Lesson Overview

As always with our business ESL conversation classes, the lesson begins with a fun warm up and vocabulary exercise, before presenting students with a series of thought-provoking questions.

The video is ‘Why So Many CEOs Are Engineers’ by Newsthink, which explores and explains the growing trend of workers with engineering degrees or backgrounds entering senior management levels in the corporate world. Activities: 

1. College degrees.
2. Describe a CEO. 
3. Video discussion. 
4. Debate. 
5. Quotes. 
6. Would you rather. 

Homework

There is an excellent homework task to supplement this awesome ESL B2 business lesson plan on CEOs and college degrees. Students are presented with an excellent article before being asked to write answers to challenging questions.

1. Article. 
2. Article vocabulary task. 
3. Article writing task.