Lesson Overview

This intermediate business lesson plan challenges your students to explore the topic of a 4-day work week. The subject is explored through a short video and an awesome article.

All the exercises in this ESL intermediate business lesson plan are structured to encourage students to speak as much as possible. There is the necessary scaffolding throughout to ensure students feel comfortable when speaking. Nothing makes students feel more comfortable talking in English than giving them the floor to do so. 

This ESL intermediate business lesson plan begins with a fun warmer, and general discussion task which introduces the business theme of the lesson. Next, learners are challenged to comprehend the most relevant vocabulary taken from the video, which is followed by a video analysis task.

This ESL intermediate business lesson plan then moves on to a reading task which explores the pros and cons of a 4-day work week. The final exercise in this class is a debating task. 

Activities:

1. Warm up. 
2. Lead-in discussion questions.
3. Video vocabulary.
4. Video analysis.
5. Article and exercises. 
6. Debate. 

Homework

There is an excellent homework task to supplement this awesome ESL intermediate business lesson plan. Students are challenged to read a tough article which is linked to the topic of the lesson, before being asked to write answers to challenging questions. 

Activities:

1. Article. 
2. Writing task.