🌐 International Trade

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📦 Import/Export & Supply Chain Logistics 2026

Added: January 2026 • Level: High Elementary to Pre-Intermediate • Comprehensive Binder

Vietnam. Thailand. Drone deliveries. AI robots loading cargo at the port. Modern supply chains look nothing like they did five years ago, and the vocabulary keeps evolving with them. This 2026 lesson covers the language of modern logistics with terms like warehouse, clear customs, tariffs, source products, handle cargo, bulk, overseas, delays, load containers, and track. Activities include a classroom listening quiz with Marcus and his teacher, a Maya & Dante dialogue about a delayed Vietnam shipment, a passive voice role play at LogiTech Warehouse with new employee Ethan, critical thinking worksheets on nearshoring and sustainability, and two Talk Zones — the Shipping Problem Hotline and Start Your Import Business.

🚢 Shipping & Logistics Language Workout

Added: September 2026 • Level: Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate • Test Prep Series (T1–T6) with audio

A parcel goes missing. A shipment sits at the harbor over the weight limit. A customer wants it express, yesterday. This test-prep workout drills the English that logistics actually runs on, with vocabulary like harbor, cargo plane, shipping agent, transit, declare, express delivery, container ship, tracking number, surcharge, import duty, and time-sensitive. Students build the words with an audio visual vocabulary sheet and quiz, practise the third conditional on shipping mistakes (If we had used a tracking number, the parcel wouldn’t have got lost), follow eight audio directions around the Urban Oasis city map, sort formal and informal business verbs (authorize / give the green light, terminate / end), and finish with a four-part mini-test in the TOEIC style.

🔌 Semiconductors: The Chip Industry & Global Trade

Added: April 2026 • Level: Pre-Intermediate and Above • Comprehensive Binder

One company in the Netherlands. One island in the Pacific. The entire modern economy quietly depends on both. The chips inside every phone, car, and AI server are designed in one country, fabricated in another, and finished somewhere else — making semiconductors perhaps the most globally interconnected product ever made. Key vocabulary includes wafers, transistors, EUV, Moore’s Law, nanometers, lifeblood, choke points, fabricate chips, export controls, and skills gap. Activities include a Zane & Noa dialogue about smartphone teardowns, a Second Conditional role play between HR Director Maya and Professor Kwon on the chip skills shortage, three critical thinking sets covering chip technology, geopolitics, and the industry overall, a bar chart reading on global manufacturing share, and a Talk Zone with career cards — Chip Design Engineer, EUV Machine Technician, Export Policy Advisor, and Silicon Wafer Inspector.

💰 A Deep Dive into the Language of Tariffs

Added: 2026 • Level: Intermediate

With tariffs dominating international trade headlines, students need vocabulary to understand and discuss these critical economic policies. This focused lesson covers import duties, trade barriers, protectionism, retaliatory tariffs, and trade agreements. Students explore how tariffs affect prices, supply chains, and international relations through vocabulary exercises, discussion questions, and real-world case studies from current trade disputes.

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