B2+ UNITS 9 and 10 CLIL Teacher's Notes

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CLIL teachers notes B2+ Units

Business, enterprise and entrepreneurship


LESSON OBJECTIVE In this lesson, students learn about business start-ups, the risks and benefits involved, the
importance of a good business plan, funding, and the types of skills required.

LANGUAGE Unit 9: follow in someones footsteps, serve an apprenticeship, drive, end up; Articles;
REFERENCE Prepositions in relative clauses
Unit 10: Gerunds and infinitives; whatever, wherever, whoever, etc.

WARMER 4 Students read the text and answer the questions.

Ask the class whether they have a particular career Answers


in mind for when they finish school. Discuss what 1 Someone who is resilient, determined to succeed,
they plan to do. If a lot of them dont have any ideas, who has drive and is prepared to work hard and take
discuss possible career options as a class. Focus more risks.
on the career paths they could follow rather than 2 Because many businesses dont have a clear or
simply making a list of different jobs. realistic business plan and ignore the importance of
market research.
1 In pairs, students describe what they can see in the 3 In return for shares or a free product.
photos and speculate about what they think the article 4 To buy things such as the product or raw materials and
is about. Discuss and establish that it is about business to pay for things such as advertising, retail space, or
start-ups (starting a new business). website design.

2 In the same pairs, students write two or three questions

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that theyd like to have answered about business start- ? DID YOU KNOW?
ups. They read the text quickly to see if their questions Refer students to the Did you know? box and read
are answered. out the facts. Ask if they find any of the statistics
surprising and, if so, why. Ask students why they
Before reading the text again, write the words in the
think that so many start-ups fail.
Vocabulary focus box on the board and ask students
to find them in the text. Pre-teach some of the words if
necessary. PROJECT
3 Students read the list topics in the article and then read 1 Put students into pairs and read the list of points
the article in more detail to put them in order. When you aloud. They should decide between them who is
check answers, you could write the list of points on the going to choose a successful start-up and who is
board and invite students to come and number them in going to choose an unsuccessful start-up. If students
the correct order. type unsuccessful/failed start-ups or successful
start-ups into a search engine there are plenty of lists
Answers of these available. Try to ensure there is a good mix
1 Examples of different career paths of different start-ups around the class.
2 Benefits of starting your own business 2 In the next lesson, pairs share their information and
3 Risks of starting your own business create a short presentation.
4 The importance of a solid business plan 3 Put pairs together and ask them to take turns to give
5 Traditional funding their presentations to each other.
6 An example of a new way to fund a start-up
7 Skills needed to be a successful entrepreneur
8 Different types of creativity
9 The importance of luck in success

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