ESL Lesson Plan WHY ARE SO MANY CEOs ENGINEERS?

Level
B2
Time
90 min
Media
Video + Article
WHY ARE SO MANY CEOs ENGINEERS?

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: 

Activity Layout

  1. Warm Up.
  2. College Degrees.
  3. Describe a CEO. 
  4. Video: Analysis
  5. Video: Discussion. 
  6. Debate. 
  7. Quotes. 
  8. Would you rather. 

Homework

As with all adult lesson plans on ESL Pals, there is a homework task to supplement this B2 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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