ESL Lesson Plan Salary Secrets

Level
B2
Time
90 min
Media
Video + Article
Salary Secrets

Lesson Overview

This B2 Business English lesson explores the tricky world of salaries and pay transparency in the workplace. You and your students will learn key vocabulary and phrases to talk about salaries, pay negotiations, and unfair pay practices.

Through engaging ESL exercises, learners practice reading job postings, discussing salary ranges, and sharing…

This B2 Business English lesson explores the tricky world of salaries and pay transparency in the workplace. You and your students will learn key vocabulary and phrases to talk about salaries, pay negotiations, and unfair pay practices.

Through engaging ESL exercises, learners practice reading job postings, discussing salary ranges, and sharing opinions about fair pay. Activities include analyzing vague or unclear job ads, guessing salaries, and debating controversial workplace issues, helping students connect English learning to real-life work situations.

Engaging discussions, realistic scenarios, and structured tasks make this lesson a practical way to develop Business English skills, improve critical thinking, and build confidence in talking about sensitive workplace topics like pay and equality.

Activity Layout

  1. Warm Up: Guess the Salary.  
  2. Key Words.
  3. Video: Comprehension
  4. What Would You Do?
  5. Discussion.
  6. Job Posts: Clear / Unclear? 
  7. Job Postings: Examples. 
  8. Debate. 

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: Salary Secrets
  2. Article: Writing

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