Social Situations

B1 · Intermediate1 hr 7 minStartup EnglishLesson 6 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: explain your startup at any dinner table — one analogy, zero jargon, detail only on request — so well that your aunt could re-explain it tomorrow.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: The dinner-party answer

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Social Situations

    Read a 288-word text about Social Situations

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Social Situations Vocabulary

    8 items

  3. Reading10 min

    Reading: The dinner-party version

    Read a 266-word text about The dinner-party version

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Practice: Social Situation Language

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Party-proof or work-mode?

    Matching exercise, 6 items

  6. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Role Play: Casually Mentioning Your Startup

    Role-play: You are at a casual dinner party and someone asks what you do for work. You need to explain your startup in a relaxed, conversational way. (4 lines)

  7. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your dinner party, live

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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