Innovation or Efficiency? Finding the Balance
A B1–B2 mini-debate lesson on balancing innovation and efficiency at work, with a reading, vocabulary work, discussion, a pro/con debate, a six-role meeting role-play and a short opinion paragraph. Suits intermediate learners who need to discuss workplace change and defend a position.
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 on innovation versus efficiency at work
- Use ten workplace-strategy words in gap-fill and odd-one-out tasks
- Give and defend opinions on workplace rules and creativity
- Agree, partly agree and disagree politely in a debate and group discussion
- Write a short structured opinion paragraph with reasons and an example
Skills: Speaking · Reading · Writing · Vocabulary
Suits: Managers · HR · Operations
Language practised: Giving opinions · Agreeing and partly agreeing · Disagreeing politely · Asking for clarification · Persuading · Summarising and concluding · Justifying a group decision
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