LESSON OVERVIEW

In this lesson, students watch a video and use functional language (cleft sentences) to talk about corporate culture. They also learn some vocabulary related to the topic. 

VIDEO & VOCABULARY

In the warm-up activity, students discuss how important some elements of corporate culture are (e.g. dress code, learning and development, company core values). Before watching the video, they brainstorm possible endings to some statements from the video (e.g. The job of the management isn’t…). While watching, students do a jigsaw listening task. They work in pairs and each student has to take notes on four of the eight lessons presented and commented on in the video. After the viewing, students discuss which of the lessons in the video was the most and which one the least useful. After that, students read six questions and have to replace the highlighted words and phrases with those in the box (e.g. morale, best practices, take a hard left). Then they answer the questions which are all related to corporate culture.

CLEFT SENTENCES & SPEAKING

This part of the lesson starts with students reading six sentences and choosing one they relate to most. Then, they need to create statements about corporate culture using the beginnings from the previous exercise (e.g. What I will never accept…, The thing I hate the most…, The only thing that…). After that, students read short descriptions of four corporate cultures (Clan Culture, Adhocracy Culture, Market Culture and Hierarchy Culture) and have to comment on them using some functional language (cleft sentences) to make their answers more expressive. The sentence beginnings are listed in a box to help them. Finally, students discuss whether any of the corporate cultures would work in their companies. They also brainstorm the types of companies which might want to adopt the cultures.