Learning at Work: Who Pays?
A B1–B2 mini-debate lesson on whether companies should pay for employees' further education, with a reading, vocabulary work, a pro/con debate, a six-role meeting role-play and an opinion paragraph. Suits intermediate professionals who need to argue a position and discuss workplace training.
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 about who should pay for workplace learning
- Use ten training and investment vocabulary items in context
- Give opinions and agree or disagree politely in discussion and debate
- Argue a pro or con position on funding employee education
- Write a short opinion paragraph with reasons and an example
Skills: Speaking · Reading · Writing · Vocabulary
Suits: Managers · HR · Finance
Language practised: Giving opinions · Agreeing and partly agreeing · Disagreeing politely · Asking for clarification · Persuading · Summarising and concluding
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