Advice for small business owners

The main goals of this ESL lesson plan are to:

• – focus on practicing advanced vocabulary and complex concepts related to small business management and entrepreneurship;
• – practice categorization activities, gap-fill exercises, reading comprehension, and discussion skills through business-focused content;
• – watch a video about best advice to small business owners and analyze startup-related charts through various interactive exercises.

This Intermediate ESL lesson focuses on practicing advanced vocabulary and complex concepts related to artificial general intelligence.

Warm-up

We’ll start with an activity where students categorize phrases related to small businesses into the correct group.

Video

A viewing of “Best Advice to Small Business Owners” will serve as a conversation starter. Post-viewing, we’ll explore the video’s key takeaways through a series of questions.

Exercises

Students will engage in a fun activity of putting small business phrases into correct categories. In the second exercise the students will fill the gaps in the text with words given in a box.

Reading

A reading exercise involves a short text with advice for small business owners and answering a series of questions to check for reading comprehension.

Discussion

The lesson concludes with an exercise where students discuss a chart related to the startups.