Historic: Bitcoin Surges past $100,000
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Level:
Upper-Intermediate & higher -
Estimated classroom time:
90 min
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Price:
$0.10
What you get
This upper-intermediate ESL workbook brings current financial news into the classroom, using Bitcoin’s $100,000 milestone to explore economic trends, investment strategies, and crypto-related vocabulary. Students engage in high-level tasks including listening, debate, case analysis, and collaborative decision-making – all while building the language skills needed to talk confidently about risk, finance, and innovation.
The vocabulary section helps students develop precise and professional language around finance, investment, and risk. With terms like “to tout,” “acquire,” “immutable,” “proponent,” and “volatility,” students learn to discuss crypto markets confidently, interpret financial trends, and challenge ideas with fluency and accuracy.
✅ Warm-up discussion
✅ Video-based task (watching a news clip)
✅ Vocabulary preview (brainstorming synonyms)
✅ Paraphrasing activity (rewriting sentences)
✅ Business case simulation (role-playing an investment professional's strategy)
✅ Listening activity
✅ Creative brainstorming task