Workplace Mistakes: Punish or Protect?
A B1–B2 mini-debate lesson on whether employees should be punished for honest workplace mistakes, with a reading, vocabulary work, a pro/con debate, an emergency-meeting role-play and an opinion paragraph. Suits intermediate professionals who need to discuss accountability and argue a case.
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
- Pro/con debate
- Role-play
- Opinion paragraph writing
By the end, learners can
- Understand an opinion text about workplace mistakes and accountability
- Use ten topic words about honesty, punishment and trust
- Argue for or against penalising honest mistakes in a debate
- Express, support and challenge opinions using functional phrases
- Write an opinion paragraph with a clear view, two reasons and an example
Skills: Speaking · Reading · Writing · Vocabulary
Suits: Managers · HR
Language practised: Giving opinions · Agreeing and partly agreeing · Disagreeing diplomatically · Asking for clarification · Persuading · Summarising and concluding · Justifying a decision
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