✓ your name on Zoom is clear (use Latin letters)

✓ your camera is on and mic is off (unmute when

needed)
✓ you are in a quiet area that helps you focus
✓ you have a notebook or a note app ready to
take notes

Ilka X@!

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Theme:
Wealth and Careers
Check your audio and video settings Use Annotate when a screen is shared

Use Latin letters for your name

Ask questions in the Chat or use

Reactions
Share Screen when the teacher asks

Use Save to make screenshots

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The topic of this lesson is the budget.

You will:
• Talk about the economy
• Practise making promises and
predictions about the future
• Discuss local problems and
solutions

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1 When was the last election in your country?
2 Which issues were important?
3 Who won and why did they win?

Be respectful of differences in opinion!

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Can you remember ways to say…

Up Down
Increase Lower
Raise Cut
improve reduce
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Talking about the future – What are the differences?

1 We plan to lower taxes.

2 We hope to make everyone feel richer.
3 We will cut government spending.
4 We promise to keep interest rates low.
5 We want to reduce VAT.
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Choose a role, then use a word from each box to talk about your future plans.
Student: “I plan to reduce my spending on coffee”

Your choice

Possible roles:
Student / CEO / Environmentalist / Politician / Parent / Mayor of the city
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If you were the mayor of your city,…
what problem would you address?
what solutions would you offer?

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Present your ideas to your group:

I’d like to focus on the problem of…

I propose that we…

Which mayor would you vote for?

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What have you learned from today’s lesson?

What did you find interesting/not interesting?

What do you need more practice with?

Did you participate fully?

Did you achieve your aims for this lesson?

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• downloaded the *.pdf with this
presentation
• saved the Zoom Chat

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