Work-Life Balance

B1 · Intermediate47 minConversation StartersLesson 3 of 9 · Outline

Aims

Goal: talk about your own work-life balance with clear opinions — using burnout, boundaries and phrases for polite disagreement.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Switching off

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Finding Balance

    Read a 282-word text about Finding Balance

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Key Vocabulary

    6 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Work-Life Language

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Fix the Mistakes

    Error-correction exercise, 5 items

  5. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your balance, your verdict

    6 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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burnoutboundariesflexibleprioritizeovertimedowntime

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