Disagreeing with Your Boss
A video-led B2 lesson built on an HBR guide to disagreeing with a senior person, with gist and detail listening, vocabulary and expressions work, and a private-meeting role-play about an unrealistic deadline. Suits professionals who need to challenge decisions made by managers or clients.
Print-ready A4 PDF · teacher's notes and answer key included
What's inside
- Warm-up discussion
- Vocabulary matching
- Multiple-choice listening for gist
- Listening gap-fill
- Sentence completion
- Pair discussion
- Role-play
- Action planning
- Reflection
By the end, learners can
- Identify the main advice in a structured video on disagreeing with a boss
- Complete extracts from the video with the speaker's exact words
- Use vocabulary about power, confrontation and disagreement
- Use expressions to ask permission to disagree and to stay humble yet firm
- Disagree constructively with a superior in a private meeting and agree a decision
Skills: Listening · Speaking · Vocabulary · Writing
Suits: Managers · Project managers · Team leaders
Language practised: Disagreeing diplomatically · Asking permission to disagree · Restating someone's idea before responding · Linking an opinion to a shared goal · Presenting a case with facts · Deferring to a decision-maker
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