Level: Upper Intermediate to Advanced students
Well, it's been one year since the financial meltdown. If you have banking students as I do, I think it's really worth presenting them with an activity on the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
I'm a bit of a news junkie so I tend to follow links to new and varied sources. The PBS documentary news series - Frontline - is certainly among the best and one of my favorites. They have 83 full-hour documentaries available online. (I've watched at least 20 of them already) The episode regarding the meltdown is called Breaking the Bank which you can find here:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/breakingthebank/view/
You can get the PBS teacher's guide with discussion questions here:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/meltdown/meltdown.pdf
Tip: I will sometimes ask students to watch videos for homework and sometimes show them videos in class. You need to gauge whether you think they will actually do the homework or not. Many of my business students are very busy people so it is understandable if they don't manage the time outside of class. However, without putting too much of a point on it, you should always try to encourage them to do more outside of class to expand their contact time with the second language. (And then again, it's often a nice change of pace for students to get to watch the occasional video in class.)
Enjoy the lesson!
Cheers,
Maurice
www.voiceone.fi
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