Summary
This downloadable PDF lesson plan for English teachers explores the future of money. This ESL class material helps B2 students discuss digital currencies, CBDCs, and blockchain, improving their financial literacy and advanced English communication skills.
This comprehensive lesson plan guides students through the complex world of modern finance. Activities start with a discussion on personal payment habits, followed by a vocabulary matching exercise on key financial terms. A listening gap-fill sharpens comprehension, while a reading about a digital currency launch builds critical thinking. The lesson culminates in a dynamic role-play debate, allowing students to apply all the new language in a practical, engaging scenario.
Activities
- Students begin by discussing their payment habits and opinions on cryptocurrencies, activating prior knowledge and setting the stage for the lesson's financial theme.
- A vocabulary matching task introduces eight essential terms for modern finance, including 'blockchain,' 'DeFi,' and 'CBDC,' ensuring students can navigate the topic.
- The lesson includes a listening exercise where students complete a short monologue about the evolution of finance, tuning their ears to the specific vocabulary in context.
- A reading comprehension activity based on a fictional news article about a new digital currency challenges students to analyze its impact on banking and privacy.
- The class concludes with a structured role-play, where students debate the future of money from the perspectives of a central banker, a crypto advocate, and more.
Vocabulary focus
This lesson focuses on the modern financial lexicon. Students will learn and practice key terms essential for discussing digital finance, including: blockchain, volatility, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), financial inclusion, legacy systems, peer-to-peer (P2P), and fiat currency. These terms are reinforced through matching and discussion activities.
Grammar focus
The grammar point is modals of speculation and probability. Students will learn how to express degrees of certainty about future financial trends using 'must be,' 'might/may/could be,' and 'can't be.' A practice exercise challenges them to rewrite sentences to accurately reflect the level of certainty, enhancing their ability to discuss uncertain future events with nuance.
