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Elon Musk - Reading Worksheet, Activities & Full Lesson Plan

Elon Musk reading lesson for advanced ESL learners and English classes: students discuss opening questions, watch a linked hyperloop video, read a biographical article and answer comprehension questions.
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Updated Oct 26, 2026

Subject
ELA, Language Development, ESL
Topic
ESL , ESL reading
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Teach your students about this legendary inventor and businessman with this high-quality worksheet. This Elon Musk worksheet and lesson plan has pre-reading activities, reading analysis, vocab, discussions and youtube clips.

Great for ESL/ELL classrooms or English classes.

Grade / Proficiency level.

My reading materials are suitable for upper-intermediate or advanced ESL learners (B2/C1). They would also be suitable for grades 6-8. The following is the first paragraph for you to gauge the level.

"How much difference can one person make to the world? Well, if you’re Elon Musk, a significant amount! The South African-born entrepreneur has caused upheaval in a number of the world’s key industries. Listed as Time’s most influential person of 2021, he is on a one-man mission to make the world we live in a better place.

Initially making his fortune through internet start-ups such as Paypal, in the late 90’s, he first garnered international attention when he created the aerospace and space transport services company, SpaceX."

Includes FULL lesson plan

✅ Pre-task Discussion - engage your students and activate their schema with interesting and unique discussion questions.

✅ Links to Youtube clips for linked activities - test your students’ listening skills

✅ Skimming and Scanning Reading Activities - improve these key reading skills with these reading comprehension questions

✅ Full Lesson Plan - save time on planning with an easy-to-follow lesson plan

✅ Vocabulary Review - build your students' vocabulary in this vocabulary review

✅ Comprehension Check - check full understanding and comprehension with these questions

✅ Discussion/debate - a post-reading discussion or debate activity to work on speaking skills

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In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Answer comprehension questions about an informational biography
  • Discuss social and ethical issues raised by a text
  • Present research findings on an inventor

Teaching tips

  • The two linked YouTube videos need internet access in class, and the article uses UK spellings such as colonise and criticised.

Skills covered

  • Identifying bias — judging how the article portrays Elon Musk

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