Articulate Your Thoughts
A video-led B2 lesson on Charles Duhigg's 'matching principle', with gist and detail listening, vocabulary and idiom practice, and a manager/team member role-play about matching the type of conversation. Suits professionals who want to listen better and handle emotionally charged workplace conversations.
Print-ready A4 PDF · teacher's notes and answer key included
What's inside
- Warm-up discussion
- Vocabulary matching
- Multiple-choice gist listening
- Gap-fill listening
- Gap-fill with word bank
- Pair discussion
- Role-play
- Action planning
- Written reflection
By the end, learners can
- Identify gist and detail in an authentic talk on communication
- Match ten topic words and idiomatic chunks to their meanings and use them in context
- Distinguish what kind of conversation a colleague needs
- Use matching language to find out a colleague's needs before moving on to solutions
- Plan how to apply matching techniques in real workplace conversations
Skills: Listening · Speaking · Vocabulary · Writing
Suits: Managers · Team leaders
Language practised: Finding out what someone needs from a conversation · Showing empathy · Offering to help or just listen · Moving a conversation on to solutions · Identifying miscommunication
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