Henry Ford: The Assembly Line and the Five-Dollar Day

All levels48 minFamous PeopleLesson 4 of 6 · Outline

Aims

He cut the price of a car and doubled his workers' pay, and made the work itself far duller. Efficiency and its human cost, for B2 students.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. News10 min

    In the news: The story

    Read a 233-word news story: He made cars affordable, and the work unbearable

  1. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Words to know

    6 items

  2. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: The clock on the wall

    2 discussion questions

  3. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Pay and control

    3 discussion questions

  4. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Efficiency now

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.

assembly linerepetitiveturnoverarithmeticintrusiveget it half right

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