The Future of Work and Society

B2 · Upper-intermediate57 minConversation StartersLesson 8 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: discuss how automation and social change will reshape work — predictions hedged, trade-offs weighed, and your own future faced honestly.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Twenty years from now

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: What Comes Next?

    Read a 456-word text about What Comes Next?

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Key Vocabulary

    6 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Future of Work Concepts

    Matching exercise, 6 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Discussing the Future

    Word-ordering exercise, 4 items

  5. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Debating Universal Basic Income

    Role-play: You are in a discussion group debating whether Universal Basic Income should be introduced in your country. (4 lines)

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Where do you stand?

    6 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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