Startups. Chance and Probability

In this lesson, your students will:

• • Read and retell startup dialogues using new probability expressions.
  • Sort and unscramble chance-related phrases for accuracy and fluency.
  • Make sentence transformations using target collocations in context.
  • Watch a short authentic video and discuss trends in future business opportunities.
  • Debate success vs. failure of unusual startup ideas
  • Practice speaking about their own projects.
  • Play a guessing game on real-life startup successes and failures.
  • Reflect on their own chances and goals using the lesson’s vocabulary.

Vocabulary: on the off-chance, bound to happen, etc.

Additional resources: WordWall, LearningApps, Quizlet

This lesson includes 15 exercises that develop students’ ability to understand and accurately use a range of probability and chance expressions in spoken interaction through the engaging context of startup ideas.