When a Nine-Year-Old Sold Out in Fifteen Minutes
Grammar: Rhetorical structures and discourse management
A Level 6 English lesson exploring business.
What's in this lesson
A Level 6 (proficiency) ESL lesson on business, practising rhetorical structures and discourse management. The worksheet has a reading, target vocabulary and discussion questions.
From the reading: The Nine-Year-Old Who Sold Out in Fifteen Minutes
At precisely 2pm each afternoon, a queue forms along a clifftop road in Kilkee, a small seaside town on the western edge of County Clare, Ireland. The people waiting are not there for a view — though the view is extraordinary — but for eggs: fresh, free-range eggs sold from a painted wooden box by a nine-year-old named Paudie Murray. His operation, branded Ubh by Paudie — ubh being the Irish word for egg — has sold out in as little as fifteen minutes, attracted customers from Galway, Pennsylvania, and Texas, and accumulated more than 15,000 Instagram followers in a matter of months. The box itself is unmanned. The cash is left on trust. The whole enterprise, in other words, runs on honesty.
Vocabulary
- along
- in
- into
- out
Discussion questions
- Have you ever built something small that became bigger than expected?
- Do you think children can run genuine businesses?
- Would you trust a box on the street to collect money honestly?
When a Nine-Year-Old Sold Out in Fifteen Minutes
Grammar: Rhetorical structures and discourse management
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