This Intermediate ESL lesson plan focuses on building vocabulary and discussion skills around dog grooming as a business topic.
Warm-up
From a list of traits, students choose top three things that influence the success of a dog grooming business.
Video
Students watch a video titled “I Bring In $1.3 Million A Year As A Dog Grooming Artist.” After viewing, they complete a matching exercise connecting sentence beginnings with appropriate endings based on the video content.
Exercises
Language skills are reinforced through various activities. In the first exercise, students are tasked with putting words into correct categories. In the second exercise, students complete phrases with given verbs. Finally, they fill gaps in sentences with given adjectives.
Reading
Students read a text about the dog grooming business and answer questions about the text to test reading comprehension.
Discussion
Students read three scenarios and discuss what could have been done differently.
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