Exploring E-Commerce
ESL Lesson PlansExploring E-Commerce

Exploring E-Commerce

This ESL lesson plan on e-commerce helps advanced learners improve speaking and listening skills while exploring the effects of online shopping on local businesses. Structured into engaging exercises, students will discuss advantages and disadvantages, watch a video for context, match vocabulary, and complete sentence-fill exercises. The lesson concludes with group brainstorming and discussion on solutions to support local shops, reinforcing students’ ability to give detailed presentations on complex topics.

Skills

  • Can give clear, detailed descriptions and presentations on complex subjects, integrating sub-themes, developing particular points and rounding off with an appropriate conclusion.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Warm up: Did you know...?

Read the facts below, and rank them from the most to the least surprising. Explain your choices to your partner.
1
Online shopping began in 1979 with a simple electronic marketplace.
2
Amazon started as an online bookstore in 1994 before expanding.
3
About 70% of online shoppers abandon their carts before purchasing.
4
Mobile shopping accounts for nearly 55% of all online sales today.
5
Social media influences 74% of consumer buying decisions online.
6
Cyber Monday is now bigger than Black Friday for online sales.
Your answer:
2

Advantages and disadvantages of online shopping

3

The impact of the rise of e-commerce on traditional retail businesses

4

Match the phrases from the video to their definitions.

5

Complete the sentences below with the phrases from the video.

6

Make some notes on saving local shops.

7

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