Talking about money and finances

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LESSON SET OVERVIEW

With this lesson set, your students will:

  • talk about their spending habits,
  • learn useful vocabulary related to money (collocations and phrases with prepositions),
  • discuss good and bad financial decisions,
  • practise finance vocabulary,
  • learn ways to express numbers,
  • discuss the rising cost of living,
  • watch videos and work on listening comprehension skills.

Throughout the set students get the chance to use vocabulary related to money and finance in various discussions.

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Lesson 1 Start with discussing spending habits and learning money vocabulary
lesson plan on saving money
Standard Lesson 60 min Premium Plan

Are you a saver or a spender?

Lifestyle

Students learn a lot of vocabulary connected with money (e.g. charge, items, overspend, buy on impulse) as well the phrases with prepositions (e.g. spend money on, borrow money from, cut down on). They also have a lot of discussions (including a quiz about spending habits) and do listening comprehension tasks .

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Lesson 2 Continue talking about finance
finance vocabulary
Standard Lesson 60 min Premium Plan

Smart and poor financial decisions

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Students learn finance vocabularyy (e.g. invest in, stocks, budget, lease), read a short text about 401(k), watch a video, discuss some questions about financial decisions and financial tips. Encourage students to use money vocabulary from Lesson 1 in ex. 1 (slide 3) and ex. 8 (slide 22).

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Lesson 3 Wrap it up by teaching students to express numbers
expressing numbers in English
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The rising cost of living

Lifestyle

Before class, students revise numbers and learn some approximations to talk about prices. In class, they analyse a graph presenting average prices, practise expressing numbers, talk about the rising cost of living, and brainstorm ways to save some money. Encourage students to use the vocabulary from Lessons 1 and 2 in the extra activity (last page/slide 29).

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  1. AlexF

    There is nothing new here

    1. Justa

      If you mean the lessons, then, yes, you’re right. Each lesson set consists of lesson plans which have already been published. This means that you might have used some of the lesson plans in the past as standalone lessons. The lesson sets, however, allow you to follow a sequence of lessons in the way that best suits your students’ needs and likes.

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