ISSUE 007
Four-Day Workweek ESL Lesson
Would working less make life better?
A ready-to-teach B1–B2 ESL lesson exploring the four-day workweek, work-life balance and productivity, with reading, listening, vocabulary, discussion and critical-thinking activities.
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Collection 01 includes Issues 006–010.
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ABOUT THIS LESSON
About This Four-Day Workweek ESL Lesson
The five-day working week feels normal, but a growing number of workplaces have experimented with giving employees the same pay for fewer working days.
This B1–B2 lesson explores whether working less could improve productivity and wellbeing. Students consider evidence from four-day week trials while also examining practical problems for hospitals, shops, factories and other workplaces that cannot simply close for an extra day.
Students decide which workers could realistically receive a four-day week, prepare a case to persuade a manager to try it, and finish by giving a balanced written opinion.
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WHAT'S INCLUDED
What's Included in the Four-Day Workweek Lesson?
- Magazine-style B1–B2 ESL student worksheet
- Original Four-Day Workweek reading and audio recording
- Vocabulary and reading comprehension activities
- Productivity, wellbeing and working-hours discussion
- Who Gets It? critical-thinking activity
- Workplace persuasion speaking challenge
- 150–200 word opinion-writing task
- Teacher guide and complete answer key
- Ready-to-use classroom presentation
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