Investor Meetings
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Investor Meetings

This 90-minute ESL lesson plan for advanced Business English learners focuses on preparing and delivering a successful investor meeting pitch. Students will develop reading and speaking skills through group discussions, role-play, and comprehension exercises centered on key elements of investor meetings. The lesson includes analyzing financial projections, strategic planning, and creating a compelling business pitch for investors.

Skills

  • Can argue a formal position convincingly, responding to questions and comments and answering complex lines of counter-argument fluently, spontaneously and appropriately.
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Based on CEFR
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1

In small groups, discuss the purpose and format of the elevator pitch below and in which business meeting you would expect to hear a pitch like this one.

01:15
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2

Read the text about investor meetings.

3

Answer the following questions in pairs.

4

Match the halves to create sentences.

5

Read the text to learn how to pitch an idea.

6

Answer the following questions.

7

In small groups, debate these questions and prepare to meet with investors to pitch FunBot.

8

Prepare a pitch to introduce FunBot to investors and present it it to the class.

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