Lesson Overview

Do you have a side-hustle? Are you a Freelancer? Explore the interesting topic of self-employment with your B2+ business students. There is a great article, awesome video, and grammar task.

This ESL business self-employment lesson starts off multiple topic-related activities to get your students talking! Next, they have to complete a detailed vocabulary task, where they discuss the different types of employment, and the impact on the economy. 

A great article is presented to the students about tips for finding your own side-hustle. Afterwards, there is a speaking task, where students are given a selection of side-hustle options, and they have to decide which is the best option for themselves. 

The fifth activity in this detailed lesson is video analysis. The video presents differing tips and advice for freelancers; all of which are broken down and discussed in this section. Following that, students get to bring everything they have learned together in the debate section. Activities: 

1. Topic-based warm up. 
2. Types of employment.
3. How to find your side hustle? 
4. Video analysis 1. 
5. Video analysis 2. 
6. The disadvantages of self-employment. 
7. Debate. 

Homework

This ESL business self-employment lesson plan is complete with a superb homework task where students are tasked with reading about the benefits of self-employment. Then, there is an excellent writing task, where students are given a series of questions about the benefits of self-employment. Activities: 

1. Article. 
2. Writing exercises.