ESL Lesson Plan Greenwashing: Convo

Level
B1
Time
90 min
Media
Video + Article
Greenwashing: Convo

Lesson Overview

Your students will love this business ESL conversation class as it gives them the opportunity to talk about a modern business topic – greenwashing.

As always with our business ESL conversation classes, the lesson begins with a breakdown of the vocabulary used in the video, before presenting students with a series of thought-provoking questions. The…

Your students will love this business ESL conversation class as it gives them the opportunity to talk about a modern business topic – greenwashing.

As always with our business ESL conversation classes, the lesson begins with a breakdown of the vocabulary used in the video, before presenting students with a series of thought-provoking questions. The video is titled ‘What is Greenwashing’ by Reuters. It explains what greenwashing is, gives examples, and how it is affecting businesses and people. 

Activity Layout

  1. Warm Up.
  2. Video: Key Words. 
  3. Key Words: Activities
  4. Discussion Questions 
  5. Debate. 
  6. Quotes. 
  7. Would you rather. 
  8. Speaking Task

Homework

As with all adult lesson plans on ESL Pals, there is a homework task to supplement this B1 ESL lesson plan. Students are challenged to complete a series of exercises which follows on from the lesson.

  1. Article. 
  2. Article: Writing Task 

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