Resumes, CVs and Email Cover Letters - Business English Worksheets and Activities

Resume Basics

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
Business English Resumes Worksheet - Reading and Writing Exercises: Identifying, True or False, Writing Sentences, Writing a Basic Resume

Here is a handy resume worksheet to help students learn basic resume conventions and practice writing a simple resume. Students begin by reading a job... read more

CV Basics

Upper-intermediate (B2) 45 minutes
Business English CV Worksheet - Reading, Vocabulary and Writing Exercises: Matching, Comprehension Questions, Gap-fill, Writing a CV

This comprehensive CV worksheet helps students learn and practice language and vocabulary commonly used in a CV as well as how CVs are written and... read more

Cover Letter Clinic

Upper-intermediate (B2) 20 minutes
Business English Email Cover Letters Activity - Reading, Grammar and Vocabulary: Error Correction

In this free email cover letter activity, students identify and correct common grammar and spelling mistakes in a cover letter email. This activity provides practice in accuracy and a model for an email cover letter... read more

Email Cover Letters

Upper-intermediate (B2) 45 minutes
Business English Email Cover Letters Worksheet - Reading, Vocabulary and Writing Exercises: Gap-fill, Matching, Sentence Completion - Speaking Activity

In this useful email cover letter worksheet, students learn and practice the key elements of writing an email cover letter. First, students read an email cover letter... read more

Internal Promotion Email Cover Letters

Upper-intermediate (B2) 40 minutes
Business English Email Cover Letters Worksheet - Reading, Vocabulary and Writing Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill, Writing an Email

In this email cover letters worksheet, students learn phrases for writing internal promotion email cover letters and then practice them by writing the body of an email... read more

Tackling Tenses

Upper-intermediate (B2) 25 minutes
Business English Email Cover Letters Activity - Grammar and Vocabulary: Gap-fill, Matching

Here is an insightful email cover letter activity to help students review tenses and standard phrases in an email cover letter. First, students read the phrase on their card, decide where to put it in the email cover letter,... read more