English discussion questions.

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  1. Do you enjoy shopping online? What sort of goods or services do you buy?
  2. What are the main reasons why people choose to shop online?
  3. What are the main disadvantages of online shopping? Will technology solve these problems in future?
  4. Would you like to live in a world where all shopping was done online?
  5. Do you enjoy seeing pop-up adverts online? Are they effective?
  6. Do you respond to adverts on social media sites like Facebook? Is this a good way to market a product?
  7. Can you think of an interesting way of using YouTube to market a product?
  8. Can you think of a creative way of using a social networking site like Twitter to promote a product?
  9. Does your company have an online marketing strategy? Does it need one?
  10. Do you have a profile on the business networking site LinkedIn? Could this be useful for you?
  11. How has online business changed the typical consumer over the last 20 years?
  12. Are you comfortable that some businesses collect data about users’ online activity?
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General Topics

Air Travel, Animals, Appearance, Art, Childhood, Cinema, Crime, Eating Out, Education, Environment, Ethics, Fame, Family, Fashion, Food, Football (Soccer), Friendship, The Future, Globalisation, Health, History, Holidays (Vacations), House and Home, The Internet, Language, Language Learning, Life, Literature, Marriage, The Media, Money, Music, Personality, Politics, Religion, Romance, Science, Shopping, Smartphones, Sport, Technology, Time, Town and City, Transport, Travel, University, Video Games, War, Weather, Work.


Business Topics

Advertising, Brands, Building Relationships, Change, Communication, Competition, Consultants, Crisis Management, Cultures, Customer Service, Employment Trends, Ethics, First Impressions, Human Resources, International Marketing, International Markets, Job Satisfaction, Leadership, Management Styles, Marketing, Mergers and Acquisitions, Money, New Business, Online Business, Organisation, Project Management, Raising Finance, Risk, Strategy, Success, Team Building, Training, Travel.


Grammar Topics

Present Simple, Present Continuous, Present Perfect, Present Perfect Continuous, Past Simple, Past Continuous, Used to, Have to, Going to / Pres. Continuous, Going to / Will, Comparatives, Superlatives, First Conditional, Second Conditional, Third Conditional, Mixed Conditionals, Should, Should have, Can, Could, Can / Could / Be able to, Is done / Was done, Being done / Been done.

How to use the online business ESL discussion questions

It is recommended that you download the online business ESL discussion questions in PDF format using one of the links above. The best way to encourage classroom interaction is to download and print the online business discussion questions in the 'pairs' or 'threes' PDF format and then divide the questions by cutting along the dotted lines. This allows students to take turns asking and answering the online business discussion questions in groups of two or three. Alternatively, you could use the 'cards' format to distribute the questions to any number of students to ask and share.

It is advisable to prepare students for using these discussion questions by first introducing them to the topic of online business in an interesting and engaging way. An anecdote, quiz question or a related image or video could all be used to achieve this. Depending on the level, it may also be necessary to pre-teach any challenging vocabulary related to online business contained in the discussion questions.

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