Summary
This downloadable PDF lesson plan for English teachers provides C1-level ESL class material on data privacy and GDPR. This business English lesson helps students discuss compliance, obligations, and corporate responsibility in a professional context. This lesson guides advanced students through the complex topic of GDPR.
Activities include a warm-up discussion on data privacy, a vocabulary matching exercise with key legal terms, and a listening task to improve comprehension. Students will also read an article about a data breach, practice formal grammar using the passive voice, and learn useful phrases for compliance meetings. The lesson culminates in a realistic role-play where students must negotiate a solution to a data privacy dilemma.
Activities
- Students start by discussing their personal experiences with online data sharing, activating their existing knowledge and setting the stage for the lesson's core topic of digital privacy.
- A key vocabulary section introduces essential GDPR terminology like 'data controller' and 'pseudonymization' through a matching exercise, followed by a reading task about a fictional data breach.
- The lesson includes a listening exercise where students fill in the gaps in a short summary about GDPR, sharpening their ability to catch specific details in a business context.
- The final task is a collaborative role-play where students, as a marketing manager, developer, and data protection officer, must discuss and agree on a GDPR-compliant plan for a new app feature.
Vocabulary focus
This lesson focuses on professional vocabulary related to data privacy and corporate compliance. Students will learn and practice key terms such as compliance, explicit consent, data breach, pseudonymization, scrutiny, ramifications, rectify, oversight, and hefty. These words are crucial for discussing legal and technical aspects of data protection in a business environment.
Grammar focus
The grammar section concentrates on the formal language of obligation and corporate communication. It highlights the use of modals like must and have to to express requirements. The primary focus is on transforming active sentences into the passive voice, which is common in legal and official contexts to maintain objectivity and formality.
