In this C1 level lesson plan, students examine financial market crashes through a progressive series of language activities, including error correction, vocabulary completion, text analysis, and culminating in nuanced discussion questions that require critical thinking.
Warm-up
Students analyze two financial crash scenarios and discuss them.
Video
Students watch an informative video titled “US stocks drop at opening amid historic rout in foreign markets.” 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. Students find and correct mistakes in sentences. In the second exercise, they complete words by filling in the missing letters to create expressions related to market crashes. Lastly, they find the phrases in the text that correspond to each of the given definitions.
Reading
Students read a text about market crashes and answer questions to test reading comprehension.
Discussion
Students answer thought-provoking questions on the subject matter.
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very useful for my advanced students. much appreciated!
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