Brian’s Intermediate/Advanced ESL Teaching Corner: Increasing the Minimum Wage

Description: Students will read a dialogue between a CEO and a normal employee. They will analyze the dialogue and understand both sides of the coin in regards to increasing the minimum wage. At the end, students will decide who they agree with and why.
Age range: Upper elementary – middle school, adult
Level: Upper intermediate – advanced ESL student
VIPKID equivalent: level 6-8
Vocabulary: minimum wage, inflation, employee

Course Information

Difficulty: Advanced, Intermediate

Categories: English as a Second Language, Reading (ESL), Vocabulary

Tags: ESL

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Increasing the Minimum Wage

Students will read a dialogue between a CEO and a normal employee. They will analyze the dialogue and understand both sides of the coin in regards to increasing the minimum wage. At the end, students will decide who they agree with and why.

This lesson is part of the Pros & Cons curriculum.

If you enjoy this lesson please check out the other lessons in the series as well.

All my lessons are catered towards upper intermediate and advanced students. Every lesson in the pros and cons curriculum has been tested on with multiple students. These lessons were made based on parent expectations: conversation-based, maximizing student output, open-ended questions, and something along the lines of debate.

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Brian Erovick Author

Some may know me as Sunny’s teacher or the teacher that posted funny/random videos on Instagram. I’ve been an educator since 2011. I taught with VIPKID for 5 years (17000 classes). I was represented in VIPKID’s 7th year anniversary. All my lessons are catered towards upper intermediate and advanced students. Every lesson in the pros and cons curriculum has been tested on with multiple students. These lessons were made based on parent expectations: conversation-based, maximizing student output, open-ended questions, and something along the lines of debate.

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Brian Erovick

I love making my own lessons that are catered towards the interest of my students. When I think of my own language learning experiences, I really enjoy learning through comic books and cartoons. I try to bring those elements into my lessons while still keeping them challenging at the same time.