Accountability vs Trust: What Matters More?
A mini-debate lesson on trust versus accountability at work, with a reading, vocabulary practice, discussion, a two-topic debate, a senior-leadership role-play and a short opinion paragraph. Suits B1–B2 professionals who need to argue a position and discuss workplace policy.
Print-ready A4 PDF · teacher's notes and answer key included
What's inside
- Warm-up discussion
- Vocabulary matching
- Reading
- Comprehension questions
- Gap-fill
- Odd one out
- Small-group discussion
- Debate
- Role-play
- Opinion paragraph writing
By the end, learners can
- Read and understand a text on trust versus accountability at work
- Use ten topic words such as oversight, payoff and calibrate in context
- Give and defend opinions in a structured debate
- Agree, partly agree and disagree politely when discussing policy
- Write a short opinion paragraph with reasons and an example
Skills: Speaking · Reading · Writing · Vocabulary
Suits: Managers · HR · Finance · Compliance · Team leaders
Language practised: Giving an opinion · Agreeing and partly agreeing · Disagreeing politely · Asking for clarification · Persuading · Summarising and concluding · Justifying a decision
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