Master the vocabulary of viral marketing and consumer trends with this flipped-classroom Business English lesson plan built around the Forbes case study of the Stanley Cup, the 110-year-old water bottle that became a global status symbol.
Main objectives of this material
- Develop practical real estate and financial vocabulary, including terms such as down payment, take out a mortgage, fixed-interest rate, adjustable rate, security deposit, lease, opportunity cost and pay off the mortgage, through a 16-term vocabulary board, a ten-sentence gap-fill, a ten-item definition-matching task and a 25-card flashcard set.
- Strengthen video comprehension and critical thinking by analysing the TED-Ed case study in three timed parts, answering five open questions, three multiple-choice questions, four data checks and five true-or-false statements, and discussing concrete figures such as Morgan's $50,000 upfront costs, Lisa's $3,600 move-in cost, the roof repair in Year 15 and the 30-year tallies of $1.4 million spent against a $1.3 million home value.
- Learn and practise the language of trends and financial results using climb, skyrocket, drop, plunge, steadily, significantly, the market has changed and put someone at a loss of to describe data in a 30-year financial overview table and in a written housing-trends paragraph.
What students are going to cover
In this lesson, students will explore whether buying a home is really better than renting through the TED-Ed case study of Morgan, who takes out a mortgage on a $400,000 house, and Lisa, who rents next door for $1,800 a month and invests the difference. They will build real estate and personal finance vocabulary with a 16-term vocabulary board, a ten-sentence gap-fill and a definition-matching task on ten words from the video (fraction, upkeep, tallies). Students will strengthen video comprehension in three timed parts with five open questions, three multiple-choice questions, a four-item data check and five true-or-false statements, before a four-question discussion on money and lifestyle. The grammar focus teaches language for describing trends and financial outcomes through a five-row grammar box, a ten-sentence controlled practice and a data-analysis task on a 30-year financial overview table. The homework is a seven-gap vocabulary text plus a 100-120-word writing task; the package adds a 26-term glossary, 25 flashcards and 21 slides. By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to explain the costs of buying and renting with the correct terminology, summarise the financial outcomes of the case study, and describe housing trends with accurate verbs and adverbs.
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💬 Speaking cards to use with this lesson: Read the Chart: Trends & Results