Giving examples practice – Economics vocabulary
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Economics vocabulary and giving examples phrases speaking practice, brainstorming and error correction.
Lesson Plan Content:
Giving examples practice – Economics vocabulary
Student A
Without showing your worksheet to your partner, give examples of things in one of the categories below until your partner guesses what category you chose, with only one guess allowed per hint. Please use a different giving examples phrase for each sentence (so no repeating phrases like “For example”). After your partner guesses the category correctly, they will say if the examples you gave were the best examples or not and/ or try to add more (using different example phrases if they can).
- Advantages of a low birth rate
- Conglomerates
- Differences between the economy of your country and that of other countries
- Disadvantages of a weak currency
- Disadvantages of government debt
- Infrastructure
- Methods of electronic payment
- Multinational companies
- Personal taxes
- Signs of a bubble economy
- Typical departments in a company
- Ways of cutting costs
- Ways of judging the success of a government’s economic policy
- Ways of tackling unemployment
- Welfare benefits
When your teacher stops you, look at both worksheets and ask each other and then the teacher about any vocabulary which you don’t understand, working together to brainstorm suitable examples each time.
Change groups. Choose one category from either worksheet and take turns thinking of more and more examples of it, using a different giving example phrase each time. The first person to use the same phrase, give the same example or give up loses that round, then do the same for other categories.
Student B
Without showing your worksheet to your partner, give examples of things in one of the categories below until your partner guesses what category you chose, with only one guess allowed per hint. Please use a different giving examples phrase for each sentence (so no repeating phrases like “For example”). After your partner guesses the category correctly, they will say if the examples you gave were the best examples or not and/ or try to add more (using different example phrases if they can).
- Advantages of M&A (mergers and acquisitions) for the companies involved
- Debt
- Deregulation
- Disadvantages of deflation
- Disadvantages of free trade pacts
- Economic advantages of immigration
- Personal investments
- Privatised companies (= formerly state owned companies)
- Raw materials/ Primary goods
- Signs that a country is in recession
- Subsidies
- Things which cause inflation
- Trade barriers
- Ways of increasing exports
- Ways of judging the success of a company
- Ways of reducing staff turnover
When your teacher stops you, look at both worksheets and ask each other and then the teacher about any vocabulary which you don’t understand, working together to brainstorm suitable examples each time.
Change groups. Choose one category from either worksheet and take turns thinking of more and more examples of it, using a different giving example phrase each time. The first person to use the same phrase, give the same example or give up loses that round, then do the same for other categories.
Phrases for giving examples presentation
Phrases for giving examples brainstorming gapfill
Write a word or words in each gap below to make different giving example phrases.
A ______________________________________________________ example
An _____________________________________________________ example
The ____________________________________________________ example
_______________________________________________________ an example
_______________________________________________________ examples
An example ______________________________________________________
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Giving examples phrases error correction
Find and correct one mistake in each section below and put any which you missed above.
A well-known/ famous example A less well-known/ less famous example
A better example A different example
A one example A similar example
A great example A typical example
An obscure example An additional example
An other example
The most well-known example The good example
The most well-known/ most famous example The most obvious example
To give example If I can use an example
I’d like to illustrate my point with an example
There are many examples To give one of the many examples
One of the best examples One of many examples
The examples
An example from my own experience An example that I read
An example what I often use An example which springs to mind
An example to show what I’m talking about An example you might be familiar with
An example which is often used to illustrate this point
Use the partial answers below to help.
Partial answers
The ones with mistakes are in bold, so make sure that you have corrected those.
A well-known/ famous example A less well-known/ famous example
A better example A different example
A one example A similar example
A great example A typical example
An obscure example An additional example
An other example
The most well-known example The good example
The most well-known/ famous example The most obvious example
To give example If I can use an example
I’d like to illustrate my point with an example
There are many examples To give one of the many examples
One of the best examples One of many examples
The examples
An example from my own experience An example that I read
An example what I often use An example which springs to mind
An example to show what I’m talking about An example you might be familiar with
An example which is often used to illustrate this point
Check as a class. Other words not above may also be possible in the gaps, so check if you wrote something different there.
Correct the following phrases
- One of the best example is…
- For example…, and so on.
- …and etc.
Giving examples phrases the same or different
Do these phrases have the same or different meanings? If there are more than two, they are all the same or all different.
- …and so forth./ …and so on./ … etcetera.
- g./ i.e.
- …,e.g…./ ,such as…/ …,like…
- One of the best examples is…/ The best example is…
- The best example is…/ The best illustration of this is…
- An additional example is…/ Another example is…
- An example from my own experience is…/ My favourite example of this is…
- For example/ For instance
Check as a class.
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