This lesson plan has been based on a podcast from BBC Learning English.

Pre-listening Activities

1. Picture Discussion (5 minutes):
   • Show the students pictures of various popular chocolate bars (e.g., KitKat, Snickers, Mars). Ask them:
     • “Which of these chocolates do you like? Why?”
     • “What do you think is the most popular chocolate in the UK?”
     • “What is your favorite chocolate flavor?”
2. Word Prediction (5 minutes):
   • Write the following words on the board: chocolate, factory, job, consumer, invention, flop.
   • Ask students to work in pairs and predict how these words might be related to the listening activity.
3. Quick Poll (3 minutes):
   • Ask students to vote on the answer to this week’s question: What is Britain’s best-selling chocolate bar?
   • Options: KitKat, Snickers, or Mars. See which chocolate bar they think is the most popular.

Vocabulary Activities

1. Match the Definitions (10 minutes):
   • Prepare a worksheet where students have to match the vocabulary words from the script to their definitions.
     • Words: a dream (come true), launch, consumer demand, hit the shelves, go for (something), a flop.
     • Definitions:
       1. Introduce something new to the public.
       2. A complete failure.
       3. Something you really want that seems unlikely but happens.
       4. Become available for purchase.
       5. Choose something.
       6. Measurement of how much people want to buy a product.
2. Fill in the Gap (10 minutes):
   • Create sentences with gaps where students have to fill in the missing vocabulary word.
     • “When a new product ____, people can buy it in shops.” (Answer: hits the shelves)
     • “The new chocolate bar was a ____. Nobody liked it.” (Answer: flop)
     • “I will ____ the chocolate ice cream for dessert.” (Answer: go for)
3. Mime and Guess (8 minutes):
   • Have students mime one of the vocabulary words, and their classmates guess which word they are acting out (e.g., miming tasting chocolate for a dream come true, or failing for a flop).

Discussion Questions

1. Before Listening (5 minutes):
   • “If you could create your own chocolate bar, what ingredients would you use?”
   • “Do you think being a chocolate inventor is an easy or hard job? Why?”
2. After Listening (10 minutes):
   • “What surprised you about Helle Anttila’s job?”
   • “What do you think would make a chocolate product a flop? Can you think of any flavours that might fail?”
   • “How would you feel if your favourite chocolate hit the shelves?”
   • “Do you think consumer demand is important for creating new products? Why or why not?”