Leadership: Authority vs Collaboration
A B1–B2 mini-debate lesson on leadership styles, moving from a reading on authority versus collaboration to group discussion, a pro/con debate, a team-meeting role-play and an opinion paragraph. Suits intermediate learners who manage or work in teams.
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
- Opinion paragraph writing
By the end, learners can
- Read and understand a text on authority versus collaboration in leadership
- Use ten leadership and decision-making vocabulary items in context
- Agree, partly agree and disagree politely when discussing leadership styles
- Argue a position for or against a leadership approach in a mini-debate
- Write a short structured opinion paragraph with reasons and an example
Skills: Speaking · Reading · Writing · Vocabulary
Suits: Managers · Team leaders · HR · Project managers
Language practised: Giving opinions · Agreeing and partly agreeing · Disagreeing politely · Asking for clarification · Persuading · Summarising and concluding
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