The Four-Day Work Week

C1 · Advanced57 minConversation StartersLesson 2 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: debate the four-day work week with real debate moves — conceding what the trials show, pushing back where the case overreaches, and hedging what nobody can prove.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: The motion on the table

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Reimagining the Work Week

    Read a 413-word text about Reimagining the Work Week

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Key Vocabulary

    6 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Fix the Argument Errors

    Error-correction exercise, 5 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Build Debate Sentences

    Word-ordering exercise, 5 items

  5. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Debating the Four-Day Week

    Role-play: You are participating in a panel discussion on whether the four-day work week should become the new standard. (4 lines)

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Take the floor

    6 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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