Global Business Traveller
A 24-space board game where adult B1 learners navigate real-world travel scenarios as business professionals. Players speak about booking accommodation, handling airport situations, negotiating in hotels, managing delays, and making spontaneous decisions while travelling. Each prompt creates a genuine communicative gap where players must exchange information, opinions, or reasoning.
A free Board Game for Adults at CEFR B1 level. Topic: Travel.
Speaking prompts on the board
- Ask your partner what type of accommodation they prefer when travelling for business and why.
- You arrive at the airport and your flight is delayed by three hours. Explain what you would do.
- Act out checking in at a hotel reception desk. Your partner is the receptionist.
- Your team must agree: what is the most important thing to do before an international business trip?
- Describe a time when you had a problem during travel and how you solved it.
- Ask your partner how they usually book their flights and whether they prefer direct or connecting flights.
- You are at a restaurant in a foreign country and the food is not what you ordered. What do you say?
- Stand up and mime packing a suitcase for a week-long business trip. Your team guesses what you pack.
- Compare travelling by train and travelling by car. Which is better for business trips and why?
- You have 60 seconds to convince your team that your city is the best place to visit for business.
- Ask your partner if they have ever missed a flight or train and what happened.
- Explain how you would handle a situation where your hotel room is not ready when you arrive.
- Your team must agree on the best time of year to travel for business in Poland.
- Act out a conversation with a taxi driver who does not understand where you want to go.
- Describe your ideal business hotel room and explain what features are most important to you.
- If you could travel anywhere in the world for work, where would you go and what would you do there?
- Ask your partner what languages they speak and how this helps them when travelling abroad.
- You have 30 seconds to present your most memorable business trip and why it was important.
- Stand up and mime using a self-check-in machine at an airport. Your partner guesses what you are doing.
- Explain what documents and items you always carry in your carry-on bag when flying.
- Compare the advantages and disadvantages of staying in a hotel versus an Airbnb for business travel.
- Ask your partner about their experience with travel insurance and whether they think it is necessary.
- Describe a cultural difference you have noticed or experienced while travelling for business.
- Your team must agree: what advice would you give to a first-time business traveller?