Investor Rights

B2 · Upper-intermediate1 hr 7 minStartup EnglishLesson 4 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: explain board seats, protective provisions and information rights in plain English — and counter one aggressive right with market-standard reasoning.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Who controls what

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Investor Rights

    Read a 280-word text about Investor Rights

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Investor Rights Vocabulary

    8 items

  3. Reading10 min

    Reading: Model responses to the rights section

    Read a 270-word text about Model responses to the rights section

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Practice: rights and provisions

    Gap-fill exercise, 6 items

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Match the right to what it really means

    Matching exercise, 6 items

  6. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Practice: Discussing Investor Rights

    Role-play: An investor is proposing board composition and protective provisions. (4 lines)

  7. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: negotiate the rights package

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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board compositionindependent memberprotective provisionsveto rightsfiduciary dutiespro rata rightsanti-dilution protectionmarket-standard

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