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ESL Lesson Plan: How Starbucks Makes Money

How Starbucks Makes Money

Lesson Overview

This ESL business lesson plan explores Starbucks’ business through a great video, and engaging exercises. Your B1-B2 intermediate students will love this lesson plan!

This awesome ESL business starbucks lesson plan starts with a fun warm up activity where learners are tasked with completing a quiz. Following that, students move on to a discussion…

This ESL business lesson plan explores Starbucks’ business through a great video, and engaging exercises. Your B1-B2 intermediate students will love this lesson plan!

This awesome ESL business starbucks lesson plan starts with a fun warm up activity where learners are tasked with completing a quiz. Following that, students move on to a discussion exercise.

Afterwards, the video is studied in-detail through five separate exercises. Each exercise focuses on the vocabulary used in the video, and encourages students to practice and improve their speaking skills. Activities:

Activity Layout

  1. Warm up: Quiz. 
  2. Starbucks questions. 
  3. Video: Starbucks growth. 
  4. Video: Financial crash. 
  5. Howard Schultz vision. 
  6. Starbucks problems. 
  7. Starbucks: Today and tomorrow. 
  8. Debate. 

Homework

This ESL business starbucks lesson plan includes an excellent homework exercise. The homework contains video based exercises. After watching the video, students are tasked with a series of writing activities, which allow ESL learners to express themselves. Activities: 

  1. Video: True or false. 
  2. Video: Discussion questions. 

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