Creative Prompts Based on The Founder – B2 Film & Song Study Pack
Business, Ethics & the American Dream – through Film, Song & Critical Thinking
16 pages – colour and printer-friendly | B2 level

Take your students on a critical journey through the fast-food empire that shaped modern business. This interdisciplinary pack offers high-level questions, vocabulary, ethics discussions, creative tasks, and role plays based on The Founder and its connection to real-world capitalism.

What’s Inside:
1. Film Work: The Founder
• Pre-viewing song reflection & lyric analysis
• Film-based discussion tasks (ethics, ambition, marketing)
• Idiom hunt + interpretation from the script
• Opinion writing prompts (e.g., Was Ray Kroc a visionary or a thief?)
• Creative tasks: character social media, ethical franchise design
• Role play: McDonald’s vs. Ray Kroc business deal

2. Text Analysis
• Vocabulary from Peter Bradshaw’s film review (The Guardian)
• Critical reading questions linking capitalism and politics

Perfect for:
• B2 ESL learners
• Cross-curricular business, economics, ethics, or media literacy lessons
• Thought-provoking film units

Bring fast food and fast deals into your classroom—critically!
Download this resource and challenge your students to rethink success, power, and the American Dream.