budgeting

Lesson plans

Colleagues at an office Christmas party smiling an drinking champagne

Planning the office Christmas party

Vocabulary: event planning (budget, venue, catering, guests, entertainment)
Vocabulary: food and drinks (buffet, open bar, spirits, dietary restrictions)
Video: 5 tips for office party holiday planning

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B1 / B2

Business

4:13

a binder called retirement plan with glasses, pen and a calculator

Can you retire in your 30s? (The FIRE movement)

Vocabulary: collocations about retirement
Video: What is the FIRE movement
Speaking: Conversation questions, debate

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B1 / B2

Lifestyle

3:56

a child puts money in a jar with the inscription pocket money

Should we give children an allowance?

Vocabulary: chores (e.g. ironing, doing the laundry, doing the washing-up)
Vocabulary: budgeting and money (lend, to budget, allowance, pocket money)
Confusing words: raise, bring up, educate, look after

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B1 / B2

Lifestyle

3:00

Idiom and phrasal verb boosters