Telling Your Founder Story

B1 · Intermediate1 hr 7 minStartup EnglishLesson 2 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: tell a 45-second founder story that proves your connection to the problem — the moment of realisation, the insight, why you, and the bridge to the product.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Why you, why this

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Telling Your Founder Story

    Read a 285-word text about Telling Your Founder Story

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Telling Your Founder Story Vocabulary

    8 items

  3. Reading10 min

    Reading: Two model founder stories

    Read a 257-word text about Two model founder stories

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Founder-story language

    Gap-fill exercise, 6 items

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Strong story or weak story?

    Matching exercise, 6 items

  6. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Practice: Sharing Your Founder Story

    Role-play: You are explaining to an investor why you started your company. (4 lines)

  7. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your founder story, live

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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authenticrealizationcatalyzepersistmemoirinsightbackstoryinefficiency

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