Business: Follow or Set Trends?
A B1–B2 mini-debate lesson on whether businesses should follow or set trends, with a reading, vocabulary work, debate topics and a six-role strategy meeting role-play. Suits intermediate learners in business, marketing and management contexts.
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
- Mini-debate
- Role-play
- Opinion paragraph writing
By the end, learners can
- Read and understand a text about following versus setting business trends
- Use ten trend- and consumer-related vocabulary items in context
- Practise agreeing, partly agreeing and disagreeing politely in discussion
- Argue a position for or against in a mini-debate
- Write a short structured opinion paragraph with reasons and an example
Skills: Speaking · Reading · Writing · Vocabulary
Suits: Managers · Marketing · Product design · Finance · Sales · Sustainability
Language practised: Giving opinions · Agreeing and partly agreeing · Disagreeing politely · Asking for clarification · Persuading · Summarising and concluding
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