Flexible Hours
A B1–B2 mini-debate lesson on flexible working hours, with a reading, vocabulary work, pro/con debate topics, a management-team role-play and a short opinion paragraph. Suits intermediate professionals who need to discuss and argue about 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
- Group discussion
- Pro/con debate
- Role-play
- Opinion paragraph writing
By the end, learners can
- Read and understand a text on flexible scheduling and work-life balance
- Use ten topic words such as flextime, boundary and burnout
- Argue for and against flexible working in a structured debate
- Agree, partly agree and disagree politely using set expressions
- Write a short opinion paragraph with a clear opinion, two reasons and an example
Skills: Speaking · Reading · Vocabulary · Writing
Suits: Managers · HR
Language practised: Giving an opinion · Agreeing and partly agreeing · Disagreeing politely · Asking for clarification · Persuading · Summarising and concluding · Proposing compromises
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