ESL Lesson Plan How to Start Your Own Business

Level
B1
Time
90 min
Media
Video + Article
How to Start Your Own Business

Lesson Overview

In this ESL Business lesson, students will explore the essentials of starting their own business. Through engaging activities, they’ll learn key vocabulary, develop a business plan, and practice pitching ideas. The lesson emphasises practical skills, entrepreneurship, and real-world applications to inspire future business leaders.

This ESL Business…

In this ESL Business lesson, students will explore the essentials of starting their own business. Through engaging activities, they’ll learn key vocabulary, develop a business plan, and practice pitching ideas. The lesson emphasises practical skills, entrepreneurship, and real-world applications to inspire future business leaders.

This ESL Business lesson plan that explores how to start your own business is designed with a well-defined structure to provide the necessary support to students, enabling them to make progress and fully enjoy the class.

Activity Layout

  1. Warm Up: Entrepreneurs
  2. Video: New words.
  3. Working with words. 
  4. Video: Comprehension. 
  5. Discussion.
  6. Debate.
  7. Case Studies.
  8. Categories: Vocab game. 

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: 4 Tips: How to Start a Business. 
  2. Writing task. 

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