Is AI a Threat to Jobs or an Opportunity?
A B1–B2 debate lesson on whether AI threatens or creates jobs, built around a reading on entry-level hiring. It includes a vocabulary strand, FOR/AGAINST debate motions, an executive-committee role-play on freezing graduate hiring and a CEO memo. Suits managers and senior professionals.
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
- Debate
- Role-play
- Memo writing
By the end, learners can
- Read and understand an argumentative text on AI and employment
- Use ten words and expressions for workforce change, such as headcount, displace and pipeline
- Argue for and against motions on entry-level hiring and retraining
- Defend a position on a graduate hiring decision in an executive committee role-play
- Write a short memo recommending a course of action with two arguments and a response to an opposing view
Skills: Speaking · Reading · Writing · Vocabulary
Suits: Managers · HR · Finance · Senior leaders
Language practised: Giving opinions · Persuading · Agreeing and partly agreeing · Disagreeing politely · Asking for clarification · Summarising and concluding · Making a written recommendation
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