ESL Pals Cringey Corporate Jargon Lesson Plan
ESL Pals Cringey Corporate Jargon Lesson Plan is a ninety-minute advanced business English class on why corporate jargon survives and why people keep reaching for it. The sequence runs from a warm-up and a quiz, through a video with comprehension work, a debate and a discussion, into three sets of jargon activities that match phrases to plain English and decode real business language, and finishes with a writing task for homework.
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How It Helps Your Business English
The class runs for ninety minutes at C1 to C2 and is built on a video and an article. It moves through a warm-up, a quiz, comprehension work on the video, a debate and a discussion, then three parts of jargon activities in which learners match jargon to plain English, decode business phrases and practise professional wording. Homework is a writing task on why people use jargon.
Read the activity list to see the shape of the class before you commit a session to it, and watch the video, which carries the examples the tasks are built on. Teach the parts in order: the quiz shows what your learners recognise, the debate makes them argue a position, and the three activity sets move them from recognising jargon to saying the same thing plainly. The homework task takes the work beyond the lesson.
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