ESL WORKSHEET - How companies started

LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS
COMPANY HISTORY

LinguaHouse
Apr. 10, 2024

Level: Elementary (A1-A2)
Type of English: Business English
Tags: Companies and Jobs; Business People; Management; Business Skills; Describing A Company; Starting And Developing A Business; Past Tenses; Irregular Verbs; 16-18 Years Old; 18+ Years Old; Situation Based
Publication date: 04/10/2024

This lesson looks at how different companies started. Students will read an article about Patagonia Inc. and its founder. They will also listen to a description of the beginnings of The Body Shop and the work of Anita Roddick, its founder. Students will do some work on verbs in the past simple, as well as complete exercises on vocabulary and comprehension (by Joe Wilson).

• CLICK HERE to download the student’s worksheet in American English.
• CLICK HERE to download the teacher’s lesson plan in American English.
• CLICK HERE to download the student’s worksheet in British English.
• CLICK HERE to download the teacher’s lesson plan in British English.
• CLICK HERE to download/listen to the audios (Am/Br English).

AUDIO TRANSCRIPT

Narrator: In 1976, Anita Roddick started The Body Shop in Brighton in the UK. At the beginning, she only had 25 products. She did not have enough bottles to put her products in, so began a policy of refilling the bottles for customers when they brought them back. In 1977, Roddick bought a second store by selling 50% of her business. By 1984, The Body Shop had 138 stores, 87 of them were outside the United Kingdom. In March 2006, the French company L’Oréal bought the company for $829.9 million. Anita Roddick and her husband made over $165 million from the deal. In 2017, L’Oréal sold the company to Natura, a Brazilian company, for over $1 billion.

Adapted from: https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/business-english/company-history. Accessed on April 11, 2024. © 2008–2024 LinguaHouse.com. All rights reserved.