| LESSON OVERVIEW
This ESL lesson discusses the thorny issue of pay secrecy and focuses on vocabulary connected with getting paid. TED Talk by David Burkus called “Why you should know how much your co-workers get paid” is the key point of this worksheet that will kick off a lively discussion. The lesson was designed for HR professionals, however, it works well with other working adults too.
VOCABULARY
The worksheet is divided into two sections: vocabulary & video/discussion. The lesson starts with a lexical exercise in which students must put words in right categories. Next, students will practise using new vocabulary by filling in gaps in sentences to see how they work in context. Exercise 3 is a comprehensive grammar task that focuses on various tenses. Students will have to identify where tenses are used wrongly and correct the mistakes. In order to give more opportunity to reinforce new vocabulary, students have to discuss in pairs whether they agree or disagree with the statements from exercise 2.
VIDEO COMPREHENSION
The next page starts with a pre-watching activity where students need to get the meaning of idioms used in the video from example sentences. Afterwards, students watch the TED talk and go to the last activity which contains discussion points based on the video. This can be done in pairs or as a class activity (depending on the group size). Remember that this lesson discusses money and salary which for many people might be a controversial topic, so tread lightly 
WORKSHEETS
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Thanks Stan, a great topic to discuss and a fantastic lesson to go with the video, nice work!
Your welcome, Steve!
Statement 2 a) has a mistake in it (was recently been closing)
also b) and h) in that exercise (migrant workers “were” discriminated against, etc.) besides mistakes it’s an interesting pdf.
okay, same mistake made here, now I understand this exercise. thanks for this interesting task!
Sorry, I skimmed over the task without reading the next one
Makes perfect sense now.
It’s okay, it happened to others as well!
Brilliant! It really got the students talking.
Thank you!
That’s great! Thanks for leaving a comment!
Thank you. It is a good lesson that sparked a good discussion with my students
Great class and pairs well with the new bossless workplace reading!
Thanks for the comment, Hugh! It’s an excellent idea to pair this lesson with that CRC lesson on bossless workplaces. If anyone else wants to try that combination out, here’s a link: https://eslbrains.com/could-a-bossless-workplace-work/
Hi Stan,
Please take a look at pg. 7 B and D and also pg 8. H. Is/ are …. Thank you
Vicota, please see the next task
These mistakes are there on purpose – the next task is about students finding and fixing them 