How Digital Wallets Challenge Traditional Banks

The main goals of this ESL lesson plan are to:

• – broaden students’ vocabulary,
• – improve reading and listening skills,
• – watch a video about digital wallets.

In this intermediate ESL lesson plan, students explore how digital wallets are challenging traditional banking. They discuss payment habits, analyze industry trends, and practice vocabulary related to digital finance.

Warm-up Activity:

Students answer warm-up questions using the provided vocabulary.

Video:

Students watch an informative educational video titled “Apple vs. Banks: The Digital-Wallet War, Explained.” After viewing, they complete a matching exercise that connects sentence beginnings to the correct endings based on the video content to improve listening comprehension.

Exercises:

English skills are reinforced through a variety of activities. Students find and correct grammatical mistakes in sentences. In the second vocabulary exercise, they complete words by filling in missing letters to form alternative expressions.

Reading Comprehension:

Students read an informative text about digital banking and answer comprehension questions about the text to test reading skills.

Discussion:

Students take part in a role-play activity where they try to convince someone to use a digital wallet.