Streaming wars

In this Advanced ESL lesson plan, students explore the streaming wars through various exercises including gap-filling activities with adjectives and verbs, analytical scenarios comparing expectations versus reality, and text-based comprehension questions.

Warm-up: 

From a list of traits students choose top three things that influence the success of a streaming service.

Video:

Students watch a video titled “Netflix Hit a Subscriber Peak. Here Are 3 Strategies They Might Try to Keep Growing.” 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 complete phrases with given verbs. In the second exercise, they fill gaps in sentences with given adjectives.

Reading:

Students read a text about the streaming wars and answer questions about the text to test reading comprehension.

Discussion:

Students read three scenarios and discuss what could have been done differently.