Office Gossip

B1 · Intermediate57 minGrammar & FluencyLesson 3 of 5 · Outline

Aims

One sentence travels through six people and comes back unrecognisable. Follow the rumour and repair it.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Tell Me What They Said

    3 warm-up questions

  1. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: The Language of Rumours

    7 items

  2. Reading10 min

    Reading: Six People, One Sentence

    Read a 220-word text about Six People, One Sentence

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: One Step Back

    Gap-fill exercise, 8 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Sam's Message Thread

    Error-correction exercise, 6 items

  5. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Play the Rumour Game

    Role-play: Passing a message along the office chain (8 lines)

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: What Really Happened?

    4 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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rumourto spreadto exaggerateto denyto confirmconfidentialto overhear

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