ESL Lesson Plan Buy Now, Pay Later

Level
C1-C2
Time
90 min
Media
Video + Article
Buy Now, Pay Later

Lesson Overview

Have you used buy now, pay later services? Your advanced business students will absolutely love this lesson as it gives them many opportunities to explore this fascinating new trend.

This ESL business lesson plan is jam packed with tasks which cover all bases from vocabulary, to reading to speaking. Students begin by discussing the different…

Have you used buy now, pay later services? Your advanced business students will absolutely love this lesson as it gives them many opportunities to explore this fascinating new trend.

This ESL business lesson plan is jam packed with tasks which cover all bases from vocabulary, to reading to speaking. Students begin by discussing the different payment methods available before speaking about how to practically use them

Learners will explore what “buy now, pay later” is through analysing quotes from the video, and will study the benefits and risks of BNPL services in detail. Each task has an accompanying vocabulary task before a series of interesting discussion questions.

Students are challenged to debate a series of statements regarding BNPL, which is educational and a lot of fun. Finally, there is an idioms task related to money which ESL students will find super useful. Activities: 

Activity Layout

  1. Warm up. 
  2. Financial Arrangements.
  3. What is “Buy Now, Pay Later? “
  4. BNPL Benefits 
  5. BNPL Risks. 
  6. Discussion
  7. Let’s Debate. 
  8. Idioms: Money

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: Buy Now, Pay Later
  2. Writing Task. 

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