Economic bubbles

The main goals of this ESL lesson plan are to:

• – expand vocabulary related to economic bubbles and irrational behavior while exploring market psychology and financial crashes;
• – practice advanced language skills through word identification games, synonym matching, gap-fill exercises, error correction, and reading comprehension abilities;
• – watch a video about what causes economic bubbles and engage in discussions about stock market crashes and trader experiences during market volatility.

This Advanced lesson plan focuses on expanding vocabulary related to economic bubbles and irrational behavior.

Warm-up
We’ll kick things off with an engaging game where students will guess words connected to market bubbles from the clues provided.

Video
We’ll watch a video called “What causes economic bubbles?” After the video, the students will be asked to fill in gaps in sentences.

Exercises
Here the students will have fun by finding bubble-related words in a word table. They will also be tasked with matching synonyms to the words in the text.

In another exercise, they will fill in gaps in sentences from the provided list of words.

Finally, the students will look for mistakes in sentences.

Reading
The students will read a short memo about a bad day on the stock exchange and discuss how the trader must have felt.

Discussion
To finish up, there will be a discussion based on a word cloud related to market crashes.