Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Life

B2 · Upper-intermediate47 minConversation StartersLesson 7 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: discuss everyday ethical dilemmas honestly — competing values weighed, easy answers resisted, and your own choices examined without flinching.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: The right thing

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Navigating Right and Wrong

    Read a 426-word text about Navigating Right and Wrong

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Key Vocabulary

    6 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Ethics in Context

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Correct the Ethical Arguments

    Error-correction exercise, 5 items

  5. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Where do you stand?

    6 discussion questions

Open the full lesson

The remaining 5 stages of this lesson, with the procedure, the examples and the exercises, are included with Starter, along with the interactive version you can teach from. Lesson 1 of this course is free: the full plan is on this site, and a free account opens it in the interactive player.

Start with lesson 1, freeSee Starter pricing

Target vocabulary

In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.

ethicaldilemmaconsciencewhistlebloweraccountabilityexploitation

This plan comes from the Deep Discussions course in the Tuton library. Browse all free lesson plans.