C1 Legal Lesson Flow

What is a Lesson Flow?

Lesson Flow is a sequence of lessons, designed to take your student on a particular learning journey. A flow contains 15-20 lessons covering the four skills as well as vocabulary, grammar and functional language. The additional follow-up lesson suggestions offer extra opportunities for reading and speaking practice, as well as targeted grammar exercises related to the topic. Lesson Flows are compilations of pre-existing ESL Brains lessons, but with a new purpose of helping teachers navigate learning in a more structured way. They serve as guidelines that you can and should customize by adding or removing lessons based on your students’ needs.

What’s inside the C1 Legal Lesson Flow?

This lesson flow is perfect for students in legal professions as well as anyone who needs to communicate effectively in legal contexts. It introduces a wide range of vocabulary and offers ample speaking opportunities to develop confident legal English communication skills.

Developing language skills

With this C1 Legal Lesson Flow, your students will work on:

• speaking skills while talking about legal precedents, antitrust laws, corporate misconduct, lawsuits against the state, ESG, negotiating conflict, legalese and its usefulness, logical fallacies, ethics, nepotism, climate activism, financial crimes, the penitentiary system, forensic science, the journalism crisis, free speech and democracy, culture clashes; while debating UBI; while role-playing different situations using polite language;
• listening skills with videos about ethics, gene editing, money laundering, why journalism has been changing, crime detection technology, backlash on ESG; with news reports about climate activists, a big merger, a businessperson who gave his company to a foundation, a group of teens suing the state, AI and copyrights; with podcasts about nepotism, one about negotiating conflicts and one about UBI; with explanatory videos on forensics, American penitentiary system and logical fallacies; with a funny video about outdated laws;
• reading skills with articles on legalese and one about solutions to the issue of space junk; with texts about infamous fraud cases and one about the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict model.

Improving grammar, vocabulary and functional language

The Flow also makes your students learn and practise:

• vocabulary: legal vocabulary related to financial crime, court cases, copyright, antitrust laws, precedents and proving one’s guilt; useful vocabulary to assess arguments and describe abstract concepts; collocations related to investigations, to negotiating conflict, to welfare state and to cross-cultural communication; words related to copyright, mergers and acquisitions; compound adjectives;
• functional language: polite language, advanced phrases to express and support opinions.

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