| LESSON OVERVIEW
The main objectives of the lesson are to:
- read and understand an article about a 14-year-old employee,
- work with collocations,
- improve speaking and critical thinking skills.
This CRC lesson focuses on the topic of talent, age and employment. Students discuss the advantages and disadvantages of being different ages, talk about prodigies, and discuss people who became famous when they were children.
B2 / Upper Intermediate30 min
45 minCritical Reading ClubFree / Unlimited Plan
This is a Critical Reading Club worksheet. With this format, students need to read an online article at home and do the exercises in the classroom. Learn more about how to use such worksheets and their benefits in our post.
ACTIVITIES
In the warm-up activity, students talk about different age groups and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each. The teacher can also decide to give students an additional task to work a bit with vocabulary. First, students choose correct collocations (e.g. tackle a person, miss out on social life, act with maturity, etc.). Then, they read a definition of a prodigy, look at the sentences and say whether the sentences describe a prodigy. After that, students think about the time when they were 14 and compare their lives to the boy’s from the article life. They also discuss questions and talk about employing young people. As a wrap-up activity, students discuss stories of famous children and talk about different aspects of their lives.
ARTICLE
WORKSHEETS
Love it! I’m definitely gonna use it with my students.
Thanks! Let us know how it goes 🙂
I don’t understand the teacher’s note for exercise 2 and I’m teaching this class on Monday.
“Before students start discussing the statements, ask them to choose the correct collocation.” Do I give the student both the options ‘miss out on a bus or miss out on social life’ and ask them if both collocations are correct? Just now sure how to phrase this with students! It’s a bit confusing – help!
Hi! You got it right 🙂 You should read both collocations and let students choose the correct one. You can also tell them that both collocations might be correct as well.
Thank you very much for replying! Can’t wait to teach this lesson now.
Sure, I hope your students enjoy it 🙂
This is a free lesson plan, but in order to read the article this material is based on, you have to buy a subscription from Business Insider. This way my students cannot access the article, unfortunately, and it cannot be considered free anymore.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We believe the article shouldn’t be behind a paywall, especially since we can access it for free.
Hi there! It used to be free because I remember accessing it without any problems, but now it’s behind a paywall 🙁 For now, I’m just gonna use a different article. I’ve found a brief one on Firstpost.
Hi! Can you check out this article and see if you can access it?
Hi! Can you check out this article and see if you can access it?
Hello! It is totally accessible. Thank you so much!
Hello, I cannot access the article. I just upped my subscription thinking it was part of the Unlimited plan but this is a free lesson. Every time I try and read the article I get a pop up to subscribe to a newsletter and I cannot get the article. Regards, Sarah
Hi! Can you check out this article and see if you can access it?