Lesson Overview

Is your boss spying on you? In this intermediate ESL business surveillance lesson students get to talk about this interesting topic, using an article, video and numerous other activities as a springboard. The grammar point of the present perfect tense is studied in detail.

This ESL business surveillance lesson starts off with a fun trivia task. Next, students complete a speaking task, where they discuss how instructive they believe certain examples of surveillance to be. Afterwards, there is a great article where participants are challenged to read about various benefits related to surveillance, which is accompanied by a series of exercises. 

An awesome video is analysed that presents differing views of surveillance at work, all of which are broken down and discussed in detail. Each view quoted, whereby the student has to complete a vocabulary task and a series of questions. 

There is a detailed grammar activity that looks at the present perfect tense, containing an explanation and activities. Students get to bring everything they have learned together in the final exercise, as they complete a debate task. Activities: 

1. Trivia. 
2. Types of surveillance. 
3. Video analysis. 
4. Article and exercises. 
5. The negative effects of surveillance. 
6. Grammar: Present Perfect tense. 
7. Debate. 

Homework

This ESL business surveillance lesson plan is complete with a superb homework task where students are tasked with studying quotes related to surveillance. Then, there is an excellent video about surveillance at work where students are given a series of questions to answer, making it a perfect writing task. Activities:

1. Writing task: Famous quotes. 
2. Listening and writing: Video analysis.