Corporate Fraud: When Companies Lie
ESL Lesson PlansCorporate Fraud: When Companies Lie

Corporate Fraud: When Companies Lie

Teach corporate fraud vocabulary with this B2 ESL interactive worksheet for adults. Students explore financial scandals, practice key business English terms in context, and discuss ethics through engaging reading and speaking activities.

Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
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1

Imagine you are members of a company's ethics committee. Read the following six situations.

Working in pairs, decide:

- Acceptable business practice

- Suspicious

- Clearly illegal

  1. A company exaggerates how long its phone battery lasts in an advertisement.
  2. A finance director changes some numbers to make profits look higher this quarter.
  3. An employee reports illegal activity to government authorities.
  4. A manager sells company shares after learning bad news that hasn't been announced yet.
  5. A company follows all legal reporting requirements even though it costs more.
  6. A CEO orders staff to destroy emails before government inspectors arrive.


Which action do you think causes the greatest damage to a company? Why?
2

Read the text paying attention to the words in bold. Discuss their meanings in pairs.

3

Match the words with the definitions.

4

Sort the words into the right groups.

5

Complete the sentences with the words from the box.

6

Role play the situation.