Lesson Overview

This lesson plan on ESL business risk is an excellent resource for advanced students who want to improve their conversation skills and learn common risk describing and collocation words. 

The lesson plan begins with a fun risk-identification activity, followed by engaging discussion questions that encourage students to reflect on risk in their personal and professional lives.

Students then practice using risk describing words through a definition task and a speaking activity based on real-life scenarios. Next, they create their own risk collocations and complete exercises related to a Business Insider video on the Olympics.

After watching the video, students use risk vocabulary to discuss the content before delving into a detailed analysis of quotes from the video. Finally, students study the grammar point of the second conditional and practice using it in a class discussion. Activity layout 

1. Warm up.
2. Discussion.
3. Describing risk.
4. Risk collocations.
5. Why hosting the Olympics games isn’t worth it.
6. Video analysis.
7. Grammar: Conditionals.

Homework

The homework portion of the lesson plan includes a listening and writing exercise based on a video, as well as discussion questions that require students to apply idioms related to risk. Activity layout 

1. Video: Tokyo Olympics.
2. Risk Idioms.